On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > I think you can buy Cavium ThunderX systems if you get in touch with the > distributor in Canada. We have some of their systems in the US for arm64 > build farm purposes.
I think now you can, but even a year or two ago, good luck. I think the most powerful I managed to get my hands on was an 8 core 64bit A53 reference board from Freescale (NXP? Qualcomm?) but that was a pain to try to work with because the network ports were totally weird and non standard and kernel support was not integrated yet. > But yes, the long promised ARM in the datacentre thing seems to remain > just that, a promise with no major channel resellers or anyone offering > much in terms of product. > > HP tried high density ARM servers with its Moonshot blades, but it seems > like that effort died off in 2014 as soon as it started, and the whole > HP/HPE thing the next year probably didn't help. Also a box full of independant small 32 bit arm servers was not what people wanted. They wanted large single image multicore 64 bit arm servers. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk