Comment by Paianni
7 years ago
The Socionext E-series Developerbox has open source firmware and is at least cheaper than the Raptor stuff.
7 years ago
The Socionext E-series Developerbox has open source firmware and is at least cheaper than the Raptor stuff.
It's a nice system, and definitely cheaper, but it isn't a reasonable price comparison as it isn't even remotely in the same performance ballpark as POWER9.
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=arm-24co...
Depends on the workload and the # of cores in the POWER9 chip(s). The Socionext has 24 cores!
Edit: Admittedly only massively parallel workloads will be faster than the POWER9, and only if the POWER9 has limited cores. A bit of a stretch for most use cases.