If I could use the Oxide stack in a homelab form factor, I would be so happy...

TimTheTinker 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

All 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.

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ryukoposting 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Their 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.

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buchanae 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I'm interested, tell me more. What about Oxide attracts a homelab user?

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embedding-shape 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, 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.

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ubercore 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If 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.

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9dev 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Prices start around 800k last time I heard, I don't know if that fits within what you consider a premium or not :-)

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Hah, 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 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You 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!