Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer

Name: Stanford Seminar - The Soul of a New Machine: Rethinking the Computer
Description: Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer Company gives a Stanford EE380 talk on rethinking the server. He argues that hyperscaler-style rack-scale machines with open firmware, RISC-V and Rust should be available to everyone, not just the giants.

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Bryan Cantrill of Oxide Computer Company gives a Stanford EE380 talk on rethinking the server. He argues that hyperscaler-style rack-scale machines with open firmware, RISC-V and Rust should be available to everyone, not just the giants.

HN points to it as the founders' own explanation of what Oxide is building and why, a frequent link whenever Oxide comes up.

14 Hacker News mentions · 2020–2025

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Computer architecture & CPUs
Cloud, DevOps & reliability
C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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