Re: Someone installed an aarch64 Christmas gift: There is now a ampere4 with 150 or so FreeBSD CPUs and 24 builders running in parallel [an ampere5 exists too]

On 2025-12-29 18:14:11 (+0800), Ronald Klop wrote:
> Do you have some info about the new ampere4 and ampere5 servers? Maybe some tech specs and the expected use cases.

ampere4 and ampere5 are obscenely deep 2U machines that have been sitting in storage for a while because we didn't have racks that could accommodate them.

They're both Ampere Mt Collins machines.  Two CPUs each, for 160 cores per machine.  There's 256G memory in ampere4 (16*16G) and 128G in ampere5 (8*32G).  We've ordered more memory for ampere5 (another 8*32G).  That should show up in the next week or so.

They're both on a single drive (well - flimsy non-hot swap NVMe) for the time being.  More drives have been ordered for them.  These should also arrive in the next week or so.

Happy Christmas. :)

Philip clusteradm Claus