The M1 is an awesome processor that would indeed make a nice server, though I suspect most server software wouldn't use the GPU cores. That being said, there are some very nice-looking ARM servers out. Ampere has an 80-core server, for example https://amperecomputing.com/al... [amperecomputing.com] which is engineered to be a great server, with 128 lanes of PCIe per socket, very fast RAM channels, NVME storage, etc. And the world's fastest supercomputer is ARM-based https://www.arm.com/blogs/blue... [arm.com] . You can do a lot with 158,976 CPUs, particularly when they have vector operations added, so they can operate on 512-bit vectors in one operation. The memory throughput of that many CPUs in parallel is pretty amazing!
Slogan: VM Inside. (Score:2)
Now all we need is an M1 in a server form.
Re:Slogan: VM Inside. (Score:2)
The M1 is an awesome processor that would indeed make a nice server, though I suspect most server software wouldn't use the GPU cores. That being said, there are some very nice-looking ARM servers out. Ampere has an 80-core server, for example https://amperecomputing.com/al... [amperecomputing.com] which is engineered to be a great server, with 128 lanes of PCIe per socket, very fast RAM channels, NVME storage, etc. And the world's fastest supercomputer is ARM-based https://www.arm.com/blogs/blue... [arm.com] . You can do a lot with 158,976 CPUs, particularly when they have vector operations added, so they can operate on 512-bit vectors in one operation. The memory throughput of that many CPUs in parallel is pretty amazing!