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Interesting, I run a small cluster of 4 mini pcs (22 cores total). I think it should be comparable to the aforementioned EPYC. Power load is a rounding error compared to appliances like electric iron at 1700W, etc. The impact on electrical bill is minimal as well. Idle power draw is about 5W per server, which translates to ~80 cents a month. Frankly my monitor uses more power on average than the rest of the homelab.



I'm pretty sure if you run a compute benchmark like Streams or hpgmg, the Epyc server will eat your mini pcs for breakfast.


You're probably right, I meant that the power consumption should be roughly comparable between them (due to inefficiency added by each mini).


I think results would be rather comparable.


That would at the very least require a hefty interconnect, I'd guess at least 25Gbit with RoCE.




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