Why would you build a Raspberry Pi Cluster?

Everyone seems to be asking, so I figured I'd answer. I'll explain what I use my small Pi clusters for, and what some other people use them for.

But also, why cluster in the first place? Can't you just buy an EPYC 64-core CPU and an RTX 3080 and have all the processing power you'd ever need?

Maybe. But color me skeptical!

If you're wondering about the giant cluster shown at the end of the video, check out the full video for the world's largest Pi cluster on the Oracle Developers channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbVcRQQ9PNw

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Contents:

00:00 - The motivation
00:27 - What a Pi cluster CAN'T do
01:35 - What a Pi cluster CAN do
02:47 - But why a cluster?
05:05 - But why a Pi Cluster?
06:54 - Performance isn't everything
08:06 - Enterprise use cases
08:45 - But there's no ECC RAM!
09:39 - Final thoughts and outtakes