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Re:Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Te... by imtringued on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:35AM (#16657899)
Those SBCs are still stuck with using very outdated SoCs usually with a quadcore A53. Even a 7 node cluster of SOPINEs is going to be slower than an iPhone X.
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Re:Power 9 May Dent X86 Servers: Alibaba, Google, Tencent Te... by rbanffy on Friday March 23, 2018 @05:06PM (#16662634)
That's not the point. The point is that it's a cluster of network-connected nodes that can run something like Kubernetes.
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