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If I could use the Oxide stack in a homelab form factor, I would be so happy...
by gclawes 8mo ago
If 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.