RISC-V gets a feature that may prove integral to future server and enterprise implementations
  • cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
    23·
    3 days ago

    I’m curious, does a 3 minutes power down to replace a RAM stick is that much of a deal in enterprise server that they need to invented a whole new technology just for that?

    • JordanZ@lemmy.world
      17·
      3 days ago

      Buddy works in a data center. Ram upgrades on a few racks of servers took him weeks…

      Mind you this was with zero downtime. So spin up a server, move the traffic, shut down/swap ram, boot up server, swap traffic back, repeat until you want to cry.

    • frezik@midwest.social
      12·
      3 days ago

      Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.

      Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.

      • psvrh@lemmy.ca
        1·
        2 days ago

        Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
      6·
      3 days ago

      First of all, yeah. In enterprise, 1000 transactions per second can be a requirement. Second, enterprise servers take longer to spool up than 3 minutes.