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Is there any custom hardware, built in house, in it? like is it a custom motherboard or do you put in custom PCIe cards that you can't find anywhere else? If

Is there any custom hardware, built in house, in it? like is it a custom motherboard or do you put in custom PCIe cards that you can't find anywhere else? If it's a standard Dell server with just some custom software and nothing else special about it, then I have a tough time comprehending why it would be called an embedded system. If it has like a PCIe card that you can't get anywhere else. that you can only interact with the embedded software you provide. Then maybe I can see it being called an embedded system.

rdtsc 10y ago
It was about a 2U server size but with additional external packaging, cooling improvements. Some specific hardware cards in in it, wouldn't say "can't get anywhere else" but it was very specific for application domain. The difference I saw was that a customer was not supposed to interact with it as a general server. They didn't install stuff on it, interacted mainly via external devices and via a web-based config interface. It was also configured for a specific purpose and had tweaks to kernel scheduling algorithms to provide low latency data processing.