On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 11:35:27AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
If I could afford it, I'd pay a significant premium to get a
Talos board.
But as it is, I'm going to be stuck using second hand, pretty old computers
for the foreseeable future.
And even though "significant premium" is a polite understatement in this
case, the Talos was the cheapest [proposed] POWER8 solution by a
substantial margin.
I've also been quite disappointed in the AArch64 offerings so far.
With very few exceptions (eg Gigabyte's mostly-unobtainable MP30-AR0 or
some locked-down appliance-type servers) they've all been ultra-dense
high-end boxes (dozens of cores per U) priced into the stratosphere or
glorified cell phone devkits (eg Tegra-based stuff) that don't sport
enough memory (or other expandability) to run a modern desktop OS.
/rant
- Solomon
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