mythology & potential of the arm server

Mythology & Potentialof the ARM Server

Christian “kiko” [email protected]

Linaro Connect USA 20142014-09-17 Burlingame, CA

SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: This presentation contains mildly creative thinking, some degree of speculation and carbon monoxide.

MythStandards drive innovation

MythStandards drive innovation

No 3GNo GPSNo MMSNo FlashNo BT file transferNo copy & pasteNo 3rd party appsNo video recording

MythThe IT buyer Is a Rocket Scientist

MythWorkloads require 64-bit Xeon E7


Over 50%2-core

7.5 GB RAMor smaller


~30% 32bit-onlyuntil March 2012

MythWindows Matters

Myth “Enterprise” Matters

Myth “Enterprise” Matters

EITHER BEING REARCHITECTED OR IRRELEVANT

A brief historyof disruption

What changed since 2004?

For x86,not that much


Elsewhere,almost everything


1. Linux

2. Cloud Computing

3. Mobile userbase explosion

4. High-performance mobile ARM SoCs

5. Software transition to scale-out

6. Software transition to open source

7. ODM direct and bare-bones server design

How you winwith ARM Server

Dramatic

So much better thatthe IT buyer can't ignore us

Dramatically CHEAP?

So much cheaper thatthe IT buyer can't ignore us

Linux Only

Because ARM Servers willonly ever run a free Linux

Open Source Scale Out

Only horizontal-scalingopen source applications matter

Less Baggage

Drop everything a Linux serverdoes not absolutely require

(Hint: stop worrying so much about firmware)

Think System, not CPU

Don't play on terms dictatedby the x86 ecosystem

<3 SCALE OUTEnterprise who?

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