Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by peterb on Monday February 28, 2011 @09:09AM
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CPU speed doesn't concern me, as memory access/front-side bus tends to be the bottleneck in the applications I'm interested in. But non-EEC is a problem. Intel intentionally crippled Atom to not cannibalize its server business. I think a similar platform but with Arm Cortex-A15 would be even more interesting.
RAM is the new disk.
Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by reeses on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:03AM
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And the new disk is RAM. Whoa, you just baked my brain.
Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by lsb on Monday February 28, 2011 @08:43AM
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I think it may have been Google that found that random RAM errors are quite likely over the course of a year, so you really want ECC memory if you're running a server and need uptime.
Re:SeaMicro drops another Atom bomb on the server market
by reeses on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @02:02AM
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I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf
I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hosting provider all but ignoring RAM errors, with them responding,"I rebooted and watched it for a few days, and it seems to have cured the issue."
[1] Do you ever think "bing it" will catch on? I think I've discovered their growth constraint factor.
Any article that calls a cpu a brain has no place on hacker news.
Only seems to be 2Gb RAM support too, single channel, non ECC. And Atom is very slow...