• HP announces ARM-based servers
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[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/technology-15540910[/url]
I take it this means the Atom is now ousted from the blade server market?
Imagine running a server on this: [url]http://www.amazon.com/Bird-X-SOLPAN5W-5-Watt-Solar-Power/dp/B001FB6RFK[/url]
competition for intel, even though it won't affect common folk like most of facepunch intel's R&D adventures surely will fruitful for us all.
[QUOTE=Sam Za Nemesis;33078670]By the rate ARM is growing I suppose it can outnumber x86 computers in 5-10 years, and to be honest, x86 is clunked, as it has to be backwards compatible with everything made in the past 30 years[/QUOTE] ARM is currently one of the larger market share architectures thanks to embedded and mobile computing. x86/64 are only really used in personal and server computers. It won't outnumber x68/64 on the personal market until Intel and AMD start focusing on it. But it always has in other markets.
I've been working in a business IT environment long enough to know that this is basically the opposite of what system directors and admins want. Nobody managing a corporate IT environment wants a low energy and low capability server, if a web server is needed we don't go and look for a tree hugging machine we just virtualize it on the same machines everything else is running on. With the ultra convenient management capabilities of virtualization plus things like dynamic resource balancing why would anyone want to have to manage a separate low power ARM based machine when whatever low power application it might be running could easily be put on a server that needs to be high power anyway?
Eh, I can't see ARM being useful out of non-mobile applications.
[QUOTE=Protocol7;33080135]Eh, I can't see ARM being useful out of non-mobile applications.[/QUOTE] I could, but the only application I can think of right now (massively parallel problems) can be taken care of by GPUs.
I thought it was going to say ARMA 3 details for a second, then I realized it said HP.
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