looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Hello everyone, I am looking to purchase ARM servers, preferably with the new Cortex-A15 processors. This is to run general purpose server workloads, so I would like to buy full integrated servers rather than build them up myself from embedded boards. Any ideas who sells such beasties in Israel?

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, Why don't you take Atom processors? more horse power (IIRC), and there are solutions (from Intel) which can give you a big box with few dozens boards and hard disks. Hetz 2010/11/2 Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@il.ibm.com Hello everyone, I am looking to purchase ARM servers, preferably with the

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Muli, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:14:43AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I am looking to purchase ARM servers, preferably with the new Cortex-A15 processors. The Cortex-A15 core has just been announced by ARM. Don't expect to see actual Cortex-A15 based chips in less than a year. This is

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 2, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Why don't you take Atom processors? more horse power (IIRC), and there are solutions (from Intel) which can give you a big box with few dozens boards and hard disks. Didn't we have this discussion a couple of weeks ago? Geoff. --

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Baruch Siach
Hi Muli, On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:30:12PM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:11:34PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote: Are you interested in processing horsepower, or storage? Mostly processing, although storage is also interesting. Then you should go for the Coretx-A8/A9

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread geoffrey mendelson
On Nov 2, 2010, at 8:17 PM, Baruch Siach wrote: Then you should go for the Coretx-A8/A9 based chips. You can have a Beagleboard (TI OMAP based) for about $150. I don't know who sells them in Israel though. For that price (500 NIS) you can get a dual core ATOM (2x aprox 1.6gHz cores),

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Moish
Did anyone on this list actually installed and maintained mainstream distribution on Sheevaplug ? ( or alike ) I'm referring to a VERY light implementation of firewall/postfix/apache. ( all on the same machine will surprise me though ) If so, please share brand,model and configuration. I'm not

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:55:12PM +0200, Moish wrote: Did anyone on this list actually installed and maintained mainstream distribution on Sheevaplug ? ( or alike ) I'm referring to a VERY light implementation of firewall/postfix/apache. ( all on the same machine will surprise me though )

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:11:34PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:14:43AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote: I am looking to purchase ARM servers, preferably with the new Cortex-A15 processors. The Cortex-A15 core has just been announced by ARM. Don't expect to see

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:03:39PM +0200, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Hi, Why don't you take Atom processors? Because I want to run experiments on the ARM architecture. Cheers, Muli ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Etzion Bar-Noy
Get yourself an old openmoko device. They are ARM based, well documented, with several simple options of Linux distros for them. Very weak, of course, but for ARM games (playing with your arm :-) ) they should be just fine. Ez On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Muli Ben-Yehuda m...@il.ibm.com

Re: looking to buy ARM servers

2010-11-02 Thread Udi Finkelstein
As written earlier, the cheapest way to get an ARM is to buy a Seagate FreeAgent Dockstar at 300 NIS. This is basically a slightly trimmed down SheevaPlug. 128MB RAM 128MB NAND Flash 3 USB ports Fanless debian OpenWRT available. Please see: