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SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599. https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-community-board/ https://www.solid-run.com/

SoftIron.com. Cheapest option (OverDrive 1000) is $599. https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-community-board/ https://www.solid-run.com/marvell-armada-family/armada-8040-... - $369 https://www.phoenicselectronics.com https://www.phoenicselectronics.com will sell you a Gigabyte MT30-GS2 (Cavium ThunderX 32-core) 1U system for around $2k. If you want to provide your own ATX case - much less. ThunderX2 and Qualcomm Centriq (3rd gen arm server) systems have been recently announced (as in GA), but those will set you back quite a bit because they're not toys. But if you look at the 1st and 2nd gen systems, those are quite approachable.

StillBored 9y ago
It should be pointed out that the solid-run machine, while in theory a decent machine isn't going to run Redhat, or for that matter much beyond the image its shipping with. That _may_ change, but right now its not quite done cooking. That said, outside of the 10G Ethernet, its pretty much bested by just about every m-itx x86 board in that price range. Plus, if you happen to need the 10G, its still probably less expensive to pick up a G4400+motherboard+10GbaseT board (new dual port on ebay for about $100) and best that machine in most cases.
- andreiw 9y ago
  “besting” is very relative. Workloads in such footprints are usually power constrained and I am not aware of any x86 solutions involving a discrete NIC that can do 20Gbps at 35W. Yep, ACPI support is evolving, but it’s a matter of time. Folks have figured finally that if it isn’t compliant with SBBR and SBSA, then there will be plenty of competitors who will be, absolving you of the headache of dead-end BSPs.
  - StillBored 9y ago
    Maybe something like http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455-ITX/ http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455-ITX/ (random hit with a J3455 core, $74 at newegg at the moment) The base processor is rated at 10W for 4 cores, add ~8W for the 10GbaseT board (plus a bit) and its a competitive solution, particularly if your workload needs more RAM/etc. Feeling like you want a little more beef the Denverton's are hitting the market and many of them have the 10G integrated. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-H-TF.cfm https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-H... That one also has a BMC, which given my past experience tends to add a few watts too. Without testing them side by side its hard to know which draws more power in a given workload, particularly since the intel machines have become very dynamic over the last couple generations, its actually pretty hard to hit their TDP numbers in most cases (particularly without heavy FP workloads). Now its become more about what the motherboard manufacture has integrated. Its all fine that the core/etc draws 8 watts. The problem happens when the motherboard manufacture decides to glue an aspeed BMC and an old marvell SATA controller on the board. Between them at idle they draw 2x more power than the SOC does running at peak. Its pretty easy to move the numbers one way or the other with unrelated changes. EDIT: Discovered after posting that the PCIe on the asrock, is only x1 which keeps it from taking one of the x540T boards, but they have a couple variations including one for less money in m-atx which has a potentially better slot layout, and full size DIMM's.

StillBored 9y ago

It should be pointed out that the solid-run machine, while in theory a decent machine isn't going to run Redhat, or for that matter much beyond the image its shipping with. That _may_ change, but right now its not quite done cooking. That said, outside of the 10G Ethernet, its pretty much bested by just about every m-itx x86 board in that price range. Plus, if you happen to need the 10G, its still probably less expensive to pick up a G4400+motherboard+10GbaseT board (new dual port on ebay for about $100) and best that machine in most cases.

andreiw 9y ago
“besting” is very relative. Workloads in such footprints are usually power constrained and I am not aware of any x86 solutions involving a discrete NIC that can do 20Gbps at 35W. Yep, ACPI support is evolving, but it’s a matter of time. Folks have figured finally that if it isn’t compliant with SBBR and SBSA, then there will be plenty of competitors who will be, absolving you of the headache of dead-end BSPs.
- StillBored 9y ago
  Maybe something like http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455-ITX/ http://asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3455-ITX/ (random hit with a J3455 core, $74 at newegg at the moment) The base processor is rated at 10W for 4 cores, add ~8W for the 10GbaseT board (plus a bit) and its a competitive solution, particularly if your workload needs more RAM/etc. Feeling like you want a little more beef the Denverton's are hitting the market and many of them have the 10G integrated. https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-H-TF.cfm https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-H... That one also has a BMC, which given my past experience tends to add a few watts too. Without testing them side by side its hard to know which draws more power in a given workload, particularly since the intel machines have become very dynamic over the last couple generations, its actually pretty hard to hit their TDP numbers in most cases (particularly without heavy FP workloads). Now its become more about what the motherboard manufacture has integrated. Its all fine that the core/etc draws 8 watts. The problem happens when the motherboard manufacture decides to glue an aspeed BMC and an old marvell SATA controller on the board. Between them at idle they draw 2x more power than the SOC does running at peak. Its pretty easy to move the numbers one way or the other with unrelated changes. EDIT: Discovered after posting that the PCIe on the asrock, is only x1 which keeps it from taking one of the x540T boards, but they have a couple variations including one for less money in m-atx which has a potentially better slot layout, and full size DIMM's.