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Big question is that as a developer how I get access to one of these.
by dman 9y ago
Big question is that as a developer how I get access to one of these.
- jabl 9y agoIndeed. Heck, even if we forget about SVE, where can I get my hands on an armv8 box that I could use as a desktop so I could dogfood while developing, without paying an arm and a leg for some server hardware?
- timthorn 9y agoAvantek do one: https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thunderx-arm-desktop.html https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thund...
- jcbeard 9y agoIf you're interested in seeing more about what people are currently doing with ARM, check out the slides at http://www.goingarm.com/#2017schedule http://www.goingarm.com/#2017schedule For buying a machine, it depends on what you want. Desktops are coming out now, for example: https://softiron.com/products/overdrive-1000/ https://softiron.com/products/overdrive-1000/ Server/HPC, there are quite a few coming online. The Cavium presenter @goingarm listed (https://www.packet.net https://www.packet.net) on their slides, might be decent for getting a cloud instance to try out. There are many others. A good place to start finding them is: http://arm-hpc.gitlab.io http://arm-hpc.gitlab.io. A nice thing about ARM is that you get lots of different micro-arch under a single ISA. Once the ball gets rolling there will be many processor choices to choose from, which I think is a great thing (however, in full disclosure I'm one of the authors, and I work for ARM Research for our HPC program..although all statements above are my own opinion and not those of ARM).
- dman 9y agoThanks for pointing softiron out. This might be the only shipping amd arm solution that I have seen.
- jcbeard 9y agoAt ISC17 they had these at the Gigabyte booth....with multi-GPU configs (see GPGPU on top). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4tfh1u3NMxnTThSdEswR2o1SXc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4tfh1u3NMxnTThSdEswR2o1SXc...