The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
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#2These things look awesome, but are pretty expensive, still. I'd love to put an ARM server in my homelab, but the price range between 100$ (RPi & Co) and 10000$ (enterprise server) seems pretty empty right now :/
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#3So, what OS do these run? Is it oem provided custom kernels or third party?
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#4I love seeing those alternatives to x86, Intel an AMD showing up.
After long years of nothing exciting on the CPU side until AMD released Zen, now the M1 from Apple and this, hardware feels exciting again.
I also really like the fact that Ampere cpus are not something that will only live in one ecosystem (like the graviton that will, i guess, never exists outside of AWS or the M1 outside of Apple products).
I really hope something similar is going to show up for PC as well.
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#5So, what OS do these run? Is it oem provided custom kernels or third party?
Runs Linux natively it seems: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...
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#6I love seeing those alternatives to x86, Intel an AMD showing up. After long years of nothing exciting on the CPU side until AMD released Zen, now the M1 from Apple and this, hardware feels exciting again. I also really like the fact that Ampere cpus are not something that will only live in one ecosystem (like the graviton that will, i guess, never exists outside of AWS or the M1 outside of Apple products). I really…
There's an interesting rumor that says AMD is building an ARM SoC for OEMs...
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#7This is interesting to see another company take a crack at super-density. Scaleway famously entered this market in 2017 only to leave it in 2020 citing reliability issues [1]
Such is the churn and iteration to challenge x86. I welcome it.
[1] - https://www.theregister.com/2020/04/21/scaleway_arm64_cloud_...
Re: The Ampere Altra Review: 2x 80 Cores Arm Server Performance Monster
#8I love seeing those alternatives to x86, Intel an AMD showing up. After long years of nothing exciting on the CPU side until AMD released Zen, now the M1 from Apple and this, hardware feels exciting again. I also really like the fact that Ampere cpus are not something that will only live in one ecosystem (like the graviton that will, i guess, never exists outside of AWS or the M1 outside of Apple products). I really…
There's an interesting rumor that says AMD is building an ARM SoC for OEMs...
If I were them I wouldn't even bother with anything pre-Arm v9. That's going to draw all the hype, especially when Apple announces the Arm v9-based M2 next year.
And then I'm sure most sheep-like OEMs will say "Oh, we want THAT, too. Where is it - we want it yesterday!" But AMD won't be able to provide one too soon, because they would've gone all in on Arm v8, and they'd want to squeeze at least a couple of generations out of that microarchitecture.
Something similar happened when Apple announced the first Armv8 processor and it took Qualcomm and all the rest 2 years to catch-up.
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#9So, what OS do these run? Is it oem provided custom kernels or third party?
Runs Linux natively it seems: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ampere-a...
Wow. Never knew Linux architecture allowed it to scale on hardware in such a way.
Edit : I know Linux is customized to run on a variety of hardware, I was just pointing out that I never knew you could install Ubuntu on the mentioned hardware and have it take advantage of the available hardware, given that it has specialized hardware.
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#10These things look awesome, but are pretty expensive, still. I'd love to put an ARM server in my homelab, but the price range between 100$ (RPi & Co) and 10000$ (enterprise server) seems pretty empty right now :/
Just wait for virtualization on M1 Mac.