From owner-freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Fri Apr 7 17:45:33 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97479D32310 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2017 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (unknown [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 80AF58E for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2017 17:45:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [10.44.135.229] (nat-192-187-90-114.nat.tribpub.com [192.187.90.114]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 9402075f TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:45:32 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: OT: 96-core 1U ARM server To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org References: From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <6c554671-cefc-59bc-97b8-5b653e9e3e39@nomadlogic.org> Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:45:31 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Porting FreeBSD to ARM processors." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 17:45:33 -0000 On 04/07/2017 10:35, Jim Thompson wrote: > ThunderX, best application right now is "scale out" web loads. > They start at a single socket for under $3,000 > http://www.nextwarehouse.com/item/?2465022_g10e > > You could try to buy it directly from Gigabyte: > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/Rack-Server/ARM-SoC > > If you can't get inside, lmk, and I'll put you in touch with our mfg rep > for them. I was pretty impressed with my R&D thunderx system. def agree on the worklaod type - using it for compilation or other cpu intensive tasks it was a bit slower than comparable intel CPU's (Xeon E5-xxxx class). but we had a heavily multi-threaded, network intensive workload that it did a pretty good job handling. the embedded 40Gig NIC on our R&D unit was pretty impressive as well, as was power draw in our lab. sadly i left that gig before i had a chance to advocate to get it into prod - kinda wish i still worked at that job for all the fun hardware i had access to :) -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA