"but the fact is it doesn't cost more money to switch to ARM, and you jettison a bunch of legacy x86 crap that nobody uses but take millions of transistors which need to be powered."
ARM is not compatible with a lot of our software, and besides if we really wanted power efficiency we could instead buy Intel's 14nm chips. Virtualization also helps. New servers always cost a lot, and it's not trivial to switch over hundreds of boxes. That's because you're not going to make ARM CPUs work as drop-in replacements. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 7:55 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > When this came up last time, it turned out that there was some kind of > a deal in place, and certainly many if not most published pictures of > the Wikimedia data center feature rows of shiny Dell logos. But Dell > does support Microsoft and the NSA, obviously, and also supports some > very creative accounting methods to avoid paying taxes with tax > havens. Dell's corporate structure adventures are not the sort of > corporate behavior concordant with a mission to empower anyone other > than Dell stockholders. > > If you don't like Cubietrucks, then how about RADXA? At least with > http://dl.radxa.com/rock/docs/hw/RADXA_ROCK_schematic_20130903.pdf > you know exactly what you're getting and it doesn't cost a huge power > bill. We still failover when machines go out of service, and sure the > caches would have different RAM configurations, but the fact is it > doesn't cost more money to switch to ARM, and you jettison a bunch of > legacy x86 crap that nobody uses but take millions of transistors > which need to be powered. Why ask our donors to keep all those useless > transistors warm? > > And as much as I personally appreciate Wikimedia staff, I am inclined > to agree with the sentiment that perhaps we should hire more staff > until we get some who believe that it wouldn't cost $100,000 to > transition to less expensive hardware. And maybe some people who know > how to order chassis? > > Best regards, > James > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
