It’s use cases might be more focused, but I’m gonna say no. At least based on the distributed database cluster that I am in the middle of building right now. When folding@home started, the processors in PS3’s were a big deal. But these days a single socket server can have 256 threads and 3TB of RAM in it. Why manage 500 servers when you could manage 4?
It’s use cases might be more focused, but I’m gonna say no. At least based on the distributed database cluster that I am in the middle of building right now. When folding@home started, the processors in PS3’s were a big deal. But these days a single socket server can have 256 threads and 3TB of RAM in it. Why manage 500 servers when you could manage 4?