On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Mikael <mikael.ml...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Oracle have been talking about making a low-end server model of their >> > new >> > Sparc64 chip, I guess that one will sell at around 5000 USD too. >> >> I guess you talk about so called Sonoma/scale-out SPARCs, well those >> were already unveiled and the prices start on > $11k -- see for >> example S7-2 box configurations. > > > Sonoma was what I was talking about yes. > > My best understanding is that S7-2 is their high-end line and those are >>$11k indeed, and that no Sonoma devices have been released to the market > yet, only pre-announced e.g. > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/24/oracle_sonoma_processor_sparc/ . > > > I didn't see any prices. > > Since their normal price point is >$11k and this should be "much cheaper", > then my wild guess was that that probably should mean something like $5k.
You are wrong on this. SPARC S7 is Sonoma, the higher price is SPARC M7. So it's >$11k low-price versus >$39k (T7-1 box) prices. >> > (I didn't see any convincing ARM64 servers on the market yet.) >> >> I'm not sure, but various of those already looks quite nice, will not >> break the account nor power-bill and still be even comparable to >> POWER7/8 in terms of raw C compilation power. By comparable I mean >> they are not 10 times (or more) slower or so.... > > > The closest to a existing, usable, buyable ARM64 ECC server I saw is > Gigabyte's Cavium and X-Gene1 offers: Yes, those two are just first. > Cavium: > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5926 1U > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5925 1U > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5927 2U > > X-Gene1: > http://b2b.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=5912 mobo > > But, I didn't see them actually for sale anywhere, neither did I see a > concrete price tag. > > If you saw anything interesting feel free to share. Well, R120-P30 is just my first google search and found it in stock for price a bit more than 1k pounds. Otherwise just go to b2b gigabyte and search for arm soc based server barebones, then use their names for google for price.
