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Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

#11
Bravo! Better servers for people who want to own their infra. Too many people seek out cloud services just to get a modern control plane. Server "UI" has been long neglected.

And finally, its nice to see people with brains building real things with nary a mention of "blockchain".

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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Who is the target customer for this?

Cantrill has always said it's for people who want Facebook class on-premise infrastructure but don't have a $900B market cap and a hundred engineers designing and building custom boxes. Oh, and open firmware.

Can definitely see it for a company size of Dropbox, big enough to already be working with ODMs, big enough to be sensitive to the kind of headaches you get from a heterogeneous fleet of ILOM processors designed by deranged engineers.

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

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Who is the target customer for this?

This level of integration surely won't come cheap, from what I recall of Server purchasing a target price of ~200-500k per rack would be expected on a TCO of roughly 2x the rack price over 3 years. (Assuming you are buying from Quanta/SuperMicro or other commodity integrator) It's possible the prices are different now, but you would need customers looking to drop > 1 million dollars in CapEx for the management capabi…

The core customer profile appears to be aging startups that know how their software behaves and are currently way over 2k cores on AWS.

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

#17
As I understand it, Oxide is going to have deep software integration into their hardware. So the expectation isn't that the servers in this rack will be running Windows or a generic Linux distribution. In case anyone from Oxide is here, is my understanding correct? And if so, will there be a way to run a smaller version of an Oxide system, say for testing or development, without purchasing an entire rack at a time?

Anyway, glad to finally get a glimpse of what Oxide has to offer. Looking forward to seeing a lot more.

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

#19
Why are we hard coupling the hardware to the software? The whole secret of the success of M1 and ARM in servers is that lots of software has long ago stopped being hyper-aware of what hardware it is running on.

What software are we talking about anyways? It's all incredibly vague, but it seems to reach all the way into the Kubernetes sphere. Why would I run this over something I can use on my next job?

Re: Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022

#20
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I kind of want one of these in my home, I wonder what the price range will be.

“2048 x86 cores per rack” Probably a lot more than any sane person would pay for a home server. But I won’t stop you from trying! Wouldn’t it be cool to have that plugged into your local network?

I'd get one. Would connect hot side to home HVAC and just run scalability tests of my code. That'd be hot, nice and expensive.

And possibly noisy. Yes, noisy.

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