Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by linux4kix on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:32AM
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The core count and network processing is the same, but the number of SERDES lanes is half. This allowed the SOC's die size to be much smaller. You can fit 4 SOMs in the space of a single CEX7 module.
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Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:33AM
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> You can fit 4 SOMs in the space of a single CEX7 module.
Do they like multi-"socket" settings?
Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by linux4kix on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:40AM
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There is no backplane for the CPUs no. But they support 10 and 25Gbps networking that can be used for high speed clustering.
Re:Honeycomb LX2 ARM Workstation: An Alternative to x86
by rbanffy on Friday August 27, 2021 @11:04AM
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Now that you mention that, it's quite an upgrade over my idea of putting 32 Octavo easy to interface packages (you need to connect like 5 balls for what I want) along with a ethernet switch and make a cluster of 32 puny nodes...
The number 32 is important because a stack of boards should look like a Thinking Machines CM-2a (http://www.corestore.org/cm2a.htm) and each CPU would control one LED (or three - Octavo now has a 3-core, two puny, one even punier, part, ending up with only 10 nodes per board).