256 Cores in a Pizza Box! Half-Depth H242 Gigabyte Overview

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  • Опубліковано 2 кві 2023
  • Wendell takes a look at the Gigabyte H242-Z11, a small edge compute server with serious power!
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  • @SomeTechGuy666
    @SomeTechGuy666 Рік тому +54

    I'd love to see you do an episode or 3 on specing and buying used server equipment. The new stuff is great, but too expensive for a lot of use cases. Especially given the price of used stuff these days.

    • @AchwaqKhalid
      @AchwaqKhalid Рік тому +2

      Just watch out for DELL vendor locked setups ⚠️

  • @danielbarnes3406
    @danielbarnes3406 Рік тому +8

    If you're curious about pricing, Silicon Mechanics has a configurator. Prices range from $11.5k to $75k for CPU and memory BEFORE adding storage and networking.

  • @starfleetactual1909
    @starfleetactual1909 Рік тому +7

    Don't understand 90 percent of this but I feel smarter listening to him.

  • @BogdanTestsSoftware
    @BogdanTestsSoftware Рік тому +9

    Wendell, we need to talk about the size of US pizza boxes!

  • @amateurwizard
    @amateurwizard Рік тому +13

    It's lilliputian!

    • @MikeBohde
      @MikeBohde Рік тому +1

      That's the key word in the level 1 drinking game. Now we must all finish our drinks.

  • @willkern6
    @willkern6 Рік тому +2

    Love the added Star Trek clip... was waiting for another when you mentioned "assimilating" hadware into Azure :)

  • @ShawnFuryan
    @ShawnFuryan Рік тому +5

    I would love to see some practical demonstrations comparing a big memory dual socket 128-core configuration against a 4x32 core hyperconverged cluster. It would be really interesting to see where the cluster performs surprisingly well, and where it falls down.

  • @kazriko
    @kazriko Рік тому +5

    "There are still people rocking surprising large clusters on dual 10gigabit"
    *looks at my little 32 core opteron NAS with dual 1gigabit...* I guess mine is not surprisingly large at least.

    • @mechy2k2000
      @mechy2k2000 Рік тому +2

      How much power is the opteron using?

  • @stephenreaves3205
    @stephenreaves3205 Рік тому +8

    I would love to see OpenShift running on this. Especially comparing Assisted Installer + Machine Configs vs Tinkerbell

  • @ajhieb
    @ajhieb Рік тому +1

    Reminds me of the old SGi/Rackable half depth servers with the i/o in the front. A 2U half depth dual xeon and a half depth 16bay disk shelf was my first homelab. (both heavily modded for noise considerations)

  • @wyattarich
    @wyattarich Рік тому

    I desperately want to see XCP-ng running on this! Great video as always.

  • @jean-paulpitman2172
    @jean-paulpitman2172 Рік тому +1

    The fans on that coffee table may make conversation a challenge.

  • @IAmPattycakes
    @IAmPattycakes Рік тому

    Definitely wouldn't mind a quick look at Rancher and Harvester, taking a look at that vs VMware/IBM solutions.

  • @pkt1213
    @pkt1213 Рік тому +8

    I love this. So many things I could do. Too bad Dell and HP are the only servers on the approved product list and I still had to jump through hoops to get Milan instead of Ice Lake (silvers I think).

    • @jonas000111
      @jonas000111 Рік тому

      The video just hit UA-cam an hour ago and your comment is 4 days old? 😮 Are you a time traveling lizard person?

    • @zepesh
      @zepesh Рік тому +2

      @@jonas000111 Patreon

    • @pkt1213
      @pkt1213 Рік тому +2

      @zepesh I prefer time‐traveling, lizard, magician.

    • @zepesh
      @zepesh Рік тому

      @@pkt1213 what they don't know is that patreons also become time‐traveling lizard magicians.

  • @henderstech
    @henderstech Рік тому

    I wish I could be around some of these servers. I want to check them out so bad lol.

  • @malikknight
    @malikknight Рік тому +5

    Please make a proxmox cluster, and then show us a live node failure by removing an node/ or simulating a component failure!

  • @elcolin_
    @elcolin_ Рік тому +1

    Looks awesome, but no pricing is available anywhere I've searched thus far. What are we looking at for entry level spec hardware configs pricing wise?

  • @CyFr
    @CyFr Рік тому

    I double dog dare Level1 to build a server in a pizza box.

  • @marcin_karwinski
    @marcin_karwinski Рік тому +2

    I wonder which Kubernetes on bare metal OS would suit these best... K3OS, Talos or RancherOS... Perhaps Rancher due to available ZFS storage or Longhorn for workloads storage, and yet kind of simplified OS-level tasks with Kubernetes focused bare-metal deployment. And then run VMs inside Kubernetes, not the other way round so not VMs to comprise Kubernetes cluster... Regardless, if only I won a lottery!

  • @jmd1743
    @jmd1743 Рік тому

    Are nodes the new blade? How does something like compare to those HP Apollo system?

  • @dunastrig1889
    @dunastrig1889 Рік тому

    Woot!

  • @callowaysutton
    @callowaysutton Рік тому

    Kinda curious what your opinion on Canonical's MAAS (Metal as a Service) and Juju stack line up fairs against Tinkerbell :P

  • @paulmulqueen
    @paulmulqueen Рік тому +2

    can you run a single program, that needs parallel computing, and get the benefit of all 256 cores working together?

  • @lukabozic5
    @lukabozic5 Рік тому

    Man what an easy job would be to run sims at home if I had one of these bad boys haha

  • @hedrickwetshaves1997
    @hedrickwetshaves1997 Рік тому +1

    Please could someone explain the difference in what Floating Point Sixty Four or I n t Eight etc can and cannot do? I'm trying to properly compare a smartphone, Supercomputer, and gaming hardware and understand the difference in computing. Oh, and what is Matrix Floating Point computing?

  • @C.J.G.
    @C.J.G. Рік тому +2

    What's power consumption like?

  • @valentinzeller8439
    @valentinzeller8439 Рік тому +2

    Yeah Booooiiii. You lost some weight. Im proud.

    • @shiddygaymer
      @shiddygaymer Рік тому

      i was kind of thinking the same thing

  • @chrismoore9997
    @chrismoore9997 Рік тому +1

    What about using it to build a supercomputer cluster?

  • @dreamcat4
    @dreamcat4 Рік тому

    speaking of the OS to run on those things.... how about TALOS os then? Would that work well / compare favorably or not onto those things? (as a bare metal OS)

  • @Wesrl
    @Wesrl Рік тому

    I can fit so many PBXs or PAC on this set up.

  • @mrfilipelaureanoaguiar
    @mrfilipelaureanoaguiar Рік тому

    Nodes with all network cards open is fun with render farm. A lot of power even if AMD think they efficient they not that much mostly SP3 compared to the new ones. Doesn't look like but splitting the heatsinks is better than splitting the CCX with a bit of OC😎

  • @acquacow
    @acquacow Рік тому

    This makes my C6100 really look like the relic that it is...

  • @leviathanpriim3951
    @leviathanpriim3951 Рік тому

    that is super cool

  • @declanmcardle
    @declanmcardle Рік тому

    @13:25 Infrastructure As eXcel? I don't know who'll sue first, MS or Hashi?

  • @4brigger
    @4brigger Рік тому +3

    ah yes, chat

  • @catriona_drummond
    @catriona_drummond Рік тому +2

    How loud is it? :P

  • @0x80O0oOverfl0w
    @0x80O0oOverfl0w Рік тому

    I was really hoping this was going to be about the dual processor 128 core Ampere Altra Max... Still interesting though.

  • @lorddemancio
    @lorddemancio Рік тому

    Looks almost exactly like a Rubrik Cluster

  • @patriklindahl4991
    @patriklindahl4991 Рік тому

    Hyperconverged Proxmox or XCP-NG would be nice

  • @keyboard_g
    @keyboard_g Рік тому

    The Broadcom VmWare deal did not go through yet, and its looking like it never will.

  • @dustinkrejci6142
    @dustinkrejci6142 Рік тому +1

    Can I run a Kubernetes datacenter with them, and have DNS server containers to be running off the Kubernetes cluster that is in the edge with these things? geographically this hardware would be in the Philippines for my thought experiment. Philippines is a nightmare for datacenter stuff...

    • @IAmPattycakes
      @IAmPattycakes Рік тому

      Speaking from personal experience, yeah running a k3s cluster and having an external DNS *with a static IP* external to it works great. Definitely don't be using your DNS to resolve your DNS, that can get a bit iffy

    • @dustinkrejci6142
      @dustinkrejci6142 Рік тому

      @@IAmPattycakes please explain. i am trying to set up a internal and externally pain membership Paas-SaaS.

  • @smoshGaming
    @smoshGaming Рік тому

    Ngl you guys either need a gimbal or to stick to static cam shots. Just my person preference

  • @LA-MJ
    @LA-MJ Рік тому

    "Cepth at home" video would be nice

  • @antonmuffin6214
    @antonmuffin6214 Рік тому

    If only I had that kind of money for that stuff😅

  • @declanmcardle
    @declanmcardle Рік тому

    Assimilate & Borg reference in one video? 🙂

  • @chriswright8074
    @chriswright8074 Рік тому

    Usb 5?

  • @ThunderKat
    @ThunderKat Рік тому

    I never stop wondering when I see this expensive server racks, can it run Crysis?
    Seen Crysis running on a quantum computer would be the day...

  • @nellermann
    @nellermann Рік тому

    Can you imagine if you wanted to put Windows Server on this, what the license cost would be!

  • @kristopherleslie8343
    @kristopherleslie8343 Рік тому

    I need 4 of those

  • @MrSiddhartha99
    @MrSiddhartha99 Рік тому

    quoram witness these are require for windows clustering... You don't need a quoram witness for VMware cluster ..even you can run VMware cluster in a single Datastore

  • @thetj8243
    @thetj8243 Рік тому +1

    "what's their minimum specification" 🎉

  • @shanent5793
    @shanent5793 Рік тому +1

    I don't love 200ns synchronization latency

  • @Neo7_
    @Neo7_ Рік тому +2

    It's funny that Oracle is anal about enforcing it's legal policies and yet they themselves do fuck all to comply with FCC rules regarding spam email.

  • @ramananiranjan1729
    @ramananiranjan1729 Рік тому

    I don't understand how half depth servers are useful or needed, because the rack is still full depth so surely you'll just have empty space at back of your rack? I feel like I am missing something here...

  • @Stopinvadingmyhardware
    @Stopinvadingmyhardware Рік тому +1

    Does it run Crysis?

  • @DJ-Daz
    @DJ-Daz Рік тому

    Costs a bit more than a pizza though. Hell, I could order a pizza from New York, get it flown to the UK for less.
    If course, I'd destroy the pizza in 20 minutes, this might last a bit longer.

  • @jonas000111
    @jonas000111 Рік тому +2

    I wouldn't call 2u a pizza box

  • @JBrinx18
    @JBrinx18 Рік тому

    They didn't package it with a PSU I hope? 😂

  • @wizpig64
    @wizpig64 Рік тому

    Perfect for a Lack Rack

  • @georgebrandon7696
    @georgebrandon7696 Рік тому

    This is where Gigabyte's focus is. The enterprise. Zero support and backing for their consumer products. They sit on and never return their esupport messages. A big Eff U to consumers.

  • @sideffect8
    @sideffect8 Рік тому

    Render Farm!

  • @denvera1g1
    @denvera1g1 Рік тому

    Remember when you could chose between PCIe slots with 1 sicket, and 2 CPU sockets without PCIe slots on these 4 node systems?
    Just saying gigabyte, maybe take a note out of the Dell CloudEdge C6100 book, drop the full sized PCIe slots for 512 cores in a 2U chassis, you could still have 24 U.2 drives in the front, or... what 64 of those E1.S SSDs

    • @denvera1g1
      @denvera1g1 Рік тому

      Heck, if you didnt need front IO, you could fit ~72 E1.S drives in the front, make the chassis as long as the monster that was the cloud edge C2100 and you could fit 30+TB E1.L drives in there
      oddly the C2100 was only a single node despite being the longest standard server i've ever seen, i have seen non-standard servers that were too wide to fit in a normal rack that were longer, 1U with 4 non-swappable nodes, but the C2100 i bought (used) required a special adjustable 4 post rack and special extended rails for all my other servers, If i had the thing still i'd measure it but there is no way the internet is correct in saying it is 28 inches deep, i remember struggling to get my hands to both ends when lifting it into the recycle so i'd say it is 60+ inches deep
      What i'm going to do is measure the depth of that adjustable rack, because i know it did stick out behind the actual posts. If those posts are only 25 inches apart then i'll know i'm just remembering the wrong server.

  • @FLOODOFSINS
    @FLOODOFSINS Рік тому +1

    Great video! I bet this video will not perform very well but I still appreciate it. This is one of the few channels that could answer this highly technical question for me. Is it possible to install a AMD inside sticker on to a Gordon Moore coffin?

  • @ewenchan1239
    @ewenchan1239 Рік тому

    I want to see how well it will handle virtio-fs in Proxmox