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> Is that the dev board Level1Tech had on his channel?

I don't know who he is. This is a DevTerm with their R-01 board, an Allwinner D1 RISC-V SOC, single-core, 1GB RAM. ( https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm The RISC-V chip is not just their cheapest option, I can also legitimately say that I use a cyberdeck with an experimental CPU. Plus it runs cooler with no heatsink than the ARM cores run with the fan blasting, lasts at least 8 hours on battery.) I have produced a Slackware image for it, that's what's running there. ( https://media.freespeechextremist.com/rvl/full/17b30212e33512e8aa6e861a4adb9744b4a70a7b2d6febab72df4b0816f2f0e8 )

Except that I haven't attempted to run a browser on it (besides w3m), it's speedy enough, though most of what I use it for is drawterm to talk to Plan 9 and ssh to talk to Linux and run xpdf (shoved a 128GB uSD onto it), awk-based wiki for note-taking, etc. Like, everything I use compiles and runs fast enough on it because most of the stuff I use was already fast in the 90s. irb takes a few seconds to give me a prompt, that's the only real annoyance, but I already use awk or dc for the 90% case.

> Ampere has some reasonably priced 128 core ARM kits:

$4500 is probably reasonably priced for 128 cores and 96GB of RAM but it's still a little pricier than building out a cluster. A Turing Pi 2 has four slots, 16 of their RK1s would be 128 cores, the 8GB model you'd end up with more total RAM and for four boards and eight chips, it'd run you 4*$200+16*$150=$3200 and you end up with more total RAM. (The 32GB RAM ones are $300, so for 512GB total you'd have to shell out $5600.) That's up-front, though: building it out piecemeal is an option if it's a cluster.
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