ARM LEBs

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• rds100 Member

  July 2012

  $1000 for an ARM server? No thanks, i prefer the Raspberry PI

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• gbshouse Member, Host Rep

  July 2012

  Hmmm I agree that the price is too high but the CPU is slightly different than in R-Pi http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/calxeda_energycore_arm_server_chip/.
  But you know 48 nodes per 4U (12nodes [servers] per 1U) it's better density than blade servers.
• yeradis Member

  July 2012

  seems interesting, the power consumption should be lower than "traditional" alternatives
• Maounique Host Rep, Veteran

  July 2012

  @gbshouse said: But you know 48 nodes per 4U (12nodes [servers] per 1U) it's better density than blade servers.

  If it comes to compare with lebs, I am sure a serious 1U server can provide more than just 12 VPSes and at higher specs than those. As for power, that depends, but i dont expect it to be so clear-cut.
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• MrAndroid Member

  July 2012

  OpenVZs ARM port is very out of date.

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• gbshouse Member, Host Rep

  July 2012

  @Maounique - 1 node = 1 physical server with 1.4GHz 32bit quad core CPU, 4GB RAM, 2x10GE network ports and 4 SATA
• gbshouse Member, Host Rep

  July 2012

  @MrLadoodle - I would think rather running Xen Cluster than OpenVZ
• MrAndroid Member

  July 2012

  @gbshouse said: @MrLadoodle - I would think rather running Xen Cluster than OpenVZ

  Possibly.
• Maounique Host Rep, Veteran

  July 2012

  @gbshouse said: @Maounique - 1 node = 1 physical server with 1.4GHz 32bit quad core CPU, 4GB RAM, 2x10GE network ports and 4 SATA

  I stand corrected, I saw an earlier version of sorts a few months ago, but this is a different animal.
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• Damian Member

  July 2012

  According to Karl Freund, vice president of marketing at Calxeda, these on-board BMCs burn anywhere from one to four watts of juice and have an average manufacturing cost of $28 per node, so integrating this on the chip cuts down on both power consumption and costs for large-scale server clusters.
  

  Whenever they get to that point, that's when it'll get quite interesting!
• rds100 Member

  July 2012

  So the manufacturing costs are $28 per node, and they sell it at $1000 per node? Nice margin...
• netomx Moderator, Veteran

  July 2012

  @rds100 said: $28 per node, and they sell it at $1000 per node?

  that's called BUSINESS
• gbshouse Member, Host Rep

  July 2012

  @Damian = "The dozen processor cards including memory burn only 300 watts." - still nice
  @rds100, @netomx - "A fully loaded Viridis server including the dozen cards (that's 48 processors and 192 cores) with a total of 192GB of main memory and two dozen disks costs $50,000." - for such large environments it's still cheap