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From what I gather, it’s extremely beefy, physical servers with DPUs built-in. I.e. perfect for large on-premise deployments while maintaining the high performa
by stingraycharles 4y ago
From what I gather, it’s extremely beefy, physical servers with DPUs built-in. I.e. perfect for large on-premise deployments while maintaining the high performance that DPUs enable, all as a single appliance.
It’s the kind of thing I would expect Nvidia or Dell to become big at as well, and Bryan Cantrill has enough leverage to pique my interest significantly here.
- wmf 4y agoI don't think they're using DPUs.
- jjtheblunt 4y agowhat's a DPU?
- unixhero 4y agoDatacenter processing unit, it's a rather new thing
- gertrunde 4y agoAlso known as: SmartNIC, and a bunch of other names, basically a NIC with an embedded CPU (usually ARM of some sort), so can offload some workload into the NIC. An example is nvida's bluefield, there are others That sort of thing is being used in a few areas, can even run ESXi on them. There was a fun article on servethehome a while back using them to build an arm cluster (Link: https://www.servethehome.com/building-the-ultimate-x86-and-arm-cluster-in-a-box/ https://www.servethehome.com/building-the-ultimate-x86-and-a... )