product request Mini-Rack-Cluster-On-Chip and Mini-Rack-Cluster appliance for families/SOHOs #298
Description
Mr. Geerling, we are like-minded. We both aspire for hardware to empower families/SOHOs at home.
I feel obligated to crystallize what I believe all families/SOHOs really want at home, but don't know it yet:
-64-core cpus
-self-hosted AI
-self-hosted NAS
-Enterprise-class hardware designed to reside within a home/apartment that doesn't blow the breaker in the fuse box
-your mini-rack videos come very close but the number of cores in each COM module and the amount of ram in each COM module I deem insufficient. We all need xeon/epyc class core count and ram packaged into one COM module, then have one of those funky cluster boards connect 4 of these COM modules together and give us the equivalent of a rack cluster in a form factor smaller than "banker's storage box" essentially like you have already made. It would be able to run the buzzword file systems and buzzword virtualization infrastructures that would empower ALL households to run whatever they want and easily replace whatever storage device dies without losing their family/SOHO data.
The mini-pc market being sold to us is not the LOWEST-COMMON-DENOMINATOR households need nor want.
What households really need, but don't know it yet are MINI-RACK-CLUSTERs and if possible in a mini-pc form-factor. I prefer the term MINI-RACK-CLUSTER because the actual appliance is a cluster of 4 rack-server-capability-like COM-Modules seated on a special cluster board.
If RISC-V is open-hardware and nimble, couldn't they plan a RACK-CLUSTER-on-chip? Everything 4 COM modules would have with a cluster board, but in one single chip? Then make a small box out of that for families/SOHOs. That's my "kid in a candystore wish" is for RISC-V community to bring first to market RACK-CLUSTER-on-chip.
I'm interested in replacing whatever I own with something ONCE-AND-FOR-ALL that outlasts my lifetime as a legacy in the household resisting "planned obsolescence".
All households have a requirement for something like that even if they don't know it yet.
I would love to resell these if ever you succeed in building a Mini-Rack-Cluster appliance with 64 cores/64GB in each COM module. Cheers, David Marceau