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Cloud Compute. Seems like a huge lost opportunity for by Intel not targeting the "consumer" cloud compute market with NUC's, because they wanted to protect the
by tiffanyh 3y ago
Cloud Compute.
Seems like a huge lost opportunity for by Intel not targeting the "consumer" cloud compute market with NUC's, because they wanted to protect their high margin server chip business.
There's huge classes of workloads that a NUC would do just fine on for the cloud, and cloud operators would love the lower power & physical size of these NUC compute devices.
AMD has embraced it, and you'll see 7000 chips at various cloud compute companies like OVH & Hetzner.
- JoshTriplett 3y agoFor that kind of use case, you'd want a blade server or similar, not a NUC. In particular, you'd want something that works with a rack.
- tiffanyh 3y agoSomething like this? https://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/ https://hackaday.com/2012/12/09/160-mac-minis-one-rack/ 160 Mac Mini’s in a rack. That’s ~4-nodes / 1U. And you don’t have the added expense of the blade enclosure.