New ARM Architectures for Servers: 64 bit, Virtualization, and Energy Efficiency

A major shift has occurred in the types of workloads run in large cloud data centers driven by the "mega-trend" of the growth in data-intensive mobile devices. The rise of cloud companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon is bringing about a change in attitudes to processors -the emphasis is now on light computing tasks but with lots of parallelism and frequent use of large amounts of data. Power consumption by each individual processor is growing more important … and this has led to ARM chip adoption in the datacenter.

Last year ARM announced 64-bit designs for servers, so in the next year when ARM licensees start producing the processors, big things should happen in the datacenter.

This presentation will detail the latest in ARM server design, share some of the initial comparison data between ARM and incumbent server platforms, discuss the shifting ecosystem supporting the changing market trends, and the changes coming to ARM v8.

Speaker: Lakshmi Mandyam, Director of Server Systems and Ecosystem, ARM