[Arm-netbook] EOMA server standard

[luke.leighton]

On 10/23/12, Baybal Ni <nikulinpi at gmail.com> wrote:
> I doubt that there is any use for 10 Gb phy on arm system yet.

 use?  i don't know that there is or isn't: it's not up to us to say,
one way or the other. but it can't be ruled out: Calxeda has
XAUI/10GbE.

> Although, you can already get cheap LP gigabit phys. I was imagining
> that EOMA servers will work in mode of a hadoop system, a distributed
> database of some kind or highly-distributed computing.

 yes.  and more.

> The killer feature here is not speed, but efficient interconnect. It
> will be good if we can also get efficient on-backplace switch chip and
> be able to organize efficient clustering.

 hmm... that would tend to imply having an inter-connect (switch) chip
be part of the specification.

 l.