What is the advantage of a half width server?
I mean with all the connectors on it it isn't like you can put two of em into a 1U slot.
32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
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Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#22What is the advantage of a half width server? I mean with all the connectors on it it isn't like you can put two of em into a 1U slot.
Rack then w/ ports out. And you can put two back to back.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#23What is the advantage of a half width server? I mean with all the connectors on it it isn't like you can put two of em into a 1U slot.
Half depth, not width. Everything comes out the front, so you mount them back-to-back in a rack.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#24The picture shows 8 tiny fans mounted inside (not counting the fan probably inside the PS)
I would have thought that part of the reason for going to ARM is the low power - hopefully no moving parts. It would have been cool (ha) to see them pull it off without fans.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#252GB per node - not enough IMHO (at least for the use I was thinking of ).
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#26What is the advantage of a half width server? I mean with all the connectors on it it isn't like you can put two of em into a 1U slot.
Half depth, not width. Everything comes out the front, so you mount them back-to-back in a rack.
Been a while since I was heavily involved in high-density data centers... How does that work with traditional hot aisle/cold aisle layouts? Seems like you'd need to adjust the cooling to have an air channel up the middle of the rack?
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#27Imagine a Beowulf of those!
I know you meant that as a joke, but I'd imagine one of these really would be an excellent candidate for being turned into a cluster.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#28Not a 32 core computer. It's 8 4-core SoCs with independent storage connected by a 5 Gbps network switch. Not a useless machine (it's a cheap way to buy lots of DRAM bandwidth, I'll note), but not what the headline is selling as.
So each quad-core SoC appears to the outside world as its own system and only communicates via Ethernet? Not useless at all, but it's not clear how the SoCs are presented.
Yeah, it's eight individual systems with two very fast Ethernet links to an on-board managed switch.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#29Not a 32 core computer. It's 8 4-core SoCs with independent storage connected by a 5 Gbps network switch. Not a useless machine (it's a cheap way to buy lots of DRAM bandwidth, I'll note), but not what the headline is selling as.
With the right software and if you don't look it from too close, it can be considered a single computer.
We've been doing things like these for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMScluster
Yes, I'm that old.
Re: 32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case
#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Half depth, not width. Everything comes out the front, so you mount them back-to-back in a rack.
Been a while since I was heavily involved in high-density data centers... How does that work with traditional hot aisle/cold aisle layouts? Seems like you'd need to adjust the cooling to have an air channel up the middle of the rack?
You could do, or have one of them exhaust to its "front", and the other exhaust to its "back".