Ubuntu is a kind of cloud based on ARM architecture

April 28, 2010, arm company chief executive Warren East of the "EE Times" said: "Servers based on ARM multicore processors should arrive the next Twelve months "means that a server based on an arm multi-core processor will appear within the next 12 months. The fact has proved: in the past year, the development of ARM server has made tremendous progress, low-power, high-performance "cloud computing" has been ready to appear. This is an important concept or understanding: Low power Servers based on ARM architectures have surfaced.

We ask: How does the "Physical cloud" (that is, the Internet "Cloud Center") manage based on ARM multi-core processors? How to manage the "cloud" composed of hundreds of thousands of ARM architecture servers distributed in different "cloud centers"? Scheduled for October 13 release of Ubuntu 11.10 (server version) is the world's first support arm multi-core server Linux operating system, see the passage: "Ubuntu server trenches, the big picture" (October 6), The specific statement is "Ubuntu Server 11.10 Will is" the "the" "the" the "the" and support for the "ARM architecture", the article also said: "We ' re now in a point where ARM Processors are Inc. to handle workloads traditionally do by Intel and AMD based servers "means that we are now at a" point in time " On: The ARM multi-core processor (architecture) is able to cope with the workloads that previously required traditional Intel and AMD processors. This is another important basic understanding.

Yesterday afternoon, my friend in Shenzhen ("Cloud Boss") went to the IBM Research and Development Center in Beijing to watch the actual demo of IBM "Internal Cloud", raised the idea of the cloud, correct some misconceptions, such as the traditional cloud is a "Barroth", and arm cloud represents the future direction of development. In the meantime, I put the Ubon brand "Cloud Terminal" ("Cloud Terminal") to the IBM technical experts to see (simple test), the original that there is ARM processor (533MHz), memory 64MB, with a very small operating system, you can start from, Direct access to the Internet Cloud Center, from which we can rightly call it "cloud terminal."

Remember, I have seen on a Web page a arm multi-core server consumes only 60 watts, is the ordinary x86 server one-tenth, thus, the Internet Cloud Center "Barroth" hat will be removed, cloud center room air-conditioning cooling problem is basically solved. In fact, the Ubuntu server 12.04 LTS version, due to be released next April 26, will be a fuller (a full blown) based server cloud operating system on the arm, which is a boon to us.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)