32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case(baserock.com) |
32 cores of fast ARM in half-depth 1U case(baserock.com) |
[1]: http://www.calxeda.com/technology/products/energycards/quadn...
[2]: http://semiaccurate.com/2011/11/03/calxeda-launches-a-4-core...
[3]: http://www.calxeda.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/EnergyCard...
[1] http://tilera.com/products/processors/TILE-Gx_Family [2] http://tilera.com/products/platforms [3] http://www.tilera.com/technology
There were other companies like Tilera: Transputer, Connection Machine.......SiCortex was founded in 2003 with a similar idea and was shutting down by 2009
The problems with these architectures is cost: mass market tech like x86 and ARM offers more bang for your buck
It is an interesting system though.
[1]: http://www.boston.co.uk/solutions/viridis/default.aspx
[2]: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/09/boston_viridis_arm_s...
We've been doing things like these for decades.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMScluster
Yes, I'm that old.
If an individual server fails then your service shouldn't even blink.
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.
I mean with all the connectors on it it isn't like you can put two of em into a 1U slot.
Important things to note is that each of the nodes in this Slab have their own local SATA solid-state storage, and the individual CPUs are quicker. The Boston thing has higher density though.
*Note I am used to normal data-centers but not high density stuff. I don't know of the special provisions a high-density setup would have.
They're ARMs, they don't need much cooling anyway.