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by kryptiskt 39 days ago
There are no beefy RISC-V servers. There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers.
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Beowulf time?

I had been maintaining a fork of the U of KY BDR with SBCs and Arm devices in mind, might need to revive it for RISC-V.

> There are no beefy 32-bit ARM servers.

"Ampere processors natively support both 32 & 64 bit Android applications and require no binary translation for maximum instance density" ... "Run up to 120+ 3D cloud game instances per socket" ... "DRAM: 384GB - 512GB"

https://amperecomputing.com/solutions/arm-native

I've not personally tested this, but it very much appears that just like x86, you can use a 64-bit ARM kernel that has 32-bit support enabled to run a 32-bit userspace, likely compatible with docker, or even just in a chroot. Then with 120 cores, "make -j 120"