Can ARM be the dominant architecture in the server industry?
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ARM , which is one of the architectures of the processor core, has been mounted on devices that require low power consumption such as smartphones and IoT devices so far, but the x86 architecture of Intel and AMD dominates in the server market Is followed. However, structural changes that could benefit ARM in the server market are starting to occur, such as Amazon announcing the next-generation ARM processor `` Graviton 2 '' uniquely designed for AWS, says ScyllaDB VP Glauber Costa States.
Is Arm ready for server dominance?-ScyllaDB
https://www.scylladb.com/2019/12/05/is-arm-ready-for-server-dominance/
Server infrastructure is a business where numbers such as adoption record and scale are important, and it is important to be able to provide more efficient services than ARM's flexible customizability. For this reason, ARM has historically occupied a dominant position in the mobile world, but in the server market , ARMv8 had a tight 1% share in 2017 in the server market. However, ARM says that its energy efficiency makes it compatible with data centers that consume huge amounts of power. Some startups, such as Nubia , provide a standard ARM platform, and there are others who think that things will change in the future.
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The development of the cloud is one of the factors that will dramatically change the economics of choosing a platform. Costa says that if companies leave the cloud to take over server processing and have their own data centers, innovation is more likely to happen. Also, looking at the game market, you can see that games that can be played on hardware platforms such as Xbox and PS4 are locked in. However, as cloud gaming platforms such as Microsoft's Project xCloud and Google's Stadia begin to become mainstream, there is no longer any hardware lock-in and there is no need to change devices for each game. As a result, the game platform will move from hardware to the cloud.
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In 2018, the AWS EC2 A1 instance was announced, and ARM was first adopted by AWS. This event represented a possible change in the server market, but the performance of EC2 A1 was somewhat disappointing. A benchmark test on the ARM-based EC2 A1 and the x86-based EC2 M5d.metal shows that EC2 A1 was significantly different from EC2 M5d.metal in test results other than cache performance.
Also, the key to actually using cloud services is application performance, and the results of individual benchmark tests can sometimes be misleading. When running a standard read benchmark of the Scylla NoSQL database on a single node configuration to examine application performance, the M5.x4large with 16 virtual cores could read 610,000 reads per second, but also A1.metal with 16 virtual cores could read only 102,000 times. The price is about 40% cheaper for A1.metal than for M5.x4large, but the result is that standard reading performance drops by more than 80%.
However, things have changed a lot since the introduction of the EC2 M6g with Graviton 2. As with A1, benchmark tests with M5d.metal and M6g and a comparison of the results show that M6g outperforms M5d.metal in overall performance.
Amazon says that the standard reading benchmark of Scylla NoSQL database is almost the same as M6g as M5d, and that the price will be about 20% cheaper.
While the x86 is still emerging in the server market, Costa says that the server industry is at a turning point, with the rise of cloud applications and the emergence of ARM-based cloud servers that are comparable in performance to x86-based cloud servers. He says.
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