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ARM-Based Servers Coming In 2011

Posted by timothy on from the leg-and-torso-on-the-way dept.

markass530 writes with this from the EE Times: "Arm Holdings chief executive officer Warren East told EE Times Wednesday that servers based on ARM multicore processors should arrive within the next twelve months. The news confirms previous speculation stemming from Google's acquisition of Agnilux and a recent job advertisement posted by Microsoft. East said that the current architecture, designed for client-side computing, can also be used in server applications."

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  1. To serve what by wmac · · Score: 0, Troll

    ARM based servers are coming to serve what?

    ARM is not even that suitable for a PC. On a server you need multiple fast cores and good I/O. Which of these are provided by an existing ARM CPU?

    In my opinion if there are 10 fields that ARM can be used , this one is the worse.

    1. Re:To serve what by wmac · · Score: 0, Troll

      I am more than fine with that. But the question that what it is going to serve remains there.

      We need to see what applications can be run on such a server? By focusing on idle power we are talking about an application server which is being used a limited period of the day? Or a server which is rarely used?

      Otherwise, even a mobile phone can be used as a server. In fact we used mobile phones as grid computing nodes in our lab (which serve computing power to the grid). But it was just something to prove such a crazy idea is possible but not practical necessarily)

  2. Re:What are we to do with these? by kestasjk · · Score: 0, Troll

    I agree, and I still don't get the justification. I'm guessing it's liberal use of the word "server".

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