Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers

Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by pavlov on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @05:39AM (#10115353)

The 11.88 € option has an Exynos 5422 + 2 GB RAM + 32 GB MicroSD card -- those are guts of a Galaxy S5 or Galaxy Note 3 smartphone. Interesting choice for a server.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by rwmj on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:28AM (#10115476)

I think by "interesting" you meant to write "terrible". I'm wondering who on earth is the market for this? 32 bit ARM (even A15) is not a great server platform.

If it had been 64 bit ARM with a real amount of RAM and an SSD then it might be more interesting. Even there (and I say this as someone who has an APM Mustang under my desk), it's more likely of benefit to people hosting web servers at scale than for VPS.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by pavlov on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:51AM (#10115543)

I think by "interesting" you meant to write "terrible".

Well, yes, but I was hoping someone would put it more eloquently, so thanks :)

I can't see what the target market is. The I/O is going to be terrible for hosting files. And 32-bit ARM is at a disadvantage for anything more computationally intensive (as you pointed out).

Maybe there's a group of users out there who have been thinking for years: "If only I could have my old smartphone colocated in a data center"...?

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by kryptiskt on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:20AM (#10115892)

Pretty niche, but they would likely be good for running CI for ARM. Or just for offloading tests to, it would be much better than emulation.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by lazyjones on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:06AM (#10115825)

> I'm wondering who on earth is the market for this?

People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by MichaelGG on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @08:26AM (#10115929)

>People whose web pages generate a lot of traffic (10TB allowed) with low CPU usage, i.e. static pages and similar.

Surely such cases are better served by offloading to a CDN. As much as I hate centralizing to one company, CloudFlare nails this pretty damn well.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by jaysh on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @10:23AM (#10116658)

Wouldn't those users be better served by a $5 VPS? They're cheaper per-month, have no setup fee, and probably even get provisioned quicker.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by lesingerouge on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @06:49AM (#10115536)

I will try to test if those "servers" would be good for task processing. Example: let's say I have a ton of websites to crawl (high IO, not much CPU, ideally parallel). I could use a couple of these to cheaply do the job.

I am guessing that any job that is not CPU or memory hungry would fit the bill. Like crawling, sending a massive amount of emails, simple text processing, maybe even as a RabbitMQ server.

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by rwmj on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @07:12AM (#10115622)

I have an Odroid XU [1] which is similar to this. For 32 bit ARM it's actually not too slow, but I/O is terrible with an SD-card. There is an optional eMMC card which improves the situation, but IIRC there's no option to use an SSD. Note the server advertised here isn't quite the same so YMMV.

[1] https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2013/10/18/odroid-xu-arrives/

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by brianwawok on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @11:50AM (#10117304)

Would it beat a pair of $5 VMs from digital ocean though?

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Re:Samsung Exynos-5422 Octa-Core Servers by lesingerouge on Tuesday August 25, 2015 @12:36PM (#10117708)

I could think of an application in which there would be minimal disk interaction and just lots of network action and in-memory processing so hypothetically it all depends on how the CPU handles parallelization through its cores.

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