looking to buy ARM servers

[Muli Ben-Yehuda]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 05:11:34PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 10:14:43AM +0200, Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > I am looking to purchase ARM servers, preferably with the new
> > Cortex-A15 processors.
> 
> The Cortex-A15 core has just been announced by ARM. Don't expect to
> see actual Cortex-A15 based chips in less than a year.

Ok -- then earlier generation CPUs would be fine too.

> > This is to run general purpose server workloads, so I would like
> > to buy full integrated servers rather than build them up myself
> > from embedded boards. Any ideas who sells such beasties in Israel?
> 
> Are you interested in processing horsepower, or storage?

Mostly processing, although storage is also interesting.
 
> The closest thing to "server" in the ARM world is probably a NAS
> box. See arch/arm/mach-kirkwood/Kconfig in a recent kernel for a
> list of some things, including QNAP and LaCie offerings. Since these
> are all ARMv5 chips with VIVT cache, their processing capabilities
> are seriously limited.

Thanks for the tip. Any recommendation on where to buy on these boards
in Israel?

Cheers,
Muli