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My company (Newisys, under Sanmina) helped with hardware refinements because they were having cooling/airflow problems. They then contracted with Compal to man
by eitally 11y ago
My company (Newisys, under Sanmina) helped with hardware refinements because they were having cooling/airflow problems. They then contracted with Compal to manufacture the servers and then us to do system assembly. Compal's QC was horrifically bad -- we had about a 10% failure rate of servers they sent us. I'm happy OpenCompute is starting to receive traction, but it's not because FB is awesome at hardware. They've gotten a ton of both raw engineering and also DFM assistance from the pros.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoI'm very grateful for you confirming my intuition on how they're doing hardware. It's so specialist and difficult I figured they had to be outsourcing most of it to pro's. Not a negative on their part, though, as it's what I'd do as well. There's just some holdovers in dicussions that think these companies are all doing (rather than funding) hardware development. EDIT to add: The Horus product is interesting. Formerly, I only knew about the NUMAscale for AMD NUMA. Too bad competition rarely survives in this segment. Things were more interesting in the MPP and DSM days.