You’ve reinvented blade servers
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sxan@midwest.social 10 months ago
I think what will happen is that we’ll just start seeing sub-U servers. First will be 0.5U servers, then 0.25U, and eventually 0.1U. By that point, you’ll be racking racks of servers, with 10 0.1U servers slotted into a frame that you mount in an open 1U slot.
Silliness aside, we’re kind of already doing that in some uses, only vertically. Multiple GPUs mounted vertically in an xU harness.
Lucien@mander.xyz 10 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The future is 12 years ago: HP Moonshot 1500
“The HP Moonshot 1500 System chassis is a proprietary 4.3U chassis that is pretty heavy: 180 lbs or 81.6 Kg. The chassis hosts 45 hot-pluggable Atom S1260 based server nodes”
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sxan@midwest.social 10 months ago
Yeah, that’s the stuff.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 months ago
That did not catch on. I had access to one and the use case and deployment docs were foggy at best
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It made some sense before virtualization for job separation.
Then docker/k8s came along and nuked everything from orbit.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 10 months ago
VMs were a thing in 2013.
Interestinly, Docker was released in March 2013. So it might have prevented a better company from trying the same thing.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The other use case was for hosting companies. They could sell “5 servers” to one customer and “10 servers” to another and have full CPU/memory isolation. I think that use case still exists and we see it used all over the place in public cloud hyperscalers.
Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities are a good argument for discrete servers like this. We’ll see if a new generation of CPUs will make this more worth it.