It's have to be a special setup for sure, a board with no memory even hanging off of it. In theory all you'd need is some tight integration with the NIC (or a

It's have to be a special setup for sure, a board with no memory even hanging off of it. In theory all you'd need is some tight integration with the NIC (or a few of em!) and tiny driver that knows how to DMA to the NIC. Larger problem of course is that L3 isn't addressable. I wonder how much money a cloud provider would have to pony up to AMD to get an exception to that? :) A huge # of workloads would fit in 16MB with no storage hanging off. Heck I think every microservice I've ever written could manage that. There have been some efforts of late to make a cloud first OS, honestly once you remove everything except for "talk to network controller" and "parse JSON", well so long as you don't mind writing in a language that isn't JS, a few MB is plenty for lots of workloads.