[mk_stjames]

Whenever I see press on these new 'rack scale' systems, the first thing I think is something along the lines of: "man I hope the BIOS and OS's and whatnot supporting these racks are relatively robust and documented/open sourced enough so that 40 years from now when you can buy an entire rack system for $500, some kid in a garage will be able to boot and run code on these".

[criemen]

What's the power hookup to just boot one rack? I'd imagine that's more than you get anywhere in residential areas for a single house.

[embedding-shape]

Hopefully in 40 years we'll all be running miniature cold fusion power or something, so we can avoid burning the planet to the ground.

[MisterTea]

Depends on the residence. I have personally seen a large house in Brooklyn with dual 200 amp 120/208 volt three phase services (two meters, each feeding a panel.) I have seen someone setup an old SGI rack scale Origin 3000 systems in their garage. I think they even had an electrician upgrade their service to accommodate it.

[wmf]

170 kW

[pureagave]

100% this. But don't forget the garden hose running full blast so you can cool it! It's not impossible to get up and running for fun for an hour, but this isn't a run 24/7 kinda setup any more than getting an old mainframe running in one's garage is practical.

[wmf]

The firmware is UEFI and Vera should have good upstream support. The GPU driver is proprietary though, so you'll have to dig up the last supported version from 2036.