Comment on Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine?
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 1 week ago
Just throwing this in here as another thing to consider - instruction set. From a quick check (so I’m happy to be told I’m wrong) the Celeron & Pentium options don’t support AVX. That means some stuff - and I’m giving a hard stare at MongoDB here, but there will be others - is not going to run, or at best you’re going to be either stuck with old versions or recompiling yourself from source.
(I don’t know if any of your apps require Mongo or AVX, but I was bitten by this in the past and it was one of the main reasons I eventually upgraded one of my small clusters.)
theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
I think I never heard about AVX before, what is it? And is it a newer technology or why do they both don’t support it?
timwa@lemmy.snowgoons.ro 1 week ago
Advanced Vector Extensions instruction set; introduced with Sandy Bridge in 2011, but not included in Pentium/Celeron branded processors even after then for reasons best known only to Intel.
Mongo is the application that has most irritated me by requiring it, but I doubt it’s the only one.