Comment by xs83
15 days ago
Yeah thats ridiculously expensive for a home lab IMO, the thinkcenters can be picked up for a couple of hundred bucks used and a T400 runs about the same. So $400 for an AI capable home bench would run $1200 for a 3 node cluster - I can live with that.
My 5 node Rpi5 Cluster ran $1500 with NVMe Hats and a PoE hat and cant do any GPU work :(
The AGX Orin has over five times as many CUDA cores as a t400, and the dev kit is designed to do pretty much exactly what it sounded like you wanted. The other path does offer the opportunity to wire together a pile of new and used equipment and generate heat with it, so if that’s your idea of fun, I guess the choice is clear.