Comments on: Lenovo TruScale Enables Silicon-as-a-Service by Intel https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-truscale-enables-silicon-as-a-service-by-intel/ Server and Workstation Reviews Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:16:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Marcin Karwiński https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-truscale-enables-silicon-as-a-service-by-intel/#comment-475479 Sat, 06 Nov 2021 10:16:53 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=55828#comment-475479 Seems to me like a solution to the ever growing pains in licensing fees for per core software deployments – being able to fill the DC with same hardware and then quickly and easily switch actual visible/reported core counts brings the vritualisation vCPU paradigm to the hardware/firmware level without the virtualisation costs… Or in other words an option to get stable revenue for using an expensive piece of gear from Lenovo that software vendors are also billing for running their code on – I guess it might make sense if the balancing act of pricing is in favor of the currently more expensive but then in near future, when revenue and compute requirements increase, unlockable HW. Buying a lot of same gear can allow for better deals on corporate/enterprise levels of purchasing, but TCO may then be adjusted on the fly… Guess the Cloud of Hardware may find some adoption rates ;)

]]> By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus https://www.servethehome.com/lenovo-truscale-enables-silicon-as-a-service-by-intel/#comment-475043 Sat, 11 Sep 2021 20:37:32 +0000 https://www.servethehome.com/?p=55828#comment-475043 Is there any word on how PDU-level power metering as a pricing metric is going to take things like accelerator cards and storage options into account?

I don’t doubt that they can pick out differences in CPU utilization between like-for-like systems; but it’s definitely not hard to pick non-CPU components that change the system’s power draw considerably more than a couple of CPU SKU bumps in one direction or the other would. Is the offer contingent on CPU power being the only thing that the customer might want to change over the lifetime of the hardware, or do they have some other mechanisms in place?

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