[Info-vax] OpenVMS Potential Platform of Interest: Intel NUCs

[Bob Gezelter]

On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 3:58:57 PM UTC-4, xyzz... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, June 27, 2022 at 7:44:36 AM UTC-4, geze... at rlgsc.com wrote: 
> > A small form factor box like this would be a good platform for OpenVMS in a wide variety of customer and developer contexts. Using it as a VM host would be a good starting point Some complexity would be reduced by direct support for bare hardware operation. 
> > 
> > https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/leak-of-next-gen-intel-nuc-combines-a-12th-gen-cpu-with-intels-discrete-arc-gpu/
> Yikes $1400 with old graphics?!?! 
> 
> And I keep hearing the Three Stooges saying "Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk".
Given the application, the graphics processor is way overpowered for the majority of applications. In present OpenVMS contexts, the GPU is not particularly helpful.

Getting a NUC without the GPU would be more expensive than just letting the GPU be idle.

Could be used for an onsite  nano server farm.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com