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Wasn't this Scaleway's big launch a decade ago? Funny how the world comes full circle eventually…

joyfylbanana 4y ago
These are heavy processors with 80 cores. Scaleway had entirely different proposal, more like RPi's stacked or something. I haven't seen anything like this before so interesting to see if anyone can comment on their performance/stability/etc. Check the specs here: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx
sschueller 4y ago
Yes, although I think they were shared in vms?
- tecleandor 4y ago
  Shared disk IIRC, not VMs. They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN. https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/02/scaleway-provides-dedicated-arm-servers-for-10-euros-per-month-0-02-euro-per-hour/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/02/scaleway-provides-de... Edit: Here are some pics for the ARM modules: https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/30/iliads-online-labs-offers-quad-core-armv7-dedicated-servers/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/30/iliads-online-labs-o...
  - naniwaduni 4y ago
    > They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN. This bit was pretty horrific and could seriously cramp your style trying to do things with those servers, too; you had to boot to a provided kernel so they could start up an nbd-client in early boot, which for extra fun you could accidentally kill while the machine was booted, which would probably force a power cycle.
    - tecleandor 4y ago
      Oh, I remember, that was a mess. IIRC there were only certain kernels available and you couldn't build modules (or at least not easily). I think I had problems to enable modules for filesystems or Docker or something like that.
tecleandor 4y ago
Yep! They launched the C1 servers in 2013 and in 2014 they were providing Docker support for them [1]. Of course, those were simple and slow chips and these are 80cores Ampere Altra, but of course, it's not the first dedicated ARM service in Europe. Note: IIRC Scaleway had their C1 servers booting from the network, not local disk, but still... 1: https://blog.scaleway.com/docker-on-c1/ https://blog.scaleway.com/docker-on-c1/
bravetraveler 4y ago
Indeed, it was a little buggy but I truly loved it. I spent way more than I probably should have on fun tiny-ARM clusters... when I was just barely no longer a teenager [and I'm much older now]

These are heavy processors with 80 cores. Scaleway had entirely different proposal, more like RPi's stacked or something. I haven't seen anything like this before so interesting to see if anyone can comment on their performance/stability/etc. Check the specs here: https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-rx

sschueller 4y ago

Yes, although I think they were shared in vms?

tecleandor 4y ago
Shared disk IIRC, not VMs. They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN. https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/02/scaleway-provides-dedicated-arm-servers-for-10-euros-per-month-0-02-euro-per-hour/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2015/04/02/scaleway-provides-de... Edit: Here are some pics for the ARM modules: https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/30/iliads-online-labs-offers-quad-core-armv7-dedicated-servers/ https://www.cnx-software.com/2014/12/30/iliads-online-labs-o...
- naniwaduni 4y ago
  > They had 1U servers full of boards connected to a backplane (or so it seems) [1], but the storage was shared and centralized in a SAN. This bit was pretty horrific and could seriously cramp your style trying to do things with those servers, too; you had to boot to a provided kernel so they could start up an nbd-client in early boot, which for extra fun you could accidentally kill while the machine was booted, which would probably force a power cycle.
  - tecleandor 4y ago
    Oh, I remember, that was a mess. IIRC there were only certain kernels available and you couldn't build modules (or at least not easily). I think I had problems to enable modules for filesystems or Docker or something like that.

tecleandor 4y ago

Yep! They launched the C1 servers in 2013 and in 2014 they were providing Docker support for them [1]. Of course, those were simple and slow chips and these are 80cores Ampere Altra, but of course, it's not the first dedicated ARM service in Europe. Note: IIRC Scaleway had their C1 servers booting from the network, not local disk, but still... 1: https://blog.scaleway.com/docker-on-c1/ https://blog.scaleway.com/docker-on-c1/

bravetraveler 4y ago

Indeed, it was a little buggy but I truly loved it. I spent way more than I probably should have on fun tiny-ARM clusters... when I was just barely no longer a teenager [and I'm much older now]