| ▲ | Bric3d 8 hours ago |
| They'll throw this together but still not sell you something you can stick in a rack ? |
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| ▲ | Telemakhos 8 hours ago | parent [-] |
| That seems to be the point: you leverage existing workstations on your corporate network and run compute batches at night while they're idle. You don't have to buy any extra servers for your low-priority AI workloads. |
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| ▲ | jprd 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | We were doing this decades ago with engineer's HP C3600s under their desks. It wasn't AI, just low-priority HPC / fluid stuff batched out to hundreds of workstations. | | |
| ▲ | macintux 8 hours ago | parent [-] | | That was the original pitch for Ian Murdock's Progeny startup in the late 90s: a Linux-based distributed filesystem for corporate desktops to boot into overnight for distributed computing. |
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