What the NUC Kind of Cluster is This??? 

@Wendell TRY THIS ^^ !!

I used to have a single big box with a 6800K and dual Titan Xps for simulations, but I remember the computer science lab in my university having a stack of 1L office PCs with i5 3450Ts. IIRC there were 3 stacks of 6 each for 18 nodes or 72 CPU cores and a combined 144GB of RAM. It was really funny hearing them all spool up their fans. You could tell how hard somebody was hitting them by how many of them spun up.

At some point HP released Open Single System Image (openSSI) Linux Cluster Project, which was also kind of interesting, but sadly didn't seem to go anywhere.

Thunderbolt adoption was slowed by Intel's exclusive-use deal with Apple when it was first released. I'm surprised that it hasn't taken off since then.

Yeah lack of USB4 even on expensive boards is simply horrible, to add just regular type-C adoption is also horrible, everyone slacking.

ehhh idk, we are using docks these days at work for employees with their usb C connection points and honestly... I thought usb C was suppose to last long but it kinda sucks, they become so weak, never had that with usb A or B.

@@Decenium agree, had a couple usbc ports bend in ways usba never would

When it breaks you cant even run around to get replacement parts. While a desktop computer can be repaired easily and cheaply.

USB also supports networking as does Bluetooth.

@@autohmae How would you use USB?

@@physx_yt1062 for this application ? I wouldn't maybe USB4 is good enough. Just saying that all of them have IP support.

It feels like the logical endpoint of Thunderbolt. Thunderbolt is PCIe, which is basically a packet-switched network, so why not use it as the carrier for another packet-switched network (IP)?

Thunderbolt is not USB.

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I just imagine youtube sending firsts certificate

Like so many Intel developments over the last decade or so

mostly no, closer to 20gbpa

@@Level1Techs Thanks for the reply. I'm just very interested in power consumption lately, now that I'm living off grid. My old-ish enterprise strategy is no longer cutting the mustard.

Level1Linux probably does not have the algorithmic reach that the main channel does, so this will do better here.

Spanning tree protocol essentially works by logically cutting links until the network has no loops. You'd end up with one node handling all the traffic between the others, even though they have a direct link going unused. That also adds the full latency to all the forwarded traffic. Running one IP per NUC is fine, as long as the routing is correct (multipath for redundancy).

P2P is better. STP bad

still pretty high, you are looking at Xeon D boards

The Xeon chips aren't APUs too, right? So I'd need an Intel GPU w/ Quick Sync support as well? Seems like a lot of PCIe connectivity to give up just to gain Quick Sync, that's a shame.

​@@FrenziedManbeastIntel does make some consumer chips with ECC but you'll probably not get 6 hyperthreaded cores (they only do this on low end chips where there's no competing Xeon), so you'll need to decide if 4 high performance cores will do compared to say 6 older generation, more power hungry cores. Do you need QuickSync specifically though, or just hardware accelerated encoding? Because AMD's 7000 series will run really efficiently when underclocked slightly, is readily available in 6 core configurations for *relatively* cheap, they all support ECC and have onboard GPUs so they *should* be able to do hardware encode (do double check this first but as long as the encoders are there AMD GPUs are generally well supported on Linux).

@@bosstowndynamics5488 I should have specified that I'm looking for fully Registered ECC. I'm still curious as to what the lowest Watt + lowest cost solution would be. I understand that many consumer CPUs support ECC on the data sheet, but finding motherboards with support for Registered ECC for those chips seems...difficult? Impossible?

Many i3s support ECC RAM.

Three node is a practical limitation because there aren't enough Thunderbolt ports available.

​@@CataclysmZA Only for full interconnection. You can still run a ring topology with two paths between any nodes, though forwarding through networks with this poor performance isn't going to be fun.

2x10gigabit for a little setup when you first get the nucs vs 2x2.5gigabit oob is an easy choice for me, that 10gigabit is gonna be much better for me

If you are not using the thunderbolt it's not worth the 100-150$ markup over similar devices without thundetbolt. Also if you use both ethernet ports to do this then what network interface is used to talk to the outside world?

​@@marcogenovesi8570 perhaps talk to the outside world vua a wifi card in a slot where a 2nd ssd would normally go

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