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Has the ThunderX family shipped in "mere mortal" hardware, or is it all supercomputers and custom FANG servers and the like? I seem to remember that when Thunde
by 0xcde4c3db 7y ago
Has the ThunderX family shipped in "mere mortal" hardware, or is it all supercomputers and custom FANG servers and the like? I seem to remember that when ThunderX first launched, there was some noise about "ARM servers" being a market that exists, and the company I worked for at the time was looking into using it for a new product but gave up on it for some reason.
- rrss 7y agohttps://buy.hpe.com/us/en/servers/apollo-systems/apollo-70-system/apollo-70-system/hpe-apollo-70-system/p/1010742472 https://buy.hpe.com/us/en/servers/apollo-systems/apollo-70-s... https://www.gigabyte.com/us/ARM-Server/Marvell-ThunderX2 https://www.gigabyte.com/us/ARM-Server/Marvell-ThunderX2
- SloopJon 7y agoI think I've used one of these Gigabyte rack servers: https://www.gigabyte.com/us/ARM-Server https://www.gigabyte.com/us/ARM-Server I'm not sure offhand what the pricing is, but my guess would be less than $10,000, depending on the configuration.
- sudosysgen 7y agoSo much more than an equivalent x86 box.
- rbanffy 7y agoThere aren't many 384-thread x86 boxes around, certainly none below US$ 10K
- sudosysgen 7y ago384 threads at which SMT level again? What's the clock speed, and what's the IPC compared to say a 64 core 128 thread Threadripper? You'll find it won't compare favourably for 99.9% of workloads.