Not waiting for Calexda, Dell is developing its own low-power ARM-based microservers.
\nThe dense, cheap widgets aren\u2019t generally available. They aren\u2019t ready for prime time yet.
\nInstead Dell\u2019s got a seed program happening called Copper that won\u2019t brighten Intel\u2019s mood any since Dell is the second-largest maker of x86 servers behind HP, and HP is also skipping down the ARM path. What\u2019s more, Dell, at least, is ultimately contemplating the enterprise mainstream despite the risk of cannibalization.
\nIt said Tuesday morning that it\u2019s shipped ARM-based clusters to a few \u201chyperscale\u201d customers for evaluation and it\u2019s putting demonstration clusters at Dell Solution Centers worldwide \u2013 as well as at the Texas Advanced Computing Center, the supercomputing center at the University of Texas in Austin \u2013 where they can be remotely accessed by ISVs so they can develop the nascent ARM server ecosystem. <\/p>\n