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Weird there’s no mention of GPU at all when you’d think that’s what would prick up the ears of the hosting companies ….. stack a pile of GPUs in a rack, surely you can sell time on that. The Oxide machines seem to be aimed at 2020.
They want a lot of control over all the hardware in their servers. NVIDIA isn't interested in that, so they can't provide those types of servers.
I'm a bit confused about them calling it a cloud computer. The primary benefit of cloud is you spend opex instead of capex. Isn't this moving back to capex again?
Private cloud is a thing too: lots of folks run VMware, Hyper-V, or OpenStack in-house.
This is actually a pretty big deal. They sell servers, but as a finished product. Not as a cobbled together mess of third party stuff where the vendor keeps shrugging if there is an integration problem. They integrated it. It comes with all the features they expect you to want if you wanted to build your own cloud. Also, they wrote the software. And it's all open source. So no "sorry but the third party vendor droppe…
100%. I’m actually extremely impressed. I want one. I haven’t worked in a data center in years, but I’d be tempted to do it again just to get my hands on one.
Oxide feels like it'll be that "integrated" experience, but with the added benefit of software freedom.
> core beliefs as a company: > Cloud computing is the future of all computing infrastructure. Oh god no! Anywhere I can donate to have this not happen? I want my computing on premise, preferably under my table. But well, if it _HAS_ to happen, 0xide is probably a lesser evil.
> Everyone at Oxide makes $201,227 USD, regardless of location. Man I would love to work for a company like that. I don't know why more people don't set their startups like that.
Is the name of the company "Oxide" or "0xide" (with a leading zero)? All text seems to indicate the former while the logo seems to spell the latter?
Haven't blade computers been doing this for a while?
Sort of. The big deal with Oxide is that all the legacy compatibility with the IBM PC platform is gone, and the whole stack, top-to-bottom, is built by then (including firmware). It's not like commodity x86 gear with black-box (often buggy) firmware and layer-upon-layer of hacks and compatibility kludges to present the hardware interface of a late model IBM PC AT.
I can buy these at my local electroncis retailer. So pretty much commodity x86.
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If it is on-prem, calling it "cloud" computer is imho misleading / marketing term.
Absolutely. The point of cloud computing is that I don't have to care where something is running and that I (theoretically) have infinite elasticity and can scale in and out as fast and much as I need to. None of that applies here.