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SolidRun 1U 2 node Arm Server
- mobilio 6y agoI'm curious what is price for that server? Or just for one node.
- paxswill 6y agoYou can get the board for $750, but it says 8 weeks shipping: https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/ https://shop.solid-run.com/product/SRLX216S00D00GE064H08CH/ It's mini-ITX, so there's a pile of cases you can use for it if you want.
- flatiron 6y agolooks to me like bang/buck here is still going to be amd. you could put together a very nice amd board for $750
- trevorishere 6y agoAgreed. Unless you're concerned with power consumption, I'm not sure where this server fits, especially with an A72 core which is a few years old. I'd love to have one of these to replace ODroid N2+ just for a rack mount solution, but not at that price.
- MartijnBraam 6y agoIt's very interesting for certain usecases. Ordered one of those boards to run as a buildserver for postmarketOS.
- walrus01 6y agoAs a design to put into a 1U case that location for the CPU on the daughterboard above the motherboard is really problematic, because it leaves almost no headroom for a proper passive heatsink. In a well engineered 1U server setup you want the motherboard to be as low to the bottom of the chassis as possible, then the CPU in its socket, and a big passive heatsink (either aluminum or skived copper) occupying almost all the rest of the vertical room inside the case. The server should be like a front to back wind tunnel where the 40mm fans are moving air through the CPU heatsink(s) without the need for separate fans on top of the CPUs themselves. The fan unit on top of that is really problematic from a above-the-fan vertical clearance and airflow perspective. Additionally the SODIMM slots are blocking a typical airflow path from the front edge of the motherboard towards the rear. More normally a server motherboard for 1U would not use laptop size RAM, but would use normal size DIMMs oriented in such a way that they're parallel to the path of airflow. (disclosure: I used to work for a server manufacturer and was responsible for procuring components from Taiwanese vendors, and designing new generations of 1U single and dual socket boxes to custom specs)
- snuxoll 6y agoIt is advertised as a workstation board, so the lack of design considerations for a rack mounted chassis isn’t surprising. That said, with the power draw of the entire board a 2U chassis with a standard circular fan on the CPU and modest chassis airflow is likely to be sufficient.
- cameron_b 6y agoIts clear that the COM express carrier wasn't initially designed for this application. SolidRun has simply gotten enough requests for help solving rack density questions that they put together an answer.
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoIt's a pity that the whole point seems to be hitting the middle price point but there's no actual pricing info available. Still, once they get closer to shipping this could be interesting to watch. Anything to get better competition in "normal" server space:)
- usr1106 6y agoThe ARM "server" space for the hobbyist willing to spend < 10 EUR/USD a month is a bit of a sad story. Scaleway had their nicely priced C1 instances. Well, they still have and they run pretty solidly in my (limited) experience. But they have not updated the kernel for ages. It seems pretty clear that they will shut them down sooner or later without any successor. Is there any other comparable offering out there? (I intentionally mix owning and renting a server. Aren't we in the age of the cloud...)
- yjftsjthsd-h 6y agoHonestly, is there anything at 10 USD/EUR per month? I mean, yes, I'd rather pay the same as I do for cheap Digital Ocean or whatever, but outside of AWS options are thin even if you are willing to pay a little bit more.
- kingosticks 6y agoTechnically you could get a Raspberry Pi at https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi https://www.mythic-beasts.com/order/rpi for £7.25 per month but I'm not sure if this is what you had in mind. It's not exactly a server and it's not going to win any prizes for performance.
- selfhoster11 6y agoFor the type of workloads a Pi is capable of, and given the low capex of setting one up, it only makes sense to pay for this if you have extremely rubbish broadband at home.
- emelinad09 6y agoEhrlicher und sehr interessanter Blog über Online-Einnahmen https://mr.bet/at/game/view/demo/mystic-mirror https://mr.bet/at/game/view/demo/mystic-mirror .
- ojn 6y agoUnfortunately a low-signal article and announcement: No release date, no pricing, nothing in-depth.
- nine_k 6y agoAt least, the form factor, and the interfaces: 4x 10G SFP+, 4x SATA, not bad. Looks like a compact but solid board for CPU-light loads, likely comparable to boards based on Intel's C37xx. What made me sad is that the memory is not ECC apparently :( No estimated price and no performance figures still.
- aseipp 6y agoIt's just a bundle of two of their Honeycomb LX2, which has a 16-core LX2160A from NXP, and have been available for a while. The performance numbers put out previously put it somewhere in the performance range of a Xeon Silver class processor, but with less power draw (~35W TDP?) It'll almost certainly be vastly better than any comparable Atom in performance, but you might lose some other stuff.
- cameron_b 6y agoECC does seem to be supported, per SolidRun
- walrus01 6y agoNo info on cost, and no info on operating system support. Anything that's COM Express is produced in very small quantities and is very expensive. I'll be shocked if it isn't 3 to 4x the cost of a single socket 8-core Ryzen that runs circles around it in performance.
- snuxoll 6y ago$750, right on SolidRun’s website. Given the specs it’s a fair price, although a 8-core Ryzen CPU would indeed run circles around 16 Cortex A72 cores.
- rjsw 6y agoThe $750 is for one board, the case in the article holds two of them.
- dragontamer 6y ago1U rack-form cases are pretty expensive actually. That's really the main issue with racks: you spend a substantial amount of money on just the form factor. 1U is very small: so the fans are moving fast and are very loud. Its a form-factor specifically designed for server rooms: where you put ear-plugs in before entering the room. The money spent on the racks / physical infrastructure is small compared to the ongoing costs of actually powering or cooling the room
- snuxoll 6y agoThe $750 is just for the board. Four SFP+ ports, some onboard SATA ports, an open PCIe 3.0 x8 port and a 16-core Cortex A72 CPU on a mini-itx compatible board is still a decent price given it's not a mass-market product. Hell, development kits for many ARM SOCs cost more than that for way less. That said, you are absolutely correct that rackmount equipment is expensive by it's form-factor - but given this is a mini-itx board clearly not designed for use in a rackmounted chassis (given clearance for CPU cooling and orientation of the memory modules) it's not a factor here.
- walrus01 6y ago
- kev009 6y agoThere's no mention of OOB support. You could of course hook up something to the reset pins and serial port, but this places it categorically behind low end x86-64 servers.
- cameron_b 6y agoThere is Baseband Management on the Honeycomb. It isn't an Aspeed in features, but it isn't a Aspeed in power consumption either. I intend to cover that in depth when I get my hands on it.
- linux4kix 6y agoThe HoneyComb boards are fitted with a uBMC. This is a stateless MC that can be connected to a BMC concentrator gateway.
- rmykhajliw 6y agoWHAT! It's $750 bard based on upgraded raspberry pi ? For the whole controllers I don't want to pay more than $200& Otherwise it's better to purchase a mac mini and use in as rack mount.
- asguy 6y agoYou're talking apples and oranges. The LX2160A is an "edge computing part", with a bunch of RAM and I/O bandwidth, and enough cores to do something with it. Its not a workstation or a jellybean controller part.