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Servers next? Servers first! AWS released a second generation of the Graviton before Apple announced the Mac transition. Also great stuff is coming from Ampere

Servers next? Servers first! AWS released a second generation of the Graviton before Apple announced the Mac transition. Also great stuff is coming from Ampere and Marvell (ex-Cavium).

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
I've been running one of my production applications[1] on Marvell (ex-Cavium) based ARM server on Scaleway which has had it for several years now; unfortunately they decided to pull the plug off their entire ARM line up suddenly citing stability issues which not many have faced[2]. [1]https://needgap.com https://needgap.com [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925
- the-dude 6y ago
  nitpick : you probably mean 'citing'.
  - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    Thank you, corrected.
- ZinniaZirconium 6y ago
  I wish Scaleway hadn't discontinued ARM because I was thinking of migrating a project over to an ARM server just for fun but when I looked ARM was gone.
  - floatboth 6y ago
    It might be coming back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/ https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat... > we’re evaluating Ampere Altra for the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020. — Scaleway
- floatboth 6y ago
  Back in the pre-Graviton days I managed to boot FreeBSD on their ThunderX VM offering, wrote a guide on the forums, even received an email about that from staff… and a few months later they broke local boot completely and then, yeah, closed the whole offering for some reason. What a disaster. As much as I dislike the whole Bezos Empire thing, I'm glad AWS picked up the ARM VM world and pushed it to great heights.
  - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    I think main cause of issue with Scaleway's ARM offering could be their own custom Bios and not the actual hardware. I hope they had come clean with the actual technical details of the stability issues instead of just mentioning it in one line on their migration guide to x86 from ARM servers.
    - floatboth 6y ago
      huh, they might be bringing ARM back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/ https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat...

Servers next? Servers first! AWS released a second generation of the Graviton before Apple announced the Mac transition. Also great stuff is coming from Ampere and Marvell (ex-Cavium).

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago

I've been running one of my production applications[1] on Marvell (ex-Cavium) based ARM server on Scaleway which has had it for several years now; unfortunately they decided to pull the plug off their entire ARM line up suddenly citing stability issues which not many have faced[2]. [1]https://needgap.com https://needgap.com [2]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22865925

the-dude 6y ago
nitpick : you probably mean 'citing'.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  Thank you, corrected.
ZinniaZirconium 6y ago
I wish Scaleway hadn't discontinued ARM because I was thinking of migrating a project over to an ARM server just for fun but when I looked ARM was gone.
- floatboth 6y ago
  It might be coming back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/ https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat... > we’re evaluating Ampere Altra for the new breeze of our Arm64 cloud instances in late 2020. — Scaleway
floatboth 6y ago
Back in the pre-Graviton days I managed to boot FreeBSD on their ThunderX VM offering, wrote a guide on the forums, even received an email about that from staff… and a few months later they broke local boot completely and then, yeah, closed the whole offering for some reason. What a disaster. As much as I dislike the whole Bezos Empire thing, I'm glad AWS picked up the ARM VM world and pushed it to great heights.
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  I think main cause of issue with Scaleway's ARM offering could be their own custom Bios and not the actual hardware. I hope they had come clean with the actual technical details of the stability issues instead of just mentioning it in one line on their migration guide to x86 from ARM servers.
  - floatboth 6y ago
    huh, they might be bringing ARM back: https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-native-processors-expands-to-128-cores-with-altra-max/ https://amperecomputing.com/ampere-altra-family-of-cloud-nat...