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Is Facebook Planning a Move to ARM Based Servers?

27 pointsby josephscottover 11 years ago

6 comments

salientover 11 years ago
So is Google:<p><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-12/google-said-to-mull-designing-chips-in-threat-to-intel.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bloomberg.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;2013-12-12&#x2F;google-said-to-mull...</a>
justincormackover 11 years ago
The proposed applications (network control plane) don&#x27;t correspond to what you would write in PHP (the main Facebook app).<p>The arm64 stuff on the other hand is looming like being the first new RISC architecture since er alpha and there may well be a move towards using it. There was a story recently that Google has an ARM license too.
kintamanimattover 11 years ago
Why ARM? What are the benefits of ARM compared to other architectures? Are there drawbacks to the architecture?
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tdmackeyover 11 years ago
They&#x27;ve been hiring for this for a while now, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=engineering&amp;req=a0IA0000006cPTMMA2" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com&#x2F;careers&#x2F;department?dept=engineering...</a>
corditeover 11 years ago
Didn&#x27;t HP consider making blade like units with up to 20 servers per unit? I saw that they canceled that due to some deal with Intel.
twotwotwoover 11 years ago
Maybe for things like photo storage, where CPU speed isn&#x27;t that important. Baidu is already using ARM servers for cloud storage.