• hold the presses

    From Maurice Kinal@1:153/7001 to Benny Pedersen on Mon Sep 4 03:09:15 2017
    Hey Benny!

    i like to get lowpowered atom cpu bassed servers in comming years

    I'd hold out for this one;

    https://ark.intel.com/products/97933/Intel-Atom-Processor-C3955-16M-Cache-up-to-2_40-GHz

    Also I see Supermicro is advertising a motherboard for it;

    https://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/atom/A2SDi-16C-HLN4F.cfm

    I couldn't find any prices but it looks like it should come in less than a xeon-d embedded mutilcore system. Note that the above SoC has 16 single thread
    cores which should yeild 16 penguins on bootup. :::evil grin:::

    Also found benchmarks which indicated the C3955 was definetly up to the task of
    pumping out new kernels, almost 5 per hour according to the graphic. Not too shabby.

    If I were in the market for a low powered kick-assed Atom system today the above would be at the top of the list ... depending on the final cost. Also as
    per my last post I'd only put 16G of ECC on there. I think that should be more
    than enough.

    Life is good,
    Maurice

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