The Progress for Cloud Computing on Arm architecture

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Linaro runs a free Arm64 developer cloud using OpenStack and Magnum to offer VMs, Kubernetes and diskless boot via Ironic+Cinder; work focuses on landing an iSCSI/SCSI gateway, fixing iPXE IBFT firmware gaps and stabilizing the SCSI client. Production clouds report ~100 Arm servers in one region, ~500 VMs across regions, >10 customers, kernel upgrades 4.14→4.18 and Kubernetes 1.16 with containerd, and require newer kernels for SR-IOV fixes; tests show ~3% Hadoop slowdown but 20–50% cost savings vs x86.

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1. 0:00Session introduction
2. 0:34Linaro development overview
3. 3:27Hardware automation challenges
4. 6:41Technical implementation details
5. 9:04Development progress and status
6. 11:55Production experience with ARM
7. 17:49Optimizing ARM infrastructure
8. 20:17Application software status
9. 23:03Enabling ARM ecosystem
10. 26:28Performance and cost benefits

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