Shades of the mainframe era, no?

According to Antonio Neri, CEO of HPE,

“This is unique. None of the cloud providers—public cloud or other competitors—are offering what we call Silicon on Demand. What that means is with a single click I can turn cores on and off. If I need more cores, I turn it on. If I need less cores, I turn it off.

Today we go at this at the virtual or container level. Now I am taking this to the silicon level. That is a significant improvement because we know there is a lack of utilization trapped in your infrastructure.

We believe we can take it to the smallest amount of unit you can think about—the core level. So we are introducing what we call Silicon on Demand, which is a partnership with Intel. Intel is doing that just with us at least for now because they know we are a unique vendor that has a huge advantage in as a service with software and metering capabilities nobody else has in the market that allows us to measure at the core level. Therefore in a true pay per use we can turn on and off cores.”

I dunno.

Based on what I have been able to glean so far, it reminds me of something AMD or Intel tried to bring to market a while back, and it doesn’t see worth the buzz/hype/expended ink.

I’m not feeling it.

Here is Neri talking about it.

As that lunkhead Kanye might say, “Ima need more info.”.

I do.

Still not feelin’ it.

Q.E.D.

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This article originally appeared in the July 2021 issue of The Interlocutor.