Comments on: Smashing The Server To Put It Back Together Better https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/04/smashing-the-server-to-put-it-back-together-better/ In-depth coverage of high-end computing at large enterprises, supercomputing centers, hyperscale data centers, and public clouds. Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:14:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Timothy Prickett Morgan https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/04/smashing-the-server-to-put-it-back-together-better/#comment-22747 Wed, 02 Dec 2015 13:47:14 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=2067#comment-22747 In reply to Andrew Harding.

That was a very good server design, wasn’t it?

]]> By: Andrew Harding https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/04/smashing-the-server-to-put-it-back-together-better/#comment-22641 Tue, 01 Dec 2015 20:38:56 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=2067#comment-22641 In reply to Cristian Vasile.

I agree. The Unisys ES7000 had composable IO via crossbar, compute with TLC and centralized main memory in 1999. Way more flexible than today’s rudimentary attempts. Blades and the new offerings from Cisco and Dell are hardly composable. These new offerings are just composable IO via SAS or FC. Let’s hope they don’t kill us with custom drivers, and low volume cheap, gear. Fail FAST Folks, Fail FAST 😉

]]> By: Cristian Vasile https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/11/04/smashing-the-server-to-put-it-back-together-better/#comment-19786 Wed, 04 Nov 2015 22:27:03 +0000 http://www.nextplatform.com/?p=2067#comment-19786 This idea is not exactly new.

Egenera tried this stuff in the past (15 years ago?) when they still manufactured own boards, to build distinct pools of resources decoupling CPU & memory from I/O and networking.

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