On Tue, Sep 04, 2018 at 02:03:18PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote: >On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 10:59:38AM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: >> One of the most promising seems to be the SynQuacer: >> >> https://www.96boards.org/product/developerbox/ >> >> With a 24-core processor, SATA, PCIe, USB 3.0, micro-atx form-factor, >> and 4 ram slots (up to 64GB, in theory, but may be picky about >> ram). > >It has 24 cores of Cortex-A53 CPUs, which are intended for "mobile" >applications (smartphones and similar). IMO, it would be great to get >more powerful processors. But, if this thing is working for Debian and >can handle sustained load on all 24 cores, that's already better than >some of the armhf boards we have. According to that Debian mailing list >post, this can do both 32 and 64-bit.
Correct. >Steve, do you find the SynQuacer can handle being fully loaded for >extended periods of time? I've been doing rebuilds of the entire Debian archive for the last few weeks on a Synquacer and some other machines. It's not shown any issues at all during that period. A53 cores are not all that fast for single-threaded code, but the CPU is claimed to only hit 5W flat out on all 24 cores. It's got a large passive heat sink and a small fan in the PSU. No issues seen. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. st...@einval.com Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles. --- Anthony DeBoer