I think the performance is more critical than compute density and heating density. In fact, SeaMicro already packs 768 Cores Into its Atom Server.  More details:  [URL]
HP’s Donatelli talked about new Intel Atom and ARM-based server and potential storage. Any insight on what VMware/Virtualiztion can do these platforms?    AllThingsD: The big announcement today was about storage. What’s the important message on that subject from HP that you want people to take away today? Donatelli: Well, I think the top-level message is that with converged infrastructure, which is a strategy that HP has outlined, we’re out to reinvent the entire infrastructure industry. We’ve made major changes in the network industry, and we’ve done that over time. We’ve made major changes in servers, as with our recent announcement that we’re going to build servers with Intel Atom and ARM-based chips. It’s a total reinvention of what servers do. And then with storage, we think we’re doing the same thing. Most people look at storage as a pyramid with different tiers and different ways they address those tiers. Our competitors address those tiers with product after product, and the result is that to customers it becomes really complex and frustrating. What we’re doing with both backup and primary storage is taking what used to require multiple products and instead delivering one single product. With primary storage it’s 3PAR, and for backup, it’s a product called StoreOnce. [URL]
Virtualization for Intel Atom and ARM CPU?