On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 5:08 AM, Neil Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 11:29 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> size, power budget. in about 5-8 years it won't be an issue. >> EOMA200 is better suited to clustering. bigger PCB size and a much >> higher power budget. > > I'm not really concerned about size. What do you mean by power budget?
5W per card in the current standard, with an "option" to increase that to 10W *if the housing supports it*. that means having sufficient thermal cooling/ > What's to stop me or anyone else from buying, say, 8x EOMA68's and > networking them? nothing. > (gigabit or otherwise)? no ethernet. USB3 *if the Card supports it*... which the A20 doesn't. > Assuming that a backplane is the > only thing in the way, that could happen pretty easily. The only other > thing missing at that point would be availability of the 1st gen cards, but > that should get better in time, I'd think. Cost wise it's still less than > an Intel NUC, if you're not counting the cost of the backplane. you can't get a 1000 pin 15W *processor* nor can you get 128-bit-wide DDR3 memory bus bandwidth into an EOMA68 case. ok the latter you might be able to do if you used 4x 32-bit-wide LPDDR3 RAM ICs but the entire 5W power budget would be blown on running the RAM even at only around 1066mhz. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
