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mk_stjameslast Thursday at 8:15 PM2 repliesview on HN

Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/open sourced enough so that 40 years from now when you can buy an entire rack system for $500, some kid in a garage will be able to boot and run code on these".


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criemenlast Thursday at 8:41 PM

What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.

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wmflast Thursday at 8:29 PM

The firmware is UEFI and Vera should have good upstream support. The GPU driver is proprietary though, so you'll have to dig up the last supported version from 2036.

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