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How we enabled ARM64 VMs
AWS popularized Arm-based CPUs with their Graviton line. When compared with x86, this new CPU architecture offers 40% better price/performance. Arm-based CPUs also consume up to 60% less power, making them attractive for use in large data centers. So, we wanted to share with you what we learned in enabling arm64 VMs on Ubicloud and the challenges we ran into in the process.
When compared with x86, this new CPU architecture offers 40% better price/performance; this makes Arm particularly appealing for compute-intensive workloads such as HPC, video encoding, and data science. For example, thanks to Microsoft and Intel / AMD’s focus on backwards compatibility, many apps built a decade earlier can still run on Windows today. So instead, Ubicloud now asks the machine for its architecture, we use the previous step to create a normalized name, and save this state in a column in our control plane database.
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