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How oxide cuts data center power consumption in half

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195 points tosh | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 18:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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PreInternet01 ◴[21 Nov 24 20:04 UTC] No.42208043[source]▶
"If only they used DC from the wall socket, all those H100s would be green" is, not, I think, the hill you want to die on.

But, yeah, my three 18MW/y racks agree that more power efficiency would be nice, it's just that Rewrite It In (Safe) Rust is unlikely to help with that...

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yjftsjthsd-h ◴[21 Nov 24 20:14 UTC] No.42208143[source]▶
> it's just that Rewrite It In (Safe) Rust is unlikely to help with that...

I didn't see any mention of Rust in the article?

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bigfatkitten ◴[21 Nov 24 20:40 UTC] No.42208413[source]▶
They wrote their own BMC and various other bits and pieces in Rust. That's an extremely tiny part of the whole picture.
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1. steveklabnik ◴[22 Nov 24 00:04 UTC] No.42209972[source]▶
It’s significantly more than that, but it’s also true that we include stuff in other languages where appropriate. CockroachDB is in Go, and illumos is in C, as two examples. But almost all new code we write is in Rust. That is the stuff you’re talking about, but also like, our control plane.

Oh and we write a lot of Typescript too.