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I do see a potential problem here. In the pictures, they show a bunch of Atom CPUs soldered directly to the board. That means dire things for service. Now, if a
by CountHackulus 16y ago
I do see a potential problem here. In the pictures, they show a bunch of Atom CPUs soldered directly to the board. That means dire things for service. Now, if a single CPU has a a flaw, you need to replace an entire board of CPUs.
Compare this to a standard blade setup, where you could just swap out CPUs, or even an IBM System Z where you could hotswap the CPU, and service doesn't look so great.
- gfodor 16y agoYou're certainly jumping to a lot of conclusions here, perhaps the boards of CPUs are quite cheap?
- hga 16y agoOr just ignore it if it doesn't take out the whole card. Atoms only come this way (solder mount), right? You can hotswap each 8 CPU board.
- wmf 16y agoTo be fair, the unit of hotswap in System z is a book that contains ~32 cores; that's not so different from SeaMicro.
- pjscott 16y agoThe load-balancer monitors the health of the processors and can route around broken ones. Some amount of degradation is okay.