OT: 96-core 1U ARM server
Pete Wright
pete at nomadlogic.org
Fri Apr 7 17:45:33 UTC 2017
On 04/07/2017 10:35, Jim Thompson wrote:
> ThunderX, best application right now is "scale out" web loads.
> They start at a single socket for under $3,000
> http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?2465022_g10e
>
> You could try to buy it directly from Gigabyte:
> http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Rack-Server/ARM-SoC
>
> If you can't get inside, lmk, and I'll put you in touch with our mfg rep
> for them.
I was pretty impressed with my R&D thunderx system. def agree on the
worklaod type - using it for compilation or other cpu intensive tasks it
was a bit slower than comparable intel CPU's (Xeon E5-xxxx class). but
we had a heavily multi-threaded, network intensive workload that it did
a pretty good job handling. the embedded 40Gig NIC on our R&D unit was
pretty impressive as well, as was power draw in our lab.
sadly i left that gig before i had a chance to advocate to get it into
prod - kinda wish i still worked at that job for all the fun hardware i
had access to :)
-pete
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