How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

Post by znpy » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 11:32 PM UTC

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> as normal for a Unix veering offtopic, did you know macOS is a certified Unix? https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3581.htm As I recall, Apple advertised macOS as a Unix without such certification, got sued, and then scrambled to implement the required features to get certification as a result. Here's the story as told by the lead engineer of the project: https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an…

This comes up rather often, and on the last significant post about it I saw on HN someone pointed out that the certification is kind of meaningless[1]. macOS poll(2) is not Unix-compliant, hasn't been since forever, yet every new version of macOS gets certified regardless. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41823078

Post by znpy » Sun, Nov 24, 2024, 9:51 AM UTC

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> the usual idle of around 5k RPM was WAY too much cooling. What does this mean? Can one actually get too much cooling? Do you get like condensation and stuff, that kind of "too much cooling" ? I'm not being snarky, i actually don't know.

It must mean cooling significantly below the target temperature, and thus wasting power to do it

Post by walrus01 » Tue, Nov 26, 2024, 6:20 PM UTC

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Companies buying massive cloud scale server hardware want to be able to choose from a dozen different Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. Apple is in no way motivated to release or sell the M3/M4 CPUs as a product that major east asia motherboard manufacturers can design their own platform for. Apple is highly invested in tightly integrated ecosystems where everything is soldered down together in one package as a co…

…Apple has made rack-mounted computers in recent history. They don’t sell chips, they sell complete boxes with rack mount hardware, motherboard and all. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/G1720LL/A/Refurbished-Mac...