On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 08:56:54PM -0500, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
I think you can buy Cavium ThunderX systems if you get in touch with the distributor in Canada. We have some of their systems in the US for arm64 build farm purposes.
I think now you can, but even a year or two ago, good luck. I think the most powerful I managed to get my hands on was an 8 core 64bit A53 reference board from Freescale (NXP? Qualcomm?) but that was a pain to try to work with because the network ports were totally weird and non standard and kernel support was not integrated yet.
But yes, the long promised ARM in the datacentre thing seems to remain just that, a promise with no major channel resellers or anyone offering much in terms of product.
HP tried high density ARM servers with its Moonshot blades, but it seems like that effort died off in 2014 as soon as it started, and the whole HP/HPE thing the next year probably didn't help.
Also a box full of independant small 32 bit arm servers was not what people wanted. They wanted large single image multicore 64 bit arm servers. -- Len Sorensen