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amin...@gmail.com
Sep 19, 2019, 12:21:54 PM9/19/19
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Hello,
About ARM servers..
ARM servers are not for everyone. They could play a vital role in the Internet of tomorrow by providing cheap building blocks for infrastructure and handling niche server workloads. However, at the same time, I cannot escape the feeling that ARM servers tend to be overhyped.
Despite this, I don’t see them as a fad. I think they are here to stay, but vendors must carve out a few specific niches that can truly benefit from the new architecture.
In other words, we won’t see a lot of simple LAMP web hosting servers based on ARM, but we could see loads of them in more exotic niches (and some horribly boring ones). ARM processors could be a perfect fit for specific loads, especially those that can take advantage of a large number of small physical CPU cores, stuff that’s not CPU-bound. It might not sound like much, but this actually covers a lot of potential uses: data logging, large volumes of simple queries, certain types of databases, various storage services and so on.
I could go on, listing various use-cases, pros and cons of ARM servers, and potential problems, but at the end of the day, I suspect ARM server adoption will depend on good old cash. Technology aside, ARM servers will only make sense if the economic component checks out. In other words, they will have to offer a lot more bang for buck than x86 processors if they are to justify their existence.
Read more here:
https://www.toptal.com/back-end/arm-servers-armv8-for-datacentres
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
About ARM servers..
ARM servers are not for everyone. They could play a vital role in the Internet of tomorrow by providing cheap building blocks for infrastructure and handling niche server workloads. However, at the same time, I cannot escape the feeling that ARM servers tend to be overhyped.
Despite this, I don’t see them as a fad. I think they are here to stay, but vendors must carve out a few specific niches that can truly benefit from the new architecture.
In other words, we won’t see a lot of simple LAMP web hosting servers based on ARM, but we could see loads of them in more exotic niches (and some horribly boring ones). ARM processors could be a perfect fit for specific loads, especially those that can take advantage of a large number of small physical CPU cores, stuff that’s not CPU-bound. It might not sound like much, but this actually covers a lot of potential uses: data logging, large volumes of simple queries, certain types of databases, various storage services and so on.
I could go on, listing various use-cases, pros and cons of ARM servers, and potential problems, but at the end of the day, I suspect ARM server adoption will depend on good old cash. Technology aside, ARM servers will only make sense if the economic component checks out. In other words, they will have to offer a lot more bang for buck than x86 processors if they are to justify their existence.
Read more here:
https://www.toptal.com/back-end/arm-servers-armv8-for-datacentres
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.
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