I'd love to see some benchmarks on a perf/watt or just plain performance comparison to other x86 alternatives. I wonder if the 10Gbps interconnect will limit it in any way
10Gbps is about 1,250 MBps. You may get 80-90% utilization of the bandwidth at best. It would depend on what you're doing on the server.
Truth is I would believe this to be a benefit for web hosting. I'm curious as to how much the power supply is rated for on the server; it'll indicate how much the max draw is.
I don't think this has a chance to be anything more than a niche business model without Windows server support. Someone like Facebook or Google would have the intellectual support and workload to benefit from this.
I'm thinking that web hosting companies could get some use out of this. Lots of low-power cores and support for the standard LAMP stack that a lot of them use. I'm assuming that power/performance scales nicely with the workload.
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mevans336 - Monday, July 9, 2012 - link
We would be interested in this if it scales and eventually offers support for JBoss and Nginx.I'd love to replace my Sandy Bridge Xeons with more cores at a 10:1 power ratio.
Soulkeeper - Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - link
I'd love to see some benchmarks on a perf/watt or just plain performance comparison to other x86 alternatives.I wonder if the 10Gbps interconnect will limit it in any way
eanazag - Tuesday, July 10, 2012 - link
10Gbps is about 1,250 MBps. You may get 80-90% utilization of the bandwidth at best. It would depend on what you're doing on the server.Truth is I would believe this to be a benefit for web hosting. I'm curious as to how much the power supply is rated for on the server; it'll indicate how much the max draw is.
I don't think this has a chance to be anything more than a niche business model without Windows server support. Someone like Facebook or Google would have the intellectual support and workload to benefit from this.
Veerappan - Thursday, July 12, 2012 - link
I'm thinking that web hosting companies could get some use out of this. Lots of low-power cores and support for the standard LAMP stack that a lot of them use. I'm assuming that power/performance scales nicely with the workload.