Hi!
I would like some info.
I've seen around the internet that the Cavium thunderX and thunderX2 have 48-core ARM processors and other higher cores.
Thanks for your feedback to the experts.
The work between Microsoft and Cavium is to do with data centers. I wouldn't hold my breath about them doing graphics using PC cards. I guess there' some possibility they may get hitched up at some stage with a graphics type processor used for computation but that's pure speculation and nothing like running some graphics. They'd have no incentive to port the graphics drivers. At the other end of the range any graphics would be built into the chip. There's no real market for an external graphics board at the low end. No one is going for the mid to high range PC market - though I suppose you never know what can happen with Linux in Russia or China
I'm not sure about AMD but yes, most Nvidia cards will work with ThunderX2 as Nvidia just updated their drivers for it, the release was meant for Tesla and Volta cards though but the recent 2000 generation should also work as well. I have the dual 32 Core (64 Cores/128 Threads) version, 128GB RAM, 2TB SSD Samsung 960 Pro, 10TB Seagate SATA, Nvidia Titan V, Tesla (which is an over kill by a factor of 100), Why than, well after building my latest Workstation, in which I went all in with AMD, including: two insane Epyc 32 Core CPU'd and two must have WX-9100 GPU's, (I'm a purist) the Titan V taken out of my previous machine needed a new home. Though I also have a ThunderBolt enclosure for it for when I need an external GPU on my laptop (LAN party's).
Anyway, the ThunderX2 right now is primarily used for Android App development in which I cannot tell you how cool it is to compile on an actual ARM system like this. I also use it for Blender now as with the Titan V it kind of begged me to use it this way, that and Ray-Tracing is one of the ThunderX2's strengths, faster than even Intel's best Xeon offerings. Which means rendering in Blender runs like a dream.
I just wish Davinci Resolve 15 and a few other applications were available for ARM as I would seriously go all in with just using the ThunderX2 as it's a fantastic SOC, especially for it's price. I will be updating to the 48 Core version as soon as it becomes available to purchase on the site as I've already sold my 2 32 Core CPU's to someone who has the 24 Core version.
Where do you buy the thunderx2 processors?In which site?
Dear calden, can you share the link of Nvidia aarch64 driver? I can not find it at all.