Calxeda ARM Powered Server

Calxeda provides an update on their ARM Powered Server SoC, it's a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor optimized for using in Servers.

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[John Villar]

Wonder what GPU's got those SOCs, would be interesting to know how much FLOPS can proccess that computing unit vs. energy efficiency

[Charbax]

I think they removed the GPU, the thinking is there is no need for a GPU in an ARM Powered Server, unless later you plan to do GPGPU server processing, but that can be for another ARM Powered server chip design in the future.

[John Villar]

Hope so... GPGPU is great for accelerating everything from 3D renders (like the Cycles engine in Blender) to calculating FFTs like crazy to discover new planets... IMHO, they should put massively parallel GPUs there to enhance server performance on big number computation and highly parallel tasks... hope they're reading :)

[Charbax]

ARM and AMD announced the Heterogeneous Computing Association last week to work together on making GPGPU work. It's not ready yet. These ARM Powered servers are not about performance, it's about lower price, lower power consumption, density of the server etc.

[Alex Escalante]

Very impressive and competent demonstration with some very irrelevant questions. How do these guys stack up thermally?

[mtothem1337]

13 sata ports? nice if you want a small storage server i suppose for personal use, or bigger systems for comercial.

[shaurz]

Nice, full SoC integration is impressive.

[salubrium]

These look awesome.

[bestvicky2]

very cool product,

[Justin Baum]

First! Well Calxeda is a favorite of mine! I really hope they start doing it!