Archive for the ‘IT Computing’ Category

The Intel Xeon 5670: Six Improved Cores

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

The new Xeon “Westmere” 5600 series, has arrived. …

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10Gbit Ethernet: Killing Another Bottleneck?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

More cores (32 to 48) in medium-range servers results in 20 to 50 VMs on one virtualized server. We investigate if 10Gbit Ethernet is finally ready to solve the NIC I/O bottleneck. Is 10Gbit Ethernet still a technology for the happy few?…

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Dynamic Power Management: A Quantitative Approach

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Performance per Watt rules the datacenter, right? Wrong. Join us as we investigate why there’s more to it than just being green….

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AMD’s 2010/2011 Roadmap from the IT Professional’s Perspective

Monday, November 23rd, 2009

We tried to find out what the new AMD roadmap means for our IT readers: the professionals who actually configure and buy these servers….

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Expensive Quad Sockets vs. Ubiquitous Dual Sockets

Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

Should you bother with quad socket servers now that we have powerful dual socket platforms available? We check how the quad Xeon X7460, quad Opteron 8345, and the dual socket servers compare in terms of performance and power use….

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Testing the latest x86 rack servers and low power server CPUs

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

We test five different x86 rack servers that focus on reducing power requirements and keeping costs very low. At the same time, we show how the low power Opterons and Xeons stack up to their faster siblings….

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Optimizing for Virtualization, Part 2

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This is the second part of our ESX optimization tips and tricks, diving into storage optimization and configuration options….

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Optimizing for Virtualization

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Want to gain the upper hand on your colleagues by getting the very best performance out of ESX? AnandTech IT shares its best practices uncovered in the development of their vApus Mark I benchmark….

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AMD’s Six-Core Opteron 2435

Monday, June 1st, 2009

AMD added 2 cores to the improved AMD quad-core “Shanghai”. Which applications can take advantage of these extra cores? The answer is more interesting than you might think at first. …

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Real-world virtualization benchmarking: the best server CPUs compared

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

We proudly present our newest virtualization benchmarking effort: vApus Mark I. The results are quite surprising on the latest server CPUs as it paints a very different picture than VMmark. Get a second opinion on how strong or weak the different CPUs are when they are running heavy-duty virtualized applications on ESX 3.5 Update 4….

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