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ARM Chips Designed For 480-Core Servers

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-tools dept.

angry tapir writes "Calxeda revealed initial details about its first ARM-based server chip, designed to let companies build low-power servers with up to 480 cores. The Calxeda chip is built on a quad-core ARM processor, and low-power servers could have 120 ARM processing nodes in a 2U box. The chips will be based on ARM's Cortex-A9 processor architecture."

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  1. Going to be expensive! by ikarys · · Score: 5, Funny

    It'll likely cost an ARM and a leg.

  2. Re:is it worth it? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cortex A9 is 250mW per core at 1GHz

    You're looking at, for a 240 core 2U node, 60W for CPUs. Pretty impressive.

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