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Correct me if I'm wrong, but ARM is much less power hungry, and produces less heat. Both options that at scale means potential cost savings on resale. It might
by bluejekyll 9y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ARM is much less power hungry, and produces less heat. Both options that at scale means potential cost savings on resale.
It might not be enough to offset the other costs, but it could be enough to offer a less costly service. At the end of the day though, half of what you get with AWS is a ton of library support in many languages for using AWS services.
- jjeaff 9y agoScaleways offers x86 options that are the same price with same number of cores.
- _up 9y agoI got an email saying that they recently doubled the arm cores.
- ferongr 9y ago>ARM is much less power hungry, and produces less heat This seems like a myth repeated without any proof to back it up.
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- fh973 9y agoHere you go: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10353/investigating-cavium-thunderx-48-arm-cores/19 http://www.anandtech.com/show/10353/investigating-cavium-thu... Performance and power are a complicated topic and Thunder-X2 might produce better numbers. 64-bit ARM for servers must be competitive with Xeons and POWER and can't compromise performance for power either.