[Arm-netbook] A10 server dreamboard

[lkcl luke]

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Lauri Kasanen <cand at gmx.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 29 May 2012 15:24:49 +0300
> Tsvetan Usunov - OLIMEX Ltd <usunov at olimex.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you think will be most useful (speak as performance not price) for
>> ARM embedded server with A10?
>> ok, ETHERNET is must, I guess HDMI and many USB ports etc are not necessary
>> in this case although they are build in and will not rise the BOM
>> significant
>
> Ethernet, SATA, at least two USB2.
>
>> cheap LiPo 1.4Ah backup battery for stand alone operation few hours without
>> main power supply instead to use costly UPS?
>>
>> RAM amount 1-2GB?
>> FLASH amount 4-8GB enough?
>
> Max amount of RAM, which I guess is 2gb;

 it's 1gb.  the maximum RAM that the A10 can handle (externally) is 1gb.

> Standard mounting holes please, *TX would be best. Are you planning to do just the boards, or a rack unit with several of them onboard?

 the plan for the EOMA-68 project is to provide a standard *TX
IO/Board with standard mounting holes, taking at least one EOMA-68 CPU
card, potentially several.  if several, an ethernet switch would be
required.

> If the latter, you'd also need the internal power arrangement, and maybe an embedded eth switch too, depending on the goal (shared nothing? Compute nodes?).

 that's right.  this was discussed a few months back and some of the
ideas recorded here:
 http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/
 http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/cluster_server/

 l.