Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by wmf on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:51PM
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One thing that MS can't say yet is that a Skylake-EP server is "rumored" to have a larger socket and 24 DIMM slots instead of 16 so it needs to be physically wider.
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Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by walrus01 on Monday October 31, 2016 @03:56PM
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There's the old telecom standard for 23" racks... Other than facebook I wonder who is building new hot aisle/cold aisle separated environments for wider-than-19" standard.
Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by wmf on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:06PM
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I mean the old MS servers are 9.5" wide and the new Skylake servers need to be wider than that so they're going to 19". Facebook/Google/Rackspace use a 21" rack but MS and LinkedIn are using 19".
Re:Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design
by jabl on Monday October 31, 2016 @04:09PM
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Today you can get these tray servers with two trays in 1U (or 4 tray servers in a 2U chassis, typically), where each server is a standard 2 socket Xeon(-EP?) thing. So surely if you suddenly have twice the width you can cram in a few extra DIMM slots without having to go wider than the usual 19" racks.