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ARM In the Datacenter Isn't Dead Yet (theregister.co.uk)
prpplague writes: Despite Linus Torvald's recent claims ARM won't win in the server space, there are very specific use cases where ARM is making advances into the datacenter. One of those is for use with software-defined storage with open-source projects like CEPH. In a recent The Register article, Softiron's CTO Phil Straw states about their ARM-based CEPH appliances: "It's a totally shitty computer, but what we are trying to do here is storage, and not compute, so when you look at the IO, when you look at the buffering, when you look at the data paths, there's amazing performance -- we can approach something like a quarter of a petabyte, at 200Gbps wireline throughput." Straw claimed that, on average, SoftIron servers run 25C cooler than a comparable system powered by Xeons." So... ARM in the datacenter might be saying, "I'm not quite dead yet!"
Wait for the new generation of Amiga computers :-)
There's a disembodied zombie ARM in the datacenter! Oh God, it's not dead yet and, ... and it's coming for us!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH THE DOOR IS LOCKED!!!
Well, technically you'd have to say he observes, then opines (literally "to state as one's own opinion"). If all he ever did was observe then we'd never know, would we?
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