Comment on Data centers will look ridiculous with tiny future servers.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week 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.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 week 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 1 week ago
It made some sense before virtualization for job separation.
Then docker/k8s came along and nuked everything from orbit.
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 week 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.
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 week 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.
sxan@midwest.social 1 week ago
Yeah, that’s the stuff.
Lucien@mander.xyz 1 week ago
You’ve reinvented blade servers