Facebook moving to ARM based datacenters?

[rpg.314]

http://semiaccurate.com/2010/08/23/facebook-first-jump-arm-servers/

This could be massive. Assuming the trend takes off, it could make upset the CPU industry massively. The company apparently behind it all seems to have an interesting set of job openings.

http://www.smooth-stone.com/careers/

 

[flynn]

Maybe they are already bottlenecking on I/O and an ARM cpu is powerful enough to handle the load. Could be very interesting and other companies might follow after if they have similar workloads.

There's still some hope for non-x86 in the datacenter after all.