ARM is an interesting platform that offers better performance/power ratio than x64 processors. I don't think ARM will eat into HPC shares of AMD/Intel/IBM POWER or enter the TOP500 list any time soon. However, I am expecting to see ARM in high throughput environments in the near future. Thus, we are announcing that the next version of Grid Engine released by the Grid Scheduler open project will support ARM Linux.
We tested SGE on an ARMv7 box. As the SGE code is 64-bit clean, when 64-bit ARM processors come out in the next year or two, our version should/will compile & work out of the box. Rayson ================================= Grid Engine / Open Grid Scheduler http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 10:10 PM, Bill Broadley <[email protected]> wrote: > The best summary I've found: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_servers/ > > Specifications at for the ECX-1000: > http://www.calxeda.com/products/energycore/ecx1000/techspecs > > And EnergyCard: > http://www.calxeda.com/products/energycards/techspecs > > The only hint on price that I found was from theregister.co.uk: > The sales pitch for the Redstone systems, says Santeler, is that a > half rack of Redstone machines and their external switches > implementing 1,600 server nodes has 41 cables, burns 9.9 kilowatts, > and costs $1.2m. > > So it sounds like for 6 watts and $750 you get a quad core 1.4 GHz arm > 10G connected node. > > Comments? > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Rayson ================================================== Open Grid Scheduler - The Official Open Source Grid Engine http://gridscheduler.sourceforge.net/ _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
