The future of microservers on MIPS processors
I was very surprised when I did not find the discussion of two interrelated news on Habré:
1. "AMD has completed the absorption of SeaMicro" ;
2. "AMD wants to acquire MIPS, but will it be ahead of Google?" .
Just imagine that if AMD really buys the company MIPS Technologies, and commissioned by AMD, engineer MIPS Technologies will redesign the 64-bit processor of the MIPS R1x000 series according to modern technological standards at 22 nm using all intelligent developments from SeaMicro . As a result, you can get a wonderful energy-efficient microprocessor for microservers that SeaMicro will immediately begin to produce.
After all, today there is a lot of talk about the fact that in the future up to 20% of the server market can take energy-efficient microservers, and ARM makes great efforts to occupy this market, and corporations such as HP and Dell are already testing microservers on energy-efficient ARM processors today. - see: "Testing of HP servers on ARM chips will begin in the second quarter . "
But the problem of processors with ARM-architecture is that although they are energy efficient, they have never been used in servers before, and are not yet 64-bit, and do not have server software.
Modern processors with MIPS architecture are also energy efficient, but unlike ARM processors, decades ago servers of such famous companies as Silicon Graphics , NEC , etc. were used in servers, and there is a huge amount of server software for processors with MIPS architecture. In the early 2000s, Silicon Graphics produced powerful supercomputers on 64-bit MIPS processors.
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And if AMD manages to buy the MIPS Technologies company and revive the MIPS architecture using its full potential for the production of microservers, then in a few years we can see a cheap server rack filled with several thousand 1.5 GHz energy efficient MIPS processors running on LAMP software and comparable in power with supercomputers mid 2000s :)
And over time, such processors may even become the technological standard for microservers, if AMD starts actively promoting them to the market!
What do you think of it?
1. "AMD has completed the absorption of SeaMicro" ;
2. "AMD wants to acquire MIPS, but will it be ahead of Google?" .
Just imagine that if AMD really buys the company MIPS Technologies, and commissioned by AMD, engineer MIPS Technologies will redesign the 64-bit processor of the MIPS R1x000 series according to modern technological standards at 22 nm using all intelligent developments from SeaMicro . As a result, you can get a wonderful energy-efficient microprocessor for microservers that SeaMicro will immediately begin to produce.
After all, today there is a lot of talk about the fact that in the future up to 20% of the server market can take energy-efficient microservers, and ARM makes great efforts to occupy this market, and corporations such as HP and Dell are already testing microservers on energy-efficient ARM processors today. - see: "Testing of HP servers on ARM chips will begin in the second quarter . "
But the problem of processors with ARM-architecture is that although they are energy efficient, they have never been used in servers before, and are not yet 64-bit, and do not have server software.
Modern processors with MIPS architecture are also energy efficient, but unlike ARM processors, decades ago servers of such famous companies as Silicon Graphics , NEC , etc. were used in servers, and there is a huge amount of server software for processors with MIPS architecture. In the early 2000s, Silicon Graphics produced powerful supercomputers on 64-bit MIPS processors.
')
And if AMD manages to buy the MIPS Technologies company and revive the MIPS architecture using its full potential for the production of microservers, then in a few years we can see a cheap server rack filled with several thousand 1.5 GHz energy efficient MIPS processors running on LAMP software and comparable in power with supercomputers mid 2000s :)
And over time, such processors may even become the technological standard for microservers, if AMD starts actively promoting them to the market!
What do you think of it?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/142827/
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