And finally, its nice to see people with brains building real things with nary a mention of "blockchain".
Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022
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#13Who 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.
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#14Who 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…
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#15I kind of want one of these in my home, I wonder what the price range will be.
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#17Anyway, glad to finally get a glimpse of what Oxide has to offer. Looking forward to seeing a lot more.
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#18Estimated price?
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#19What 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?
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#20I 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?
And possibly noisy. Yes, noisy.