Energy-Sipping ARM Chips Made For Cloud

Grazed from InformationWeek.  Author: Charles Babcock.

Applied Micro Circuits and Canonical planned to demonstrate an OpenStack cloud running on a rack of ARM servers at the Computex tradeshow Friday in Taiwan. Major server manufacturers, including Dell and HP, and original design manufacturers from around the world, such as Quanta, Avnet, and Hyve, were expected to view the demonstration.

ARM is the chip used in many smartphones and mobile devices, and it’s not usually associated with either enterprise data centers or cloud computing. But Applied Micro will show a rack of 14 servers based on its X-Gene server chip. They will be running Icehouse, the latest version of OpenStack, under Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux…


The demonstration will also show Apache web servers, SugarCRM open-source CRM, Hadoop, the Elasticsearch search engine, and the Mediawiki open-source code used to produce Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and Wikimedia Commons…

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