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Running a webserver on ARM Processors? Not yet, but there is some potential
- evgen 17y agoIt is not quite the same workload or flexibility that the author was looking for, but I was running a web server on my Newton (162 MHz strongarm 110, 4M of RAM) more than a decade ago. Imaging a beowulf cluster of... oops, wrong forum for that particular meme...
- jwilliams 17y agoI think this area has a lot of potential. I'm a fan of Atom-based solutions -- the author is concerned about ECC, which is less of an issue for me. Part of the problem with Atom solutions to date was the power-hungry chipset that it used to ship with. The current generation chipsets still consume more power than the CPU, but they are a lot better (~10W against ~22W for the 945GSE vs the 945G). Particularly for solutions that rely on redundant nodes, it's a great solution. In the right conditions you could even move to ambient-air cooling and save a huge amount of energy.
- davidw 17y agoThe Arm-based netwinder I had some 10 years ago worked decently as a small web server. His point is really another one, though; about whether it would make sense for big server farms.
- DarkShikari 17y agoIf a 4-core, cache coherent version was available with a reasonable memory controller Multi-core Cortex A9s are hitting silicon as we speak, so this is actually not far off at all.
- wlievens 17y agoIf I were more than a mere Software Engineer I could actually go and impress people by stating that I work for ARM.