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Is this essentially 4 xbox's crammed into a 2U server?

pjmlp 5y ago
Yep, and this is one of the reasons why devs don't care about Stadia, with NVidia and Microsoft offerings they basically have to fine tune existing code to cloud workloads, not rewrite it from scratch betting into a vendor that is know to kill products.
- enos_feedler 5y ago
  Curious where you work or who you know that gives you the strong insight that developers don’t care about Stadia. Can you share?
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Where I work doesn't have anything to do with games. I follow game development since the 16 bit demoscene days when I used to hang around with crackers, switchers and ProTracker musicians, read Hugi, then I graduate to being a IGDA member, Gamasutra subscriber during its existence, consumer of MakeGames and Develop, attended a couple of GDCE events, having some interviews at well known console manufacturers and eventually deciding that I would rather keep doing boring enterprise consulting than suject myself to game industry working conditions. Which leaves me with a network of people that are still in the industry, naturally there are opportunities to talk about Stadia and very few of them are impressed with Stadia's track record or its owner long term commitment.
    - enos_feedler 5y ago
      Interesting. I used to crack games for Fairlight/Razor 1911, attended siggraph from 2001-2006 (even volunteered for the conference), worked at nvidia for 3 years on the windows GPU driver. I don't talk to anyone about games anymore. I have outgrown consoles but I play stadia on my TV because it doesn't require one. When I show my friends they quickly order a stadia controller and do the same. I also worked at Google in the same building as the stadia team (but not on stadia itself, or related. I don't know anyone who works on it personally)
gnabgib 5y ago
It is 8 xboxs in the 2U chassis apparently (they're stacked two high)[0] analysis [1] [0]: https://external-preview.redd.it/Ma7bVRkbUuoM4xhzbJFe3qdTzAZF988INXJtfOWfBf0.png?auto=webp&s=b93fe3785734c4f6fe3daad6763282e5c0aefc83 https://external-preview.redd.it/Ma7bVRkbUuoM4xhzbJFe3qdTzAZ... [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/gdp48d/project_xcloud_server_blade_analysis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/gdp48d/project_xclo...

Yep, and this is one of the reasons why devs don't care about Stadia, with NVidia and Microsoft offerings they basically have to fine tune existing code to cloud workloads, not rewrite it from scratch betting into a vendor that is know to kill products.

enos_feedler 5y ago
Curious where you work or who you know that gives you the strong insight that developers don’t care about Stadia. Can you share?
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Where I work doesn't have anything to do with games. I follow game development since the 16 bit demoscene days when I used to hang around with crackers, switchers and ProTracker musicians, read Hugi, then I graduate to being a IGDA member, Gamasutra subscriber during its existence, consumer of MakeGames and Develop, attended a couple of GDCE events, having some interviews at well known console manufacturers and eventually deciding that I would rather keep doing boring enterprise consulting than suject myself to game industry working conditions. Which leaves me with a network of people that are still in the industry, naturally there are opportunities to talk about Stadia and very few of them are impressed with Stadia's track record or its owner long term commitment.
  - enos_feedler 5y ago
    Interesting. I used to crack games for Fairlight/Razor 1911, attended siggraph from 2001-2006 (even volunteered for the conference), worked at nvidia for 3 years on the windows GPU driver. I don't talk to anyone about games anymore. I have outgrown consoles but I play stadia on my TV because it doesn't require one. When I show my friends they quickly order a stadia controller and do the same. I also worked at Google in the same building as the stadia team (but not on stadia itself, or related. I don't know anyone who works on it personally)

gnabgib 5y ago

It is 8 xboxs in the 2U chassis apparently (they're stacked two high)[0] analysis [1] [0]: https://external-preview.redd.it/Ma7bVRkbUuoM4xhzbJFe3qdTzAZF988INXJtfOWfBf0.png?auto=webp&s=b93fe3785734c4f6fe3daad6763282e5c0aefc83 https://external-preview.redd.it/Ma7bVRkbUuoM4xhzbJFe3qdTzAZ... [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/gdp48d/project_xcloud_server_blade_analysis/ https://www.reddit.com/r/xcloud/comments/gdp48d/project_xclo...