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I've seen posts about Oxide for years now, but do they actually ship hardware? I've never seen images, or posts about companies with their new Oxide Thingamajig
by fishgoesblub 2mo ago
I've seen posts about Oxide for years now, but do they actually ship hardware? I've never seen images, or posts about companies with their new Oxide Thingamajig™
- vsgherzi 2mo agoas far as I can tell, yes? It seems like Jane street and lawrence national laboratory are two confirmed customers.
- fishgoesblub 2mo agoWith those two names it makes more since that I haven't seen anything regarding their use. Not exactly Joe Schmoe LLC as customers.
- mihaelm 2mo agoJoe Schmoe LLC will probably do just fine by sticking to popular clouds. I reckon adopting Oxide Computer would pay off at much larger volumes of traffic, or if you have to do on-prem due to regulatory reasons. It would be nice to know more about pricing so the Enthusiast Joe can have a better idea, but it's more a boutique vibe right now.
- antonvs 2mo agoPutting together bits and pieces from different sources: a half-rack is the minimum SKU, and it has 1024 cores and 16 TiB RAM for somewhere around $600k. (So many people have repeated the latter number that it must be true! I.e., add salt grains to taste.) Just the thing for an ambitious enthusiast to upgrade to from their Raspberry Pi rack!
- zozbot234 2mo agoIs that an up-to-date quote? That's not a bad price for 16 TiB of RAM. Once you add the CPU cores and the storage, it's actually an amazing deal.
- antonvs 2mo agoVery good point. That number almost certainly doesn't take into account recent RAM price increases, etc. Tracing back through all the multitude of references to the $600k price, the earliest I found was from 2023, and it's completely unsourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840
- diziet_sma 2mo agoI couldn't find any evidence Jane Street is a customer, only that Jane street is an investor. Do you have a source for that?
- kaladin-jasnah 2mo agoNot OP, but someone I met who worked for Jane Street said that he was pretty sure that Oxide sold to them and was their primary customer.
- kajaktum 2mo agoBryan gave a talk in Jane Street (you can find them in their Youtube channel). In there, he clearly was talking about a production issue that was happening to the Oxide rack from inside Jane Street. So yes, I am pretty they sold a rack to Jane Street.
- throw0101d 2mo agoThe CEO of Shopify tweeted about it at one point: * https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1793798092212367669 https://twitter.com/tobi/status/1793798092212367669
- ahl 2mo agoWe've shipped kind of a lot of hardware at this point!
- mycoliza 2mo agothere are even images of it on our website!
- esseph 2mo agoMost of their customers wouldn't be the type to let others know.
- NexRebular 2mo agoFurthermore, do they ship only to the US or can those racks be bought elsewhere too?
- ahl 2mo agoElsewhere! We’re completing compliance testing to deliver to Europe.