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A cage[0] is ~100x larger than what you need to host a single server. Many data centers will colocate by the rack unit. At others you can get a quarter or hal
by kube-system 5mo ago
A cage[0] is ~100x larger than what you need to host a single server. Many data centers will colocate by the rack unit. At others you can get a quarter or half cabinet[1]. Even at the very largest enterprise datacenters you can colocate a single cabinet.
[0]: https://static.cisco-eagle.com/images/category/WireCrafters/Datacenter-Security-Cages.jpg https://static.cisco-eagle.com/images/category/WireCrafters/...
[1]: https://www.edpeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/EDP-3-Compartment-Co-Lo-Rack-800x800.jpg https://www.edpeurope.com/wp-content/uploads/EDP-3-Compartme...
- pelasaco 5mo ago> A cage[0] is ~100x larger than what you need to host a single server. Yup, but i was assuming that he wanted to experiment building gpu rigs. For sure standard GPU servers are cheaper and easy to maintain. I have two lenovos, bought them used, already EOL.. was cheap and better than any custom gpu rig.. but i was pragmatic, because my goal was to put it in production, and not to research...
- kube-system 5mo agoYou could fit 10 million dollars of GPU rigs in the smallest of cages. A cage is an entire room. You don't need that to run a few servers.
- pelasaco 5mo ago> A cage is an entire room. Not everywhere. Running a data center myself, we have cages for 1 rack, 3 racks and so on..