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Oxide raises $200M Series C
- gclawes 8mo agoIf I could use the Oxide stack in a homelab form factor, I would be so happy...
- embedding-shape 8mo agoYeah, a small-scale rack for home would be great to replace the beowulf cluster me and others are still stuck with. I'd probably pay a premium for it, given what I can tell from their product material.
- ubercore 8mo agoIf they can scale down the hardware to something close to homelab-ish in price, would be great marketing and way to build expertise to have their big boy solution promoted at workplaces. Probably not a priority at their stage though.
- 9dev 8mo agoPrices start around 800k last time I heard, I don't know if that fits within what you consider a premium or not :-)
- embedding-shape 8mo agoHah, that might be slightly above what I'm ready to pay for a at-home server yes :) But given the right specifications and software integration, I'd probably be ready to pony up up to somewhere around 10K for a complete solution if it could replace all my existing hardware, even if it was more expensive than other options with worse tradeoffs.
- jcgrillo 8mo agoYou would need 3-phase power too. At 208V and 15kW it'll draw over 70A peak :P. If you can wire that up in your living room, I raise my glass to you!
- bo0tzz 8mo agoI'll take the challenge if it gets me Oxide hardware!
- embedding-shape 8mo agoNothing a licensed electrician couldn't figure out, although with 230V plugs instead and probably closer to the garage than our living room :)
- jcgrillo 8mo agoYou have 3-phase service to your house? Lucky. I wish I could get 3-phase here but I think it would require trenching like half a mile to the main road. I get by with a phase converter on my lathe but it's significantly less efficient.
- ryukoposting 8mo agoI was thinking this, too. Here's an even crazier thought: don't even make it rack mount. Make it NUC-sized. Two PB&Js stacked on top of each other, that's the form factor. EC2 except it lives under the couch.
- zozbot234 8mo agoTheir engineered power and cooling solutions are all for rack-scaled hardware, doing a NUC wouldn't make sense. Now a silent and efficiently cooled studio-sized rack with enough hardware (including AMD GPUs) for reasonably quick AI inference with the latest local models, that's something that they could do and be quite popular.
- ryukoposting 8mo agoI'm not saying they should put their software stack on a Celeron (or whatever Intel calls their cheap CPUs now). But no racks, please. I just can't get with the "rack in my house" crowd. If you have a basement, then fine I guess. But I live in an apartment, and I don't have the space or patience for a computer that's the size of a mini fridge, and sounds like a jet engine.
- zdp7 8mo agoFramework desktop mainboards 128GB version. They even show a mini rack with 4 of them.
- buchanae 8mo agoI'm interested, tell me more. What about Oxide attracts a homelab user?
- cmrdporcupine 8mo agoMany homelab users are actually building things out in an effort to learn tooling that they will then use at work. Or just out of intellectual interest.
- UltraSane 8mo agoOr to get skills to get a better job.
- TimTheTinker 8mo agoAll of their software is open-source, including the firmware. I bet this is actually possible for a subset of their tools. Step 1 could be to get Illumos running on a local x86-64 machine.
- pronaosk 8mo agoYou can! There are plenty of us running various minis or old equipment. The non-gimlet deploy pattern supports virtual networking with x86_64 "sleds."
- tylerhillery 8mo agoCan you clarify what parts of the Oxide stack you're running? Is it the entire control plane?
- UltraSane 8mo agoThe rack has custom Intel Tofino based switch that uses P4 to do network magic. Hard to put this in a home lab.
- alsetmusic 8mo agoThat sounds like a challenge. All I need is some financial backers and I'll happily document the whole thing on a blog and a youtube channel. Now accepting offers.
- akshitgaur2005 8mo agoI just came to know about Oxide the other day, and god damn if it is not a dream workplace! High salary, flat structure, a large open-source presence, and maybe much more! Their blogs are really good too. I am an undergraduate right now and looking at the people working there, it doesn't seem likely they would hire a fresh grad, I think I have found the yardstick I am going to measure myself by going forward, "Am I skilled enough that I could work at Oxide?". Hope more companies follow suit in putting the people forward!!
- sweetheart 8mo agoThis is my first time hearing of Oxide, but I had the same initial thought after reading this blog post then poking through their site. The degree of careful thought put into their policies and culture is really impressive, at least from the outside. Good for them, I hope they continue to be in a position to have that luxury (genuinely).
- ilogik 8mo agoYou should check out their podcast, Oxide And Friends
- bsaul 8mo agoAfter a recent experience with flat structures, i tend to be really suspicious. My experience was a total mess of organization, with slack bipping all the time, and nobody "in charge" of maintaining common sense in the architecture, with a long term vision. Total chaos.
- IshKebab 8mo agoYeah there's a famous essay "The tyranny of structurelessness" or something like that. The TL;DR is that there is always a power hierarchy. If there isn't a formal one that just means there's an informal one which is usually much worse.
- mohn 8mo agoGood recollection of the title! Looks like it's from 1970 and written by Jo Freeman[0]. This subthread is also reminding me of "The Cathedral and the Bazaar"[1], which I didn't realize had expanded beyond the original essay into a book. [0] https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Freeman-1970.pdf https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Free... [1] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
- arcologies1985 8mo agoI speculate this is to help them pass the vendor business risk assessment process at larger customers.
- groundzeros2015 8mo agoI suspect it’s because VCs have trouble finding decent places to put all their money.
- franktankbank 8mo agoAnother happy couple!
- twoodfin 8mo agoDo you need to speculate? The post says exactly this.
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- wasmainiac 8mo agoWhy? I don’t get it.
- notachatbot123 8mo agoOxide is based in the United States of America. An unjust, failed democracy in a downward spiral to fascism.
- wasmainiac 8mo agoHave some hope, but thanks.
- benjijay 8mo agoVery cryptic; what are you actually saying here?
- rutierut 8mo agoPoster is not from the US and has no interest in relocating due to the current political situation. This is a common sentiment among non-US but western professionals right now. Had the location been different, they probably would have been interested.
- eigenspace 8mo agoSorry for being unclear. I just meant that I am always interested to hear about up-and-coming cloud providers, but I wouldn't touch one that's based out of the USA.
- drstewart 8mo agoYou shouldn't touch HN either. It's based out of the US. You would own fascists so hard by deleting your account.
- wasmainiac 8mo agoCould someone explains to me what the secret is here? Apart from the fancy marketing, is it the full integration? The hardware? It took me a while to find an actual picture of one of the modules.
- cj 8mo agoRelated question: Are services like AWS Outpost from public clouds the main competitor for Oxide?
- bri3d 8mo agoI don’t know who they see as competitors in market positioning (ie, who is selling against them on their target buyer’s calendar). But the space is called hyperconverged computing and there are a few other players like Scale Computing building “racks you buy that run your VMs.”
- jabart 8mo agoFrom the podcasts they talk a little about their clients. It's people who want something like AWS Outpost but fully disconnected and independent from any cloud and running 100% local.
- FuriouslyAdrift 8mo agoMore like Nutanix, Xen, IBM, Kubernetes... private cloud, colo, on-premise... etc. There's a ton of stuff (I'd bet the majority) of compute workload in business that is local/colo and not cloud.
- panick21_ 8mo agoI don't think that is the 'main' competitor. But its certaintly 'a' competitor for companies that already have put a lot of their eggs into the AWS basket.
- delusional 8mo agoThe selling point, from the looks of it, is an on-prem cloud where you own the hardware. For the business guys they're focusing on price and sovereignty. Owning your business. For technical people they are focusing on quality. Not having to deal with integration bugs.
- shimman 8mo agoOxide is the only company where I check the careers page hoping that they have a position which I can apply to. Happy to see their success. Especially so if you've been following their journey through their podcasts (easily the best tech podcast out there if you care about your craft; no filler, all killer).
- ilogik 8mo ago+1 for the podcast. I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe
- embedding-shape 8mo ago> I would try to apply but as far as I know they require 4 hours overlap with PST which excludes Europe Wouldn't that depend less on where you are and more about your sleeping schedule? I generally go to bed around 04:00Z, up around 11:30Z sometime, seems that would work regardless of location, no?
- AlejandroM_E 8mo agoUnless the position *strictly* requires the overlap (e.g. Manufacturing or Program Management), you can apply. The required overlap is the expected team commitment you should abide to, the logistics are up to you to make it work. If that sounds encouraging, please apply!
- embedding-shape 8mo agoI'm happily voluntarily unemployed, but happy to hear my reasoning was accurate regardless, cheers and good luck :)
- ilogik 8mo agoIf I were in college, that would make sense, but I like to spend evenings with my family.
- kjuulh 8mo agoLooking forward to the podcast! Congrats. Had to do a double take, wasn't it around summer last year they closed 100 mil. Wild
- bflesch 8mo agoTheir website is so nice and smooth even on my shitty computer, not like the other announcement pages of major companies that only work on state of the art macbooks.
- greatgib 8mo agoThe website looks good but it is very hard to know what they do exactly and what they sell, if you can be their customer or not just browsing the website. If you don't know them before. Like do they sell a service or a product. Do they sell hardware, software or something else? it is very confusing.
- db48x 8mo agoI think https://oxide.computer/product/specifications https://oxide.computer/product/specifications makes it pretty clear: Compute Sleds (Total) 16, 24, or 32 CPU Cores 1024–2048 Memory (DRAM) 8–32 TiB Storage 465.75–931.5 TiB Network Switches 2 Switching Capacity 12.8 Tbit/s Power Shelves Up to 2 Power Supplies per Shelf 6 (5+1 or 3+3) Typical / Max Power Draw 12 / 15 kW Dimensions H × W × D 2354mm (92.7”) × 600mm (23.7”) × 1060mm (41.8”) Weight Up to ~2,518 lbs (~1,145 kg) Max Thermal Output 61,416 BTU/hr Airflow Requirements 145.8 × kVA CFM If you need a rack full of computers that are managed programmatically via an API then this is the machine for you.
- Aurornis 8mo agoUnfortunately you have to read further down in the specs to see the actual hardware details. They’re on older generation hardware, so going by cores and RAM alone isn’t enough to tell you about the speed of those cores and the DDR4 RAM. Hopefully raising money helps them iterate faster on their hardware so they’re not so far behind.
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- voidUpdate 8mo agoI'm confused what their product is... "The cloud you own"? Isn't that just... a server? Sure, it looks like a very nice server, but is there anything special about it apart from that?
- drakenot 8mo agoI think its the end-to-end, integrated nature of it. API driven, have "elastic resources", etc, etc. Rather than bolting together various solutions you get to have a "Cloud-like" stack in your own datacenter.
- mcmcmc 8mo agoYep, it’s basically slick hyperconverged infrastructure that you can buy a rack at a time without a subscription license.
- kijin 8mo agoDo you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license? If the answer is no, then you might own the hardware on paper, but you don't control any of the software that makes said hardware useful. If the answer is yes, on the other hand, then one must ask who is paying for those updates, because that can't be sustainable.
- panick21_ 8mo agoThe software is open source and developed in the open. You can pay for support, but there’s no software licensing cost.
- bananapub 8mo ago> Do you get updates to the proprietary software stack if you go without a subscription license? what proprietary software stack? they just publish it all on https://github.com/oxidecomputer/ https://github.com/oxidecomputer/ .
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- sylvinus 8mo agoLove Oxide and what they're building, but I'm not sure raising even more VC money is the way to build a generational company. Quite the opposite? With money you don't need, you're trading faster growth for more dependencies on third parties that will seek a ROI eventually?
- jnsaff2 8mo agoThere is a gold-rush going on. It needs plenty of compute besides GPU's, this is definitely the time to scale as quickly as possible.
- zozbot234 8mo agoI don't think any Oxide racks come with GPU's at present, and the power density of modern GPU-centric AI compute is on a rather unprecedented level. Oxide racks are very well cooled but are no match for the racks in an AI datacenter that's literally burning a full gigawatt of power.
- FuriouslyAdrift 8mo agoYeah, they're not going to go up against the nVidia NVL72, NVL144 or AMDs UAL systems https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb200-nvl72/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/gb200-nvl72/ https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/amd-delivering-open-rack-scale-ai-infrastructure-to-unlock-agentic-ai.html https://www.amd.com/en/blogs/2025/amd-delivering-open-rack-s...
- jnsaff2 8mo ago> needs plenty of compute besides GPU's Databases, K/V stores, crawlers, services, etc all still necessary besides GPU's. The closer to GPU's the better and if you have GPU's in your own DC.
- neom 8mo agoNot necessarily. Supply chains and vendor management into scale is very difficult and very very expensive, I think we prob spend north of $200MM to get to $150MM ARR, but the economics started to shake out thereafter based on CAGR. To do this without owning 0% of the company while still recognizing needing a lot of cash in the system to keep everything lubricated, (for example Michael Dell might be fine personally extending a $500MM line of credit to the business, if the business has $50MM in venture funds on some predictable growth rate) - basically you use true risk capital via the smallest amount of equity you can give to de-risk downstream capital requirements. I don't know anything about how Oxide is growing their business so this could be total nonsense in their case, but it's how we built a generational business (digitalocean)!
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- zozbot234 8mo agoI wonder how Oxide's basic value proposition changes with the very recent growth in rack-scale and multi-rack (datacenter-wide) compute for AI. Surely these other vendors have tech (particularly around network interconnect) that can be repurposed effectively for the more general private cloud workloads Oxide is focusing on.
- twoodfin 8mo agoConversely, has Oxide discussed in depth how they see GPU compute? I’m guessing for their current target market of existing enterprise software it doesn’t matter, but the ownership and economics stories are at least as compelling for matmul code.
- panick21 8mo agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8 Watch the QA. Basically, they Nvidia ecosystem is to closed for them to add value. And competing with Nvidia is difficult so its not their focus.
- twoodfin 8mo agoWas already on my Watch Later queue, thanks!
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- colesantiago 8mo agoI'm confused and saddened on why Oxide has to keep raising money (in substitute for growth) and keep entrenching their business with VCs and letting them control business and ownership. > "So if we didn’t need to raise, why seek the capital? Well, we weren’t seeking it, really. But our investors, seeing the business take off, were eager to support it." From this of course the VCs will back and support Oxide (they are mentally thinking that Oxide will move into supplying hardware for AI datacenters) eventually want their money back at many many multiples and the pressure is there to achieve this. Can you even invest in Oxide? I just wish Oxide wouldn't have to keep getting owned by VCs which would inevitably lead to enshittification to pay back the VCs. If Oxide followed the model of Valve (100% founder and employee ownership, profitable, vast unlikelihood of enshittification or pressure to get acquired or IPO) then it would be a different situation.
- Aurornis 8mo agoThere’s nothing confusing about it. Hardware businesses require a lot of capital to build the hardware.
- colesantiago 8mo agoI don't see Hetzner getting into bed with VCs and raising $100M or $200M? How long until Oxide needs $2BN, $4BN or $8BN from VCs, further getting owned by them?
- neom 8mo agoK, well I was on the first/founding team of digitalocean and owned strategy there from zero to just before IPO, we took a bunch of venture, heck if you'd seen our covenants in our lease lines, they made our venture debt look like kittens, yet we IPO'd, and I don't think very many in the digitalocean story are particularly unhappy? VCs do not try to "own companies" they try to exit businesses at a gain.
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- _pdp_ 8mo agoI am confused. How do you own a cloud you pay for as a service.
- liamkinne 8mo agoYou buy the physical rack and install it in your data centre. It is your property.
- nz 8mo agoSo you are telling me that the cloud is not actually made of water-vapor?
- toast0 8mo agoI don't know how it works for Oxide, but this isn't a new concept, IBM has been doing it since the 1950s. Own the mainframe, pay for the required service contract.
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- kev507 8mo agoimportantly, you don't pay for it as a service, you buy it and it's yours. like buying a cloud in a box, instead of having to build it yourself with various server, storage, networking, and software vendors it all comes ready to use.
- kevinrineer 8mo agoAnd, interestingly for Oxide, rack scale solutions from HW vendors might not be suited for your company's workload. Their solution isn't all-in on AI, from what I understand.
- sudomateo 8mo agoWhat led you to believe that this is a SaaS offering? It's not.
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- choiway 8mo agoHow much money do you have to raise to buy a decent mic?
- KenoFischer 8mo agoCongratulations to the Oxide team! It's a tough market out there :)! I'm still personally frustrated that I don't get to play with the hardware (too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers), but I'm excited to see that they're successful and hopefully they'll come around to my use case eventually :). In the meantime, I appreciate that they're building largely in the open - every once in a while I'll glance at their issue tracker for light bedtime reading. Just recently we had some fun internally throwing our controls software at their thermal loop as a usage example - it's often hard to find compelling real-world systems to use as openly sharable examples (of course we have interesting customer problems, but that's all NDA'd), so having companies build real stuff in the open is fantastic. Great company, wish them the best.
- cmdrk 8mo ago> too expensive for our internal server needs; not the right fit for our datacenter partners/customers You and me both. They're doing neat stuff, but I wonder how many other potential customers feel that way too. What is Oxide's market? It feels a bit like advanced alien technology that is ultimately a little too weird and expensive for most enterprises to adopt.
- UltraSane 8mo agohow does it compare to Nutanix?
- abrookewood 8mo agoOf topic, but where the hell did Nutanix come from? I've never heard of them until recently and all of a sudden, they are being marketed as a serious competitor to VMware etc.
- ndespres 8mo agoThey have been around for nearly 20 years. I viewed them as an also-ran until Broadcom decided they didn’t need any of us as VMware customers anymore. Now Nutanix seems like a viable path for on-prem VM workloads that need a new home for those who don’t want to part with an arm and a leg on licensing but can’t move to public cloud either. I’m not sure how much of that market Oxide can capture. Not sure Nutanix is still doing the hyperconverged hardware themselves anymore.
- yla92 8mo agoHas anyone purchased/enquired about an Oxide rack or currently running one ? any info on pricing ?
- dagi3d 8mo agoI just talk about some comments I read some time ago, so take this with a grain of salt. It was my understanding that if you were spending about $300k-$500k a year in cloud services, it would make sense this type of solution, so the expected price would be something between $500k-$1M depending on the configuration
- Aurornis 8mo agoPrices are not public, but comments over the years have hinted it’s in the $500K to $1mm range. Their hardware is multiple generations behind at this point, however. I wonder if they’re starting to reduce the price because it’s hard to justify paying so much for old hardware. They could just be targeting customers who don’t care as much about performance or efficiency as they do the software stack.
- zozbot234 8mo agoBeing a few generations behind is kinda par for the course for any server hardware that's put in production, this is not a gaming PC build. Hopefully they're working on bringing their hardware up to date, since efficiency is a key consideration for the class of workloads they're aiming at.
- Aurornis 8mo ago> Being a few generations behind is kinda par for the course for any server hardware that's put in production No it’s not. Normally if you’re buying server hardware you don’t start with a CPU that’s already 5 years old and last-generation RAM that isn’t even manufactured at scale any more. CPUs have advanced a lot in recent years. The jump from Zen 3 to Zen 5 is very substantial.
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- mrcwinn 8mo agoAmazing, and all employees literally have equal equity, just like they did for salaries! Bravo.
- bix6 8mo agoAnyone have insight into revenue or valuation? Implied $1B Val but revenue guesstimates I see put them at sub $50M?
- dagi3d 8mo agoIf I had millions in my bank, instead of buying fancy cars, I would definitely buy an Oxide rack just for the lols
- NetOpWibby 8mo agoSame, I've wanted one of these things for years.
- drewbailey 8mo agoCongratulations to the team. Oxide & Friends, Bryan, Adam & Team are such a valuable resource to our community. Their podcast is amazing, the problems they encounter, and their willingness to share with the rest of us is not taken for granted!
- spamizbad 8mo agoI'll say: You made the right call striking while the iron is hot. My employer did one of those "Didn't need to but did it anyway" rounds and it was critical for a successful exit that came years later.
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- panick21_ 8mo agoWow, amazing. That some serious money. Everybody gets a raise hopefully. Congrats everybody. What to do with so much money? An AI product is of course the 'no-brainer', I would love to see them partner with Tenstorrent for the CPU/AI part. I think Bryan described this as Door 3 'doing something crazy'. A product around AMD APU was talked about, but in a recent talk Brain said AMD doesn't seem to care about that product. OpenTitan is now getting ready for production uses, maybe makes sense to switch to that in the future. Moving Hubris onto that shouldn't be to big of a lift. A conventional server without DC bus bar maybe? Not talking about homelab server but something in a class where you can't have a whole rack and the bus bar. The main seller would be the fireware and software ontop to get people into the control plane ecosystem. And you could make Linux boot on it too for more market reach potentially. I'm not sure how much such a platform could share with current system. An SSD or NIC with open fireware would be great, but not sure if you can develop that only for your own product or if you would want to sell it separatly to make sense. But that would be big departure from the current All-in-One product. Amazing what you can do when all you try to do is make podcast. Maybe now they have money to bring back 'On the Metal'. I enjoyed the more structured interview style podcast about history of computing quite a bit. That said the more discussion oriented 'Oxide and Friends' is also nice.
- drfuchs 8mo agoCan they re-raise it in Series Rust?
- bcantrill 8mo agoI LOL'd -- or certainly snorted. Underrated post, anyway.
- Traster 8mo agoI guess there's two ways of looking at this, way (1) is leaning heavily into what seems at least seems to be top of cycle in a cyclical business, which is likely to be highly problematic when they hit downturn, or (2) doing an Amazon and getting lucky by having a massive war chest to survive the next down turn.
- xer0x 8mo agoCongratulations Oxide, it's inspirational to see curiosity, conviction and rigor pay off.
- singularfutur 8mo agoAnother $200M for a company whose product most developers will never touch. VCs continue to confuse "hardware that sounds cool" with "business that makes money". This ends one of two ways: acqui-hire or Chapter 11.
- linksnapzz 8mo agoMost developers won't know if they're touching it or not, given their market.
- panick21_ 8mo agoMost developers never touch a mainframe or a nvidia h200 either. So were they bad investments? Neither do most developers touch a Cisco Core Router. Amount of developers touching a specific piece of hardware is mostly unrelated to business success. The real question is, are there big company with lots of money that buy your product.
- wmf 8mo agoIt's been six years and they still won't say "it's Nutanix but better". Is it not better? Does the "we akshually don't have competitors" approach work with customers?
- kev507 8mo agoI don't think we'd ever go with the "we don't have competitors" line, it's not serious. The competition is more AWS, GCP, and Azure than it is Nutnaix though, they can't provide a similar experience or economic value when they don't make or control their own hardware. That doesn't mean we never see Nutnaix, but it's not the most apt comparison. As Alan Kay famously said, "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware" - otherwise you'll be stuck at the intersection of support and scaling pains long term.
- panick21_ 8mo agoWhat company specifically mentions its competitors in its advertisements? Do you expect the homepage of the company to be a list of links to its competitors? What is this absurd expectation?
- gigatexal 8mo agoLove the team and the podcast. Kudos to them
- arjie 8mo agoI get the whole x CPUs y RAM story (it's akin to how clouds sell) and that often makes sense in the cloud, but when managing my datacenter operations a big constraining point is compute / kW. At 30 A / 208 V at 85% efficiency I've got 5 kW to work with per cabinet. If I'm putting in low core density slow machines I've got to do a lot more management than if I'm using my Epyc 9755 based servers. This is a practical constraint not just a theoretical "oh I want the latest and greatest". It's just that I can't really justify using up 4U and a kW on an Epyc 7003 series. The compute density just isn't there for the power use. The old chips are practically deadweight. Anyway, I'm glad to hear of the raise because the team seems exceptional (judging by the posts you guys write and they have written prior to the company) and I love work in this area that simplifies hardware management. Good stuff, good luck, and congratulations!
- kristjansson 8mo ago> 5 kW to work with per cabinet have my expectations been shot by reading too much about Nvidia's latest and greatest, or does this seem quite low?
- shrubble 8mo agoThat’s standard practice in many data centers; but you can often pay more to get more amps delivered to your rack.
- arjie 8mo agoNo, your expectations are not wrong. I'm a small business. A fully stacked AI/GPU cabinet is multiples of this. A single GH200 based server will have 2x2.7 kW power supplies in a 1U form factor. As you can imagine, I am not running a cabinet full of such servers. But you don't need AI power requirements to do normal software. And there's lots of normal software to do!
- tuetuopay 8mo agoHaving worked in the space, 6kVA is the norm from 10-15 years ago, 12kVA is the standard for regular compute workloads. With HPC/AI all bets are off though.
- NetOpWibby 8mo agoCan't wait to own one of their racks someday...or get around to making Oxide at home.
- joshAg 8mo agoGod, i am so glad to see these guys succeeding. The sun may have burned out, but the sky is still bright thanks to them. May they be so successful that i can eventually buy workstation versions of their minicomputers, sort of like how they made CoaL for triton.
- aus10d 8mo agoI like this!
- MaxHoppersGhost 8mo agoThese comments/upvotes feel astroturfed and any negative/questioning comments are heavily downvoted.
- qaq 8mo agoMight be because negative/questioning comments sound to be written by people who have no clue what they are talking about.
- LeoPanthera 8mo agoI say this every time Oxide comes up, and I know that I will never get my wish, but if they ever ventured into the "homelab" market with smaller products, they can have all my money.
- nickpeterson 8mo agoI’m sure it wouldn’t be profitable for them, but I feel like having some vendor sell a ‘reference machine’ that they know could run the core OS well would be a good in between. Someone like Framework selling a workstation looking desktop in a specific reference config couldn’t be too bad. Feels like just enough to get a community started. Most tasks really don’t need bleeding edge hardware anymore, the thing could go years without hardware changes.
- abrookewood 8mo agoAgree 100% with this. Really want to test it out.
- alsetmusic 8mo agoA podcast host / journalist / dev who I've long appreciated occasionally waxes on the value of having a vanity project such as this. The model he compares it to is automakers building concept cars.
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- BobbyTables2 8mo agoHaving seen what other big players do in the area, I wish Oxide all the best. The world needs an alternative to vendors who charge top dollar for third-rate integration with all the other benefits of vendor lock-in.
- kchoudhu 8mo agoWhat valuation is this at?
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