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Microsoft have had similar for years. Last I heard it was an FPGA with some ARM cores attached, with the former offloading networking and storage, and the latte
by hijba 4y ago
Microsoft have had similar for years. Last I heard it was an FPGA with some ARM cores attached, with the former offloading networking and storage, and the latter running various services that the Azure backend talks to, on a custom Linux distribution. The main processors are all still x86 though, typically running Windows Server to host whatever VMs have been provisioned.
- jen20 4y agoAre there any public talks or papers you’re aware of on this? AWS (rightly) make a lot of noise about Nitro and the benefits of their architecture - I’d expect anyone who is actually in a similar position to be doing the same.
- hijba 4y agoThey've released some information on this under the name "Project Catapult": https://www.microsoft.com/research/project/project-catapult https://www.microsoft.com/research/project/project-catapult
- zeusk 4y agoProject Overlake is the current iteration
- watchdog22 4y agoYou should check out www.nebulon.com They are doing an AWS Nitro system for everyone else