Sam Westrick @shwestrick.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I believe the idea (in ~2015) was: if you’re considering purchasing a car, consider spending your money on this 72-core 1TB multicore machine instead. They’re a similar price! 100
Sam Westrick @shwestrick.bsky.social · 23/10/2025These days, you can buy such a machine for ~$3K. That’s a lot of compute per buck. Medium-scale parallelism is quite affordable (“Medium scale” meaning large-ish single-node.) 000
