Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync

Re:Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync by jazzyjackson on Saturday March 19, 2022 @05:17AM (#30732341)

I guess you're downvoted for being sarcastic or maybe people don't know 20 dollar GPS chips provide a ~10 nanosecond resolution clock

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Re:Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync by SAI_Peregrinus on Saturday March 19, 2022 @09:44AM (#30733641)

And GPS-disciplined oven controlled crystal oscillators (OCXOs) provide some of the best frequency accuracy and stability around. They range from about a hundred dollars up through a few thousand, depending on phase noise.

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Re:Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync by _3u10 on Saturday March 19, 2022 @02:04PM (#30736050)

Haha I have no idea. But yeah just call the GPS algo a Time AI and voila, $21 m in funding to go get some kids in shenzen to put a GPS chip on a USB, PCIe, NVME slot.

Hey look we got a GPU to learn the Kalman filter algo.

Many are actually better than 10 ns basically a 1 foot CEP is 1 ns. If they are fixed and always on the accuracy it can build over a day is incredible.

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Re:Clockwork raises $21M to keep server clocks in sync by jazzyjackson on Sunday March 20, 2022 @01:37PM (#30744713)

granted it does need an unobstructed view of the sky, so getting it on a PCI-e board would be an innovation (:

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