![]() There are High Density designs, single processor and dual processor options, and 10 GBE as well as SFP options available. Some of the examples we’ve found include the Avantek R-series in both 1U and 2U sizes, and the Gigabyte Arm offering that closely match Avantek’s specs. These chips are sold in servers from several vendors, which come in various shapes and sizes. These servers all have great performance and are well supported thanks to standards compliance and UEFI.įirst up is the Marvell ThunderX, and newer ThunderX2. Here are some of the easiest ways to buy an Arm Server, although this list is not exhaustive. However, over the course of the past 2 to 3 years, more providers have entered the market and hardware is now readily available to end users and customers. Not long ago, the only way to gain access to Arm Servers was to have NDA’s with major OEM’s or having the right connections to get engineering-sample hardware. In the past, it was difficult to actually find Arm Server hardware available to individual end-users. As Copper and Redstone are not shipping commercially and do not have official prices, it is hard to tell how it all plays out.Being Arm enthusiasts and deeply embedded in the Arm Server ecosystem, one of the questions we get asked often is, “Where can I buy an Arm Server?” The issues then become the cost of each machine and the premium, if any, that HP is commanding for the Redstone density and the Calxeda interconnect. The HP Redstone machines can cram a lot more cores into the rack if you don't put storage on them, and still offer higher density if you put SSDs or 2.5-inch SATA disks into some of the SL6500 enclosure's trays. That works out to 2,688 cores in a rack if you fill it top to bottom with C5000s – or 2,496 cores if you leave 3U open for top-of-rack Ethernet switches. The latter is a supercomputing center that has the facilities to allow secure remote access from all over the world, and Dell's plan is to let developers sign up for some timeslices on the Copper servers to give their code a whirl before they commit to buying the custom iron from DCS.Ī single C5000 chassis can hold 48 ARM processors, for a total of 192 cores. Cumings says that Dell expects for customers to use normal top-of-rack switches to link multiple Copper sled enclosures together, but they don't have to.Ĭumings says that the Copper sleds have been shipping to selected seed customers for some time and that Dell will be standing up racks of the ARM-based servers in its solution centers as well as in the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas. The exact feeds and speeds of this on-board, distributed Ethernet switch are not being divulged at this time, but it was clearly designed to compete against the Energ圜ore Fabric Switch embedded on each Calxeda ARM server chip. This network can also span multiple enclosures if customers want to do it. Off to the right of the four processors is another processor and some other gadgetry that implements a Layer 2 Ethernet switch across all of the four nodes on the Copper sled as well as the dozen Copper sleds that can be slid into the C5000 chassis. The sled has room for four 3.5-inch SATA drives, one for each ARM server node. ![]() This board is designed by Dell it is not clear where it is manufactured. The Copper sled server, which slides into the PowerEdge C5000 chassis from the DCS unit, puts four of these Armada XP 78460 processors on a system board with four memory slots each processor links to one slot and it has 8GB of memory in it. Dell's "Copper" ARM server sled (click to enlarge)
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