Dell began testing prototype ARM servers
Rumors about the arrival of servers based on ARM processors went long and hard, but they didn’t hurry to show real devices to the masses. From what was found on the subject - HP Project Moonshot , but the project page is not available, it is not entirely clear in what condition it is in now.
Meanwhile, Dell decided to play around with “energy efficient” servers by introducing the Dell “Copper” ARM server project.
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Platform Characteristics:
Dell announced the creation of an ecosystem for ARM servers, including:
The declared power consumption of a fully equipped 3U is 750 watts.
UPD: comrade cepera_ang kindly shared the data on the power consumption of the server HP DL380 G6 2U based on Intel Xeon (stock BP 460W):
IMHO, a decisive victory over the already existing solutions is somehow not very noticeable (perhaps even the price will be more attractive), such servers are unlikely to become a mass universal platform. As some kind of narrowly-focused solutions, examples of which for some reason have not been in a hurry to come to my head, it can and will go.
via Dell and Compulenta
PS: I apologize in advance for placing in a not quite suitable hub
Meanwhile, Dell decided to play around with “energy efficient” servers by introducing the Dell “Copper” ARM server project.
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Platform Characteristics:
| Form factor | 3U chassis, 48 independent servers |
| Architecture | 4-core 1.6 GHz Marvell Armada XP SOC , 4 servers per module, 12 modules in 3U chassis |
| RAM | 1 DIMM slot (DDR3 UDIMM VLP, 1333MHz) per SOC, up to 8GB per slot |
| Drives | 1 x 2.5 "bay (SATA) per SOC |
| Network | 1GB Marvell Ethernet to a server connected to the internal L2 switch Marvell 98DX4122 |
Dell announced the creation of an ecosystem for ARM servers, including:
- Sending test hardware platforms to selected partners and customers. In the free sale of servers yet.
- Dell Copper Developer Cloud Access
- Adding Dell “Copper” support to OSS frameworks to create Crowbar and Apache Hadoop cloud infrastructure
The declared power consumption of a fully equipped 3U is 750 watts.
UPD: comrade cepera_ang kindly shared the data on the power consumption of the server HP DL380 G6 2U based on Intel Xeon (stock BP 460W):
Normal servers have power supply units with a margin. The real server, HP DL380 G6 2U 2 processors, 38GB of memory, 8 hard drives under average load of about 30% consumes about 180-190W according to monitoring data.
IMHO, a decisive victory over the already existing solutions is somehow not very noticeable (perhaps even the price will be more attractive), such servers are unlikely to become a mass universal platform. As some kind of narrowly-focused solutions, examples of which for some reason have not been in a hurry to come to my head, it can and will go.
via Dell and Compulenta
PS: I apologize in advance for placing in a not quite suitable hub
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/144896/
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