But the market is definitely moving toward a fitter/healthier/ROI-focused model – and that's what ARM offers.
It will also want to avoid upsetting Intel too much. KitGuru says: While Dell wants to have options, it also does not want to ‘Do an Atom' on its mainstream server offerings – where customers replace high margin hardware with cheap ARM servers. Small, cheap, powerful and you get 48 in a packet. The University of Texas at Austin has already decided to move across to these Dell ‘Copper' server systems. Twelve of these sleigh modules fit into a 3U server chassis, giving 48 server nodes inside a single chassis. The launch of Dell's new ‘Copper' servers (powered by multi-core ARM processors) can run on 15 watts of power with 8GB of memory – and up to four of these ‘mini servers' can fit on a single long board called a sleigh. Until recently, a lot of the server market has been pwned by Intel, but it looks like Dell has a younger, fresher model that it wants to bed. While ‘king of the overall server market' is a battle fiercely fought, Michael Dell kicks butt in the Density-Optimised Server environment.ĭata from IDC shows that Dell is around twice as powerful as HP in this market, and having achieved a 39% share of units shipped – compared to 18.5% for poor old HP in second spot. Welcome to the realm of low-cost, high-performance server computing – where ROI is everything and performance per watt is the credo by which a data centre manager lives. At the same time, systems became more powerful and the sheer effort of exhausting the heat from a data centre became prohibitively expensive. Big boxes were, surely, more powerful than smaller ones – so the chassis design teams went to town and created boxes that looked like they were about to achieve self-awareness.īut then the electricity bills started to arrive.
It’s not long ago that servers were designed to impress customers, based on their size. KitGuru gives itself a once over with a scanner before entering the data centre to see what the future has in store. Then came Apricot’s 486 servers and things started to calm down. Even something as humble as a 200MB hard drive was the size of a washing machine and it would thud and thunk as the read/write head flew across a massive spinning disk. Go back far enough, and servers were mini-computers or even mainframes.
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