Comment on Data centers will look ridiculous with tiny future servers.

• 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

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  • 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.

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    • 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.

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      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        128-192 cores on a single epyc makes almost nothing worth it, the scaling is incredible.

        Also, I happen to know they’re working on even more hardware isolation mechanisms, similar to sriov but more enforced.

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    • 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.

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      • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Yes, but they weren’t as fast, vt-x and the like were still fairly new, and the VM stacks were kind of shit.

        Yeah, docker is a shame, I wrote a thin stack on lxc, but BSD Jails are much nicer, if only they improved their deployment system

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• sxan@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Yeah, that’s the stuff.

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