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"Yosemite": the first open source modular chassis for high-powered microservers

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Have we really run out of new names for things already?

It is obviously the roughest, toughest, root'nest, toot'nest, fastest server west of the Pecos!

...so you could say it was a bit of a Maverick? A real Lion of a server?

For those who may not get the reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_Sam#Quotes

This just in: Apple's next OS release will be called "WhatsApp".

Soon to be followed by a new browser called "Spotify".

You gotta checking out "Internet Explorer" on iOS, it's the best mobile game I've ever played.

That actually sounds like it could be the name of a game.

One brainstorming technique is to stare deeply into your desktop background and say what come to mind.

Us Californians just really, really like Yosemite.

I think it's really stupid that they called it Yosemite when it's the name of the current version of OSX.

This may have been in the works for a while. Internally it could have been called Yosemite for years, and marketing probably didn't see a conflict as Yosemite is a pretty consumer name.

In less than a year OS X will be called something else, too.

Very interesting comparing this to Intel's Xeon D which was also just announced: http://www.anandtech.com/show/9070/intel-xeon-d-launched-14n... 45W TDP including dual 10GBE!

You're comparing it against itself since Yosemite uses Xeon D.

Where is the source? What is open source? The PCB?

"This system will be fully compatible with Open Rack, which can accommodate up to 192 SoC server cards in a single rack."

This is great..

What SoC are they using?

intel? POWER? arm?

It'd be interesting to find out. Does intel even have a 65w SoC?

Xeon D for starters.

http://ark.intel.com/products/family/87041/Intel-Xeon-Proces...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/03/10/facebook_open_comput...

Would be cooler if they were using <a href="http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-p....

Would be cooler if they were using these: http://www.raspberrypi.org/raspberry-pi-compute-module-new-p...

It'll be interesting to see the devices that come out of this, sort of a standardized blade server.

I'm still looking for the PoE powered version of this for a small cluster, having a single connection for power and data. Dual NICs would give you ~50W to work with, so it would need something a lot less than the 65W TDP just for the chip. It's also discouraging to see that they tried (and ruled out) the SoCs currently on the market - I'm looking for one of those as well, something that can at least compete with the performance of my 6-year-old desktop processor.

Edit: Looks like the Xeon D would do it, 45W TDP for the whole SoC - http://www.anandtech.com/show/9070/intel-xeon-d-launched-14n...

There's plenty of Avoton stuff on the market if that's what you want. I haven't seen motherboards running off POE, but you may be able to use an extractor and then step down to 12V.

Is this like Seamicro or like a blade chassis?

I've been waiting for this, servers the size of ashtrays.

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