Modern network servers

Kernel & Coding Serfs & System

IB202

08/11 10:00 - 10:40

English

Beginner / 入門

Systems administrators, operating system enthusiasts

While the Intel x86-64 architecture is undisputedly market leader in the
server space, several vendors have started introducing ARM64 boards.
This presentation examines the suitability of ARM64 server boards for
network servers. In particular, we look at the workload of a
moderate-size ccTLD DNS zone (.dk) and how it would perform on ARM64
running FreeBSD.

We consider the viability of the ARM64 platform from performance and
performance/power perspectives. While ARM64 is definitely slower than
Intel on many workloads, it performs at least as well or better than
Intel on workloads that are interesting to the internet community.
Notably DNS is a very appropriate workload for ARM64.

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Philip Paeps

Philip Paeps is an independent consultant and contractor based in
Belgium. He provides research and development on low-level software and
operating systems, particularly in an embedded or real-time context.

His main interests are bootloaders, device drivers and high-performance
networking. He can also be convinced to teach courses and workshops on a
variety of networking-related topics.

In his so-called free time, Philip is a FreeBSD committer contributing
mainly to the kernel and a member of the FreeBSD security team. He was
one of the main organisers of FOSDEM, the largest annual open source
software conference in Europe, from the early 2000s until 2015. He
denies having any involvement with amateur radio or tabletop role
playing games.

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