Comments on: HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 Ampere Altra Max Arm Servers Launched

By: spuwho

spuwho — Sun, 03 Jul 2022 03:28:19 +0000

At least Ampere Altra aren’t hiding in a self imposed specification darkroom like Marvell did with ThunderX2. They (Ampere) want market share and aren’t afraid to go get it. Marvell isn’t such a “risc” taker and cancelled ThunderX3. Also HPE isn’t taking a huge “risc” here, Lenovo has been a fab/distribution partner for Ampere for some time selling branded servers.

The wildcard here is Qualcomm Nuvia, their sales team keep making noises about their hot new CPU but it still hasn’t got past taping to fab. So what is the ARM world going to look like in a “post-neoverse” world?

By: Carl

Carl — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 17:13:05 +0000

I worked in a data center from 2012 – 2021: Crash carts were still used…I used to wonder if modest-sized monitors with VGA were still going to be available.

Most of the server interactions were remote via BMC, but sometimes a crash cart was the best/only option.

Once a vendor sent hundreds of servers with the wrong boot order for our imaging system. I had to reboot each server, with a crash cart connected, power-cycle the server and wait for the BIOS options screen to appear.

By: Bob Niland

Bob Niland — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:39:34 +0000

Is that Dsub15 “VGA” port for use with a server-room crash cart?
Is that still a thing (vs. iLO port)?

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 08:34:08 +0000

It will also support OpenBMC: https://www.hpe.com/us/en/compute/openbmc-proliant-servers.html

By: David

David — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 07:48:13 +0000

Would love to see some of these running relatively slow high capacity storage as a Backup Target – particularly as object storage

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:38:46 +0000

Seeing single socket is very interesting. Given that targeting ARM servers still requires a bit more customization than x86 I would have assumed that customers with workloads large enough to cover that investment would be the target audience and that such customers would, by virtue of having sufficiently large workloads, substantially prefer dual socket.

Anyone know if there’s some sort of edge/branch application for which ARM is now well supported enough that it’s no longer all that adventurous; or if people targeting these high core count CPUs aren’t terribly concerned about how many of them are tightly coupled and sharing the same memory space vs. relatively loosely coupled at the network level?