alt Hacker NewsSo the point of distributed compute is to reduce the compute needed? I’ve generally found that distributed compute requires more compute than vertical scaling while getting clobbered by network bandwidth / latency.
Theoretically with 2 to 10x compute required and in practice 100 to 500x
The point of distributed computing is to do computing that you can't do on a vertically scaled system or to increase availability.
If you're doing it for other reasons it's usually a mistake.