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Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by Fordec »

jjice wrote: post #6

I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware. Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast "Oxide and Friends", and their original "On The Metal" show. I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over th…

There are two companies that I want want to work for. Oxide is one of them. Many places I'm still willing to work for, but in a more neutral way. They're just mostly not hiring for my role/location as far as I can tell, so it is what it is.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by GL26 »

Very instructive on how a computer rack works. I cought only later on that it was Oxide specific, but the design decisions seem so obvious to me that they look like industry standards. What about firmware architecture ? How do you design for reliability ? And how often does an infra like that stop working bc of a hardware problem ? And firmware ?

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by benjaminleonard »

drudolph914 wrote: post #53

big fan of oxide, and love the demo overall, but at the same time, I can't shake the feeling that these kinds of 3D demos are a bit gimmicky/cheap nowadays. pages like this used to be a signal for a high-end product and or a benchmark for good engineering. now though, we all know that this kind of work can be vibe-coded with threejs fairly quickly if you have the assets. idk ... it feels like it's trying to capture m…

IIRC the CAD exports were in the many millions of polygons, so there's substantial work in preparing the assets for the explorer. Kenan (the 3d artist I worked with) did fantastic work cleaning and optimising them. I'm somewhat jealous of hardware startups with products without quite so many parts!

It's part of the reason I'd waited so long before making this, I knew it was going to be a lot of work. There's parts that Claude was especially useful for, like perf testing, debugging and animation. But the first half of the project was done almost entirely by hand.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by drudolph914 »

mnsc wrote: post #60
drudolph914 wrote: post #53

big fan of oxide, and love the demo overall, but at the same time, I can't shake the feeling that these kinds of 3D demos are a bit gimmicky/cheap nowadays. pages like this used to be a signal for a high-end product and or a benchmark for good engineering. now though, we all know that this kind of work can be vibe-coded with threejs fairly quickly if you have the assets. idk ... it feels like it's trying to capture m…

My feeling? I ask myself the same question as I do for for everything nowadays. Yeah this might be ai slop, but is it good ai slop? If it's good, like this, I feel good. If it's bad, I feel bad. Human effort as a proxy for quality... that ship has sailed. And that makes me feel frustrated.

yeah, I agree with you. I guess the part that feels disingenuous is that these kinds of projects are some-what cashing in on attention from people who still who see threejs slop as "high-effort UIs." this speaks more about me than other ppl, I'm just personally already at the point where all of this feels closer to slop rather than quality. I guess as this trend plays out, we'll all eventually feel somewhat similar on the yet-another-3d-UI-slop trend

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by casumel »

Melatonic wrote: post #44
baby_souffle wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Somehow hardware giants like Dell, HP, SuperMicro, etc didn't make a product like this, Dell and HP both have "blades" that plugged into a blade-chassis. The chassis had all the lights out mgmt as well as power/networking integrated so the blade was basically a metal box with compute/memory/storage and it just slid in to the dock. I am sure that supermico had something like this as well

Cisco does too and theres another hardware virtualization layer below the normal ones ( so for example you can have many virtual nics per actual nic, etc)

Cisco UCS! A great hardware platform, albeit quite expensive.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by benjaminleonard »

piker wrote: post #69
dcre wrote: post #25

Source code here :) https://github.com/oxidecomputer/rack-explorer

Thanks for sharing that. Very cool - was this sales product that you decided to release or has it always been public?

Sales/marketing. Though there's some ideas floating around on using it to document something like a CRU replacement.

We need to get it cross-linked from the main site still.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by connicpu »

girfan wrote: post #30

Cool tour. I haven't kept up with their developments; what kind of workloads have they been pushing for? Since they don't seem to have any specialized accelerators in the Compute Sled, I am assuming they are not targeting AI workloads for now?

Hard to compete there when most of the margin is going to NVIDIA, pretty much impossible if you don't have the scale of Dell/Supermicro/etc

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by hagbard_c »

Fordec wrote: post #71
jjice wrote: post #6

I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware. Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast "Oxide and Friends", and their original "On The Metal" show. I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over th…

There are two companies that I want want to work for. Oxide is one of them. Many places I'm still willing to work for, but in a more neutral way. They're just mostly not hiring for my role/location as far as I can tell, so it is what it is.

And the other company you want to work for is ___________ because they ____________. Inquiring minds want to know.

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by oytis »

thraway3837 wrote: post #21
jjice wrote: post #6

I want Oxide to do so well. The product is a breath of fresh air in the era of cloud providers. As an engineer, I'd kill to get to work with their hardware. Not to mention that working at Oxide sounds like a modern Sun Microsystems with the ideology that team has. Highly recommend their podcast "Oxide and Friends", and their original "On The Metal" show. I've attempted to apply to their company multiple times over th…

Just a gentle reminder that a company may portray itself as cool to customers, but is not cool to their own current or future employees. Their interview process was shady. There was a post here about 1-2 years ago that was a link to their interview process and how open and transparent they were. The post itself was from an employee and a fellow commenter who was gaslighting folks was also an employee. Several folks c…

With every interview process you say "yes" only once and "no" many times. Where there are a lot of candidates, then many more times, while spending less time on each candidate. There is no way to design a process that will not leave the majority of candidates disappointed - as soon as they are up front with the amount of work you'll need to do, it sounds ethical to me

Re: Oxide computer 3D rack guided tour

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Post by piker »

benjaminleonard wrote: post #76
piker wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for sharing that. Very cool - was this sales product that you decided to release or has it always been public?

Sales/marketing. Though there's some ideas floating around on using it to document something like a CRU replacement. We need to get it cross-linked from the main site still.

Makes sense. I was looking for a link from the main site and noticed there wasn't one. A great leave-behind for sales. Nice job.
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