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Yeah especially as the Atom N550 which has been out for a while has 64 bit support.

Any article that calls a cpu a brain has no place on hacker news.

Only seems to be 2Gb RAM support too, single channel, non ECC. And Atom is very slow...

CPU speed doesn't concern me, as memory access/front-side bus tends to be the bottleneck in the applications I'm interested in. But non-EEC is a problem. Intel intentionally crippled Atom to not cannibalize its server business. I think a similar platform but with Arm Cortex-A15 would be even more interesting.

RAM is the new disk.

And the new disk is RAM. Whoa, you just baked my brain.

I think it may have been Google that found that random RAM errors are quite likely over the course of a year, so you really want ECC memory if you're running a server and need uptime.

I found a (the?) paper on the topic: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf

I was going to ask you for a citation but realized that would be lazy when I could google[1] it myself. I've had a couple arguments with a hosting provider all but ignoring RAM errors, with them responding,"I rebooted and watched it for a few days, and it seems to have cured the issue."

[1] Do you ever think "bing it" will catch on? I think I've discovered their growth constraint factor.

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