I'm hosting VMs for HTTPS, SFTP, SSH, BitTorrent, Tor, Freenet, I2P, and RetroShare, along with build servers and mirrors for several GNU/Linux distros.
Once I get the Talos I'll be able to do this all on a single machine (it's currently a mix of alpha, amd64, and sparc64), all while giving the port maintainers a new architecture and having enough power left for myself.
Marques pls
Do you understand what astroturfing is?
Do you understand economies of scale?
You are not the target audience of this machine. This machine is for scientists, engineers, activists, and people hosting sensitive/other people's data.
The type of workloads this machine was intended to run did not include proprietary software that could not be recompiled onto any architecture. This is designed for CAD work, simulation, and high security.
Regarding the price, I think it is fair considering everything in this down to the CPU microcode itself is open source and publicly audit able. At the same time with commercial support and a name brand like IBM to get behind. Never before has there been a practical 100% open source and secure computing platform more powerful than a Raspberry Pi. Also, for data centers this means they are no longer bogged down by the reverse compatibility of machines from 1978. This also means certain workloads can be done MUCH more power efficiently on a architecture designed from the ground up with scalability and parallelism in mind instead of something originally meant to only handle no more than 640K of RAM.
If all your doing is browsing the web and archiving TV shows then by all means get a ThinkPad. If on the other hand you need to engineer a motor, model FEM data for a bridge, host TOR/I2P websites, handle medical data, Model topology maps, convert source code management repositories, compress big data, or your just sick and tired of every (only 3) X86 CPU manufacturer force installing management engines and platform security coprocessors without consent in the most expensive and power hungry way; And your ready to put your foot down then POWER9 is your answer.
Also considering this thing is built like a enterprise product and modular (4-18 cores per socket), a unit like this will last many many years.
Are you implying that Raspi is libre? Because it needs nonfree software to boot. In fact, I don't think there a single single-board computer that doesn't have some serious flaw in the freedom department.
There was the EOMA64T however it's still Raspberry Pi tier. And the nonfree components are still there just turned off. It uses an ARM ALLWINNER CPU. At least you could turn nonfree features off at all.
And no, i am not implying the RPI is completely Libre, i am just using it for comparison of computing power.
The price is fair.
A cost of a 20 thread HP workstation is $3,000
A 32 thread TALOS will cost you the same, you just have to build it yourself.
TALOS is actually an amazing deal for what it is, A WORKSTATION.
The Raspi can be libre because documentation is open, codecs are still closed though.
raspberrypi.org
The ridiculous part isn't how reasonable the price is as a workstation. The issue is a workstation for whom. Although, if a tool like this gives incentive for development on free platforms even if only in enterprise terms, it's a step in the right direction.
I look forward to purchasing these years later at a fraction of the price on ebay. I hope you rich fags choke or your "freedom".
Oh, don't worry i will. And i will enjoy it.