Except that you cut out all the fat of traditional servers. These aren't COTS servers. Imagine if somebody re-engineered an entire rack in the same way they once introduced blade computers. Any part that can be moved from standalone to rackwide should be cut out of individual shelves. So I would expect things like serial buses, video, certain power aspects, etc to all be removed from the individual shelves.
When you cut out all that fat, you can fit a lot more muscle in its place. Then you can arrange everything on a rack scale for airflow, power, redundancy, etc.
The obvious downside is that you are locked into a single supplier for everything in the rack. Somebody please add a link here for Oxide's strategy to minimize this risk for their customers. (And feel free to correct any mistaken over-simplification.) Overall, they have seemed incredibly open to sharing in a way that allows others to play. That might just be because they would die if they didn't, but I think a lot of people are willing to accept that they are pretty all-around awesome folks trying to make the world better. And making money in the process is not a bad gig. We'll see which other vendors jump into the pool.
I wish them great success. But I'm wondering why they haven't coordinated my shipping address for their first shipment. First one's free, right?
When you cut out all that fat, you can fit a lot more muscle in its place. Then you can arrange everything on a rack scale for airflow, power, redundancy, etc.
The obvious downside is that you are locked into a single supplier for everything in the rack. Somebody please add a link here for Oxide's strategy to minimize this risk for their customers. (And feel free to correct any mistaken over-simplification.) Overall, they have seemed incredibly open to sharing in a way that allows others to play. That might just be because they would die if they didn't, but I think a lot of people are willing to accept that they are pretty all-around awesome folks trying to make the world better. And making money in the process is not a bad gig. We'll see which other vendors jump into the pool.
I wish them great success. But I'm wondering why they haven't coordinated my shipping address for their first shipment. First one's free, right?