Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
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Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#2I couldn't find anything on pricing and availability, but, despite my enthusiasm for Windows-proof servers, I am not sure if having a lot of discrete servers in a 3U enclosure is better than having a lot of containers running on, say, 3 1U servers. Containers (or even VMs) are much more manageable than 48 physically distinct machines (to say nothing of having 4 on each board, meaning an upgrade or defect on one means needles downtime for three others).
If we could turn it into a NUMA machine with 48 CPUs, that would be a totally different story.
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#3I couldn't find anything on pricing and availability, but, despite my enthusiasm for Windows-proof servers, I am not sure if having a lot of discrete servers in a 3U enclosure is better than having a lot of containers running on, say, 3 1U servers. Containers (or even VMs) are much more manageable than 48 physically distinct machines (to say nothing of having 4 on each board, meaning an upgrade or defect on one means…
It is written "there is no general availability" (even if they are shipping to selected partners).
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#4exciting days ahead, if each node costs 2digits. The cpu is 64or 32bits?
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#5This is similar offering to SuperMicro 's MicroCloud. Except with ARM instead of x86.
As much as i love ARM and want them to succeed. I dont think there are any advantage of using ARM in Server apart from Cost. And Since ARM is still vastly under power for many Web Server Operation its time just isn't here. May be two - three years later when 64Bit ARM with EightCore Chip costing less then $50 dollars. But even so Intel's Atom would have a similar performance with similar price. According to some new test on the Soon to be available 8 Core Atom for Server it is surprisingly performance / watt.
To simply put, the server market has longed for a low power part for certain type of usage scenario. And Intel will soon has that covered.
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#6exciting days ahead, if each node costs 2digits. The cpu is 64or 32bits?
With 8GB of ram, I'd assume that they are 64bit.
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#7exciting days ahead, if each node costs 2digits. The cpu is 64or 32bits?
It says it's got Marvell Armada XP CPUs, which are ARMv7 CPUs, therefore 32-bit instruction set (the 64-bit instruction set was introduced in ARMv8).
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#9They left out two most critical bits of info: power consumption and price. You can already get ridiculous amounts of x86 cores in a rack if you want, but those can get pricy to buy and to keep running.
Re: Copper enables the ARM server ecosystem
#10Not being an expert on servers, I can see a possible use-case for low-power servers like this: strongly disk-bound tasks (e.g. infrequently accessible storage area).
Although, a cost analysis might be required- I suspect that a more powerful CPU with a lot more disks may end up costing less (per unit of disk space vs total power consumption).