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What rack-mountable multiple-ARM servers are there out there?

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What rack-mountable multiple-ARM servers are there out there?

I see mentionings of hardware such as http://www.cnx-software.com/2012/08/20/codethink-launches-the-baserock-slab-arm-server/ and https://www.scaleway.com/features/ , but nothing actually on the market.

Even some kind of rack mount for the Odroid, BeagbleBone, RaspBerry Pi etc. would be valuable, though of course 64bit and ECC would be preferable.

Thanks!

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mikaelm
Ah just to be clear, I would like the individual SoC units to have as little firmware as possible, for the security of the computation.

An important part of the goal is to get an as "closed computational environment" as possible, where risk for BIOS/firmware infection by hacker is minimal.

So just CPU, ECC RAM, ethernet, and microSD (or USB) to boot off.

CyberFonic
Well you'd think that it wouldn't be that hard to create a blade server style system using Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. A 256 node, 1U server might just be possible. Of course, the power supply, cooling and LAN fabric would be an interesting challenge.

Rather than 64 bit and ECC RAM, you could have high redundancy on the module level. AFAIK Google do not use server grade systems, just lots of them in a failure tolerant configuration.