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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

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Post by numbsafari »

gjvc wrote: post #105

0xide Computer Company deserves to do well. This is a solid private-cloud play aimed at those corporations (probably mainly financials, but other sectors too I'm sure...) who don't want to outsource to the likes of AWS / GCP.

Healthcare is definitely another.

Government, too (especially non-US).

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Post by ptomato »

kaliszad wrote: post #49
ptomato wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks like they're doing 2u half width nodes, so I'd strongly suspect each node is 1TB of ram, one epyc 7713p, and 10 3.2TB u.2/u.3 drives. eta: also suspect 30TB total just means they're leaving 64GB ram for the hypervisor OS on each node.

Leaving that RAM for ZFS L2 ARC perhaps? I don't think they would use Illumos as the hypervisor OS without also using OpenZFS with it. They also need some for management, the control UI, a DB for metrics and more. Btw. if I count correctly, they have 20 SSD slots per node (if a node is full width) and 16 nodes. They would need 2 TB to reach 1 PB of "raw" capacity with the obvious redundancy overhead of ~ 20%. It is a…

I'm fairly confident the nodes are half width; if you look at the latches it very much would appear you can pull out half of every 2u at once, and if you look at the rear there's 2 net cables going into each side.

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Post by goodpoint »

tyingq wrote: post #79
discardable_dan wrote: post #6

I don't know if I have a use for something like this, but the website aesthetics are just plain awesome.

Yeah, I noticed that too. The green wireframe looking stuff is actually text in spans/divs next to, or overlayed on pictures. The little "nodes" are this character, for example: ⎕. The effect is pretty unique.

Looks like simple ascii art, typically used by CLI tools.

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Post by dsr_ »

StreamBright wrote: post #78
dsr_ wrote: post #75

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Few companies buy on pure performance. Right now, AMD has the performance kings and the price/performance kings. Intel could win price/performance, but they would need to cannibalize their own low-end and mid-range market. If they could make a good bet that they would have high yield in one more cycle, that would make sense. If they don't think that will happen, there's nothing much that will save them, and they're e…

I thought M1 had the best price/performance numbers, too bad Apple does not sell CPUs.

Or, more relevant to this discussion, servers.

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Post by nickik »

dcolkitt wrote: post #28
lumost wrote: post #5

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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…

That reminds me a lot of the Sun Microsystem mega servers from 20 years ago. Those were kind of the cure-all solutions to high scalability web services before Google et al. pioneered cloud-like services on commodity software.

Its kind of like if you took those servers and put a cloud like software layer on top and made many of them work together.
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