Creating a new ARM/AVR platform

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Feb 29 17:41:21 UTC 2012


On 29 February 2012 17:32, Jacob Mansfield <cyberjacob at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We're moving more into the region of information that I cannot disclose,
> but I will do my best to answer
>
> On 29 Feb 2012, at 17:26, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> all of the above

OK, so not a very very low-end system, then.

> OK - rack mount or some small device that attaches to the side of a
> rack or sits on top or something? Wired into the network backbone, its
> own network, wireless, telephone line logging, what?
>
> Rack mount, wired into the network via ethernet and our proprietary
> communication system, accessed via RS232/serial

There are quite a number of off-the-shelf rackmount Atom servers these days.

http://linitx.com/product/13003
http://www.supermicro.com/products/nfo/atom.cfm
http://www.broadberry.co.uk/intel-atom-rackmount-servers/cyberserve-atom-102f

Any of these will run plain old Ubuntu Server without any additional
customisation or tweaking. No porting or anything required.

At the moment, ARM servers of this form are still new, exotic and
something of an unknown quantity. Probably best avoided, TBH. The
prototypes I've seen are fancy things that mount up to 16 blades in a
1U case - they're intended for small server farms, not for something
fairly vanilla like monitoring.

> The device will focus more on server load and power usage

Ahh right.


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