this post was submitted on 02 Dec 2023
10 points (91.7% liked)

Cloud

507 readers
2 users here now

This community was created to share news, hold discussions, insights, and knowledge sharing about cloud computing and different cloud services like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and many others.

Read our rules here

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
nibblebit@programming.dev
lysdexic@programming.dev
10
Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 11 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/loud@programming.dev
2 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] varsock@programming.dev 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I heard in their Q3 2023 quarterly earnings call that 6 years ago they left a PCIe slot free in every server so they could accommodate upgrades in the future as they grew. They were suspecting it'd be with the boom of AI/graphics cards but didn't want to commit to it yet.

Now they are plugging up that empty PCIe slot with newest gen graphics cards with their launch of Workers AI.

This is cool because they had foresight to make an uncomfortable decision initially but were able to respond to their growth objectives without spending capital expense to upgrade the entire servers.

Their recent blog on the design of the new servers is mostly around temperature, efficiency, and rack density. So unfortunately no hints at what's to come.