The collab nobody knew we needed. I took my 6-node Raspberry Pi cluster to @ServeTheHomeVideo and faced it off against a 128-core monster ARM server.

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Mentioned in this video:

- ServeTheHome (website): https://www.servethehome.com
- ServeTheHome (YouTube):    / servethehomevideo  
- The video Patrick has is the "Supermicro ARS-210ME-FNR", with the M128-30 CPU
- DeskPi Super6c [Amazon]: https://amzn.to/3AH8kNh
- DeskPi Super6c [Direct]: https://deskpi.com/collections/deskpi...
- DeskPi Super6c Mini ITX case [Amazon]: https://amzn.to/3XnJxHP
- DeskPi Super6c Mini ITX case [Direct]: https://deskpi.com/collections/deskpi...
- Guide for Raspberry Pi CM4 NVMe boot: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...
- DeskPi Super6c Ceph Storage Cluster video:    • 6-in-1: Build a 6-node Ceph cluster o...  
- Top500 Ansible Automated Benchmark Playbook: https://github.com/geerlingguy/top500...
- Blog post with more benchmarking results: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/202...

Contents:

00:00 - 24 cores - but not the same
00:52 - Apples to Apples
03:50 - Size comparison
04:52 - ARM in the cloud? Edge?
05:55 - ARM v ARM: top500 showdown
06:44 - New new bramble
07:38 - No time for microSD, we go NVMe
08:56 - Super6c, Super improved
10:27 - Linpack on the Pis
12:02 - Linpack on the Ampere Altra Max
12:46 - Price to performance
13:53 - Benchmarking methodology
14:56 - Is ARM the most efficient?
16:46 - GPUs: efficiency kings
17:48 - Platform maturity vs x86
19:38 - So what's the verdict?
20:39 - Surprise Stolen Supermicro