When Hewlett-Packard released a similar product (rack-integrated compute), it was hard to tell if the backplane bandwidth killed it or the terrible Java management software killed it. It looks like this has a better design for each.
There doesn't seem to be a way to provision a bare metal operating system, so HPC is out, and the networking is previous-generation, so there are two opportunities for progress right there.
Now that they're VC-funded I expect an OEM to snap them up before either opportunity can be pursued.
There doesn't seem to be a way to provision a bare metal operating system, so HPC is out, and the networking is previous-generation, so there are two opportunities for progress right there.
Now that they're VC-funded I expect an OEM to snap them up before either opportunity can be pursued.