Looking very forward to these. I was a KickStarter backer and should have my two boards arriving shortly. I will keep you guys posted. Would eventually like to port NumberFields over to ARM to run it on these.
Huh. Interesting. My one question would be, how does the GFLOPs per Watt compare to X86 CPUs? That's what it kind of boils down to these days, is how much the utility bill is each month for a given number crunching ability.
For us, that's true. However, many data centers charge per sq. ft. or per unit of rack space. That's why blade servers were/are such a big hit for those who didn't need a lot of disk storage. I'm sure someone will come up with a pluggable version of these if they can compete with the blades' power and cost less.
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Look into HP's Moonshot that they announced recently. Very similar approach to taking blades and continuing to head towards this Credit card sized server...
Originally Posted by HP