Comments on: See what cloud can do! Dell unveils ARM servers

By: dave

dave — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:40:53 +0000

LOL and when i say HP i mean OC
Dell not that it makes much difference as they both design bad SLED usage usually.

By: dave

dave — Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:23:14 +0000

while its nice to finally see some arm cores in the server space for profit, as usual HP didn’t do a good job of their sled design , remember that its a 3U case and so there is plenty of room in the active PCB space to put far more ARM SOC in there, namely i would have placed at least 8 standard quad ARM cortex SOCS on generic SO-DIMM form factor slots in that space alongside more ram slots for a start…
http://armdevices.net/2011/03/04/toradex-shows-tegra2-computer-on-so-dimm-form-factor/ style, that way you can start with half populated slots for the current 4 SOC/16core sled product and populated that with more ARM SOC on so-dimm as time passes.

also i see a large problem with HP picking the marvel ARMADA XP series SOC as ARMADA XP do NOT have or ever had a generic NEON SIMD unit inside unlike all Cortex SOC to date and so many of the Linaro NEON SIMD optimization’s for all the current ARM linux NEON SIMD optimised distro’s will OC not function in these servers so making them look far slower than they could be in real life workloads , “NO NEON NO Good” is the lesson here as even Nvidia discovered and replaced they older Tegra 2 SOCs without NEON SIMD PDQ.

By: Tech Marketer

Tech Marketer — Wed, 30 May 2012 22:32:08 +0000

Great information. Today, there are many companies offering hosted virtual servers. But choosing the right cloud service provider is the main key.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Wed, 30 May 2012 01:16:29 +0000

Brett is a know troll on the site. No one sponsors our articles, and your point below on workloads is a good one. I’ve covered that before in some of my other posts on eaMicro and the microserver segment in general.

By: deeceefar2

deeceefar2 — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:53:59 +0000

This is further evidence of the change in computing scale and the markets behind the scenes responding. The reality is that for the majority of web server workloads processors such as these are more then adequate. With a cheaper total cost of ownership, this is going to be one of many different specialized processor markets that are cropping up in the gaps of the previous computing paradigms. When you get to cloud scale the economics change such that it no longer makes since to lock yourself to traditional server configurations, and there is plenty of new innovation left in the in between server markets.

By: deeceefar2

deeceefar2 — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:47:02 +0000

While I will agree with you that some of the posts on GigaOm seem very much vendor drivel, and don’t seem editorial or journalistic in nature. I definitely think you have the sponsors incorrect. I don’t see any evidence of the bias being toward Google, so why don’t you enlighten us about your proof that Google is the sponsor of the above article article.

By: JohnG

JohnG — Tue, 29 May 2012 17:02:13 +0000

And of course 1.6GHz is just the start of the conversation – not the middle or the end. Expect to see 40-bit and 64-bit ARM processors coming to the market far faster than people expect

By: Keith Townsend

Keith Townsend — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:53:59 +0000

Wasn’t going to comment on the story until I saw this post. I can’t say if GigaOm has an hidden agenda or not but more competition isn’t just good for Google it’s good for consumers of cloud services as well. It’s bad for Intel and AMD.

There is a place for systems with “1.6 GHz of performance” if these processors are efficient at what they do then there’s a place for them in the market. Believe me that Dell will discover if there’s not.