Red Hat is ready for ARM. The 64-bit ARM ecosystem is gradually improved.

Enterprise-level open-source software vendor RedHat is paying close attention to the development of servers using 64-bit ARM processors. By improving enterprise-level features, it will soon begin to adopt the 64-bit ARM platform in the data center. & Ldquo; although you have not seen our commercial products on the market today, we are building leading capabilities. From top to bottom for the upcoming 64-bit technology. If we need to respond to market developments, we will be able to do it. & Rdquo; said JonMasters, chief architect of RedHatARM.

Red Hat, an enterprise-level open-source software vendor, is paying close attention to the development of servers using 64-bit ARM processors. By improving the enterprise-level features, Red Hat will soon begin to adopt the 64-bit ARM platform in the data center.

"Although you didn't see our commercial products on the market today, we are building leading capabilities. From top to bottom for the upcoming 64-bit technology. If we need to respond to market growth, we will be able to accomplish it ." Said Jon Masters, chief architect of Red Hat ARM.

ARM processors will bring huge changes to the computing field, said Masters. ARM is already dominant in smart collection and embedded computing devices, and is also eager to play a role in the data center. In the past few years, ARM processor-based servers have emerged in the server market. HP has begun selling ARM servers through MoonShot.

In the field of data centers, ARM's Low-Power Design has brought about an era of ultra-large-scale computing, where thousands of tiny computing nodes can be deployed on a server rack. "In the near future, we will be able to build a large computing cluster, which will bring about a more fundamental difference ." Masters.

ARM Processors may not have the processing speed of X86 processors, but they can achieve most of the performance through small energy consumption, which means more processors can be deployed in a smaller space.

Many workloads do not require the fastest processor performance, he said. Instead, you can distribute the workload to more processors. "It's more about how much data I can move than how much computing I can do ." He said. For example, cloud computing and Web applications run on distributed servers better than on fewer servers with excellent performance.

ARM can also be designed to operate data centers. ARM's on-chip system design can eliminate the management of many additional server components. For example, an ARM processor can provide interconnected architectures to reduce the need for external cables and top-level rack switches.

"Each blade server has only a few days of discrete cabling ." He said. "However, for ultra-large-scale computing, there is still a lot of work to do ."

Linaro is an industrial organization dedicated to building open source software for the ARM platform. One of its missions is to standardize ARM. Red Hat engineers play a major role in Linaro Enterprise Group (LEG) and LEG has been committed to standardizing software. You can get a Linux version for multiple ARM vendors.

"These are the most basic expectations of the enterprise field ." Added Masters.

"We need to focus on how to make them fundamentally compatible so that you can continue to add value to the stack ." He said.

Another problem is the support of peripheral devices. Cross-32-bit ARM processors are not standardized. Masters revealed that the Expert Group is considering using the 64-bit ARM processor's ACPI (Advanced Configuration and power excuse) standard or UEFI (Unified extensible firmware excuse ). Over time, ARM will provide an automation Director, similar to providing functionality on the PCI bus on X86 machines.

Masters said that Red Hat has not published the Red Hat Enterprise Linux For ARM version. However, he also noticed that Fedora provided a version for ARM.

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