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Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 21-Jun-2016 17:45:38
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 21-Jun-2016 19:44:23
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yes. quite a lot, actually. ronald posts regular updates to his twitter account, so you might have a look there.
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 0:14:20
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fron twitter posts it sounds like they are moving on to arm from ppc. _________________
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 0:41:12
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It use a Freescale/NXP T4240.
They are limited to 1.8 GHz, so they must have been planning to use a lot of them.
You ought to check out the price on the T4240 evaluation board.
Its way cheap.
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 11:14:19
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And in big quantities you can purchase it at discounted price... Last edited by Raffaele on 22-Jun-2016 at 11:14 AM.
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 12:43:52
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You ought to check out the price on the T4240 evaluation board.
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i paid $4000 +tax and shipping for mine. super duper cheap!_________________
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 13:39:38
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DAMN!
Are we both talking about the T4240RDB-PB or its predecessor?
That is going for $1445 right now.
I have a dual quad core Xeon system on hand that runs almost twice as fast and has a higher memory capacity.
But this PPC board has a 12 core, 24 thread processor.
In other words, the T4240 can run 3 times the number of threads that my Xeon system can.
Of course, that is a bit much for one user (even though I'd still like to have one).
But as a server it would be pretty capable. Last edited by iggy on 22-Jun-2016 at 01:41 PM.
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 20:20:59
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I got the bigger QDS kit. I wanted more PCI-Express, and wasn't happy with how the RDB ports were arranged. _________________
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Re: Any news on this PowerPC based 64-bit microDataCenter?
Posted on 22-Jun-2016 23:59:03
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I don't think that is available anymore, I could be wrong.
With the two PCIe slots I have video and sound covered, so I'm good.
Edit - My bad, it is still listed. That is nice, but I can't justify the price.
I may have to buy the smaller board for server duty.
The power draw is really low. Last edited by iggy on 23-Jun-2016 at 12:03 AM.
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