[gentoo-user] OT: HP ARM servers

[gentoo-user] OT: HP ARM servers

[James]

Here you go.

ARM marches into the server arena:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-26/hewlett-packard-said-to-plan-arm-based-servers-in-challenge-to-intel-tech.html?cmpid=yhoo

When the A15 cores are released, it's going to get
pretty interesting on the low power side of servers
and clusters....

Raul has provided a choice of ARM netbooks and such
 running embedded gentoo:

http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/pandaboard/install.xml
http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml
http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/tegra2/install.xml
http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/trimslice/install.xml


ViVa la`revolution!
James

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HP ARM servers

[Michael Mol]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:21 PM, James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Here you go.
>
> ARM marches into the server arena:
>
> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-26/hewlett-packard-said-to-plan-arm-based-servers-in-challenge-to-intel-tech.html?cmpid=yhoo
>
> When the A15 cores are released, it's going to get
> pretty interesting on the low power side of servers
> and clusters....
>
> Raul has provided a choice of ARM netbooks and such
>  running embedded gentoo:
>
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/pandaboard/install.xml
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/sheevaplug/install.xml
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/tegra2/install.xml
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/trimslice/install.xml

Does this mean we may start seeing ARM processors that could take over
the role of x86 on desktop systems?

I don't know that much about ARM...

-- 
:wq

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: HP ARM servers

[James]

Michael Mol <mikemol <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/tegra2/install.xml
> > http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/arm/trimslice/install.xml
> Does this mean we may start seeing ARM processors that could take over
> the role of x86 on desktop systems?

The trimslice is a (mini) workstation.

> I don't know that much about ARM...

The current Arm 9 processors are more like the intel atom
or a chip from via; similar performance.

When the A15 arrives in less than a year, that is the
chip where the memory and graphics buss bandwidths
are on par with Intel and AMD.


The killer hardware for arm is clustering all on one
mobo that is LOW POWER. Ultimately, the greatest performance
will come from the processors with the lowest power consumption
per MIP . ARM is the leader in that category. That's
why windows 8 is ported (in testing) on ARM hardware.

ARM is under most Android systems and is the dominant processor
for low power and mobility communication systems.

Here are a few:
ASUS Eee transformer
Toshiba AC100 
Trimslice mini workstation
Nufront ARM Powered Laptops (ubunto)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luB2G2-CZPA

A15:
http://armdevices.net/2011/10/27/latest-news-from-texas-instruments-at-arm-techcon-2011/


hth,
James