In our last article, I showed that the current power management does not seem to work well with the Windows Scheduler. We got tons of interesting suggestions and superb feedback. Also several excellent academic papers from two universities in Germany which confirm our findings and offer a lot of new insights. More about that later.The thing that is really…
Cloud Computing was probably the most popular buzzword of 2009. There was a lot of hype, but basically, cloud computing is about using the large datacenters of the Internet to your advantage. Either by copying the methods they use to be very scalable and available and applying them in your own datacenter (what VMware is partly trying to do with their…
Agner Fog, a Danish expert in software optimization is making a plea for an open and standarized procedure for x86 instruction set extensions. Af first sight, this may seem a discussion that does not concern most of us. After all, the poor souls that have to program the insanely complex x86 compilers will take care of the complete chaos called “the x86 ISA”,…
First of all, we were pretty excited to see so many comments and votes (5000!) on our last IT poll. It is good to see that professional IT is so much alive at Anandtech.com. So yes, we should have updated this blog quicker, to keep the momentum going. The reason why this update comes rather late is -once again - that we are working on the much delayed hypervisor…
If you read our last article, it is clear that when your applications are virtualized, you have a lot more options to choose from in order to build your server infrastructure . Let us know how you would build up your “dynamic datacenter” and why!
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Take two Nehalem dies, turn them 90 degrees, add a lot of system interface logic and 8 MB extra of L3-cache and you get - very oversimplified - the impressive Nehalem EX, alias “Beckton”. The new Xeon MP is an impressive monster, just like it’s predecessor Dunnington. Dunnington consisted of 1.9 Billion transistors, the Xeon MP based on the “Nehalem”…
We promised you a new datapoint, a new independent virtualization benchmark in “a few days”. Those “few days” have become a week in good “IT at Anandtech” tradition. 
But this wednesday, unless Murphy strikes us hard, the article will be online. It will offer a refreshing look at the virtualization performance, the result of months of work. Liz…
In our last article about server CPUs, I wrote:
“the challenge for AMD and Intel is to convince the rest of the market - that is 95% or so - that the new platforms provide a compelling ROI (Return On Investment). The most productive or intensively used servers in general get replaced every 3 to 5 years. Based on Intel’s own inquiries,…
My last post generated quite a bit of discussion, some of it based on misunderstandings. In this post I’ll try to make a few things more clear. In a previous post, I pointed out that there are a good indications that a dual Nehalem EP has a 40 to 100% advantage over Shanghai (depending on the application, based on the SAP and Core i7 workstation benchmarks).
If…
