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  • Early TPC-C and H reports for Shanghai relative to Barcelona and Dunnington

    Below are the first performance numbers for the new AMD 45nm Opteron (Shanghai) relative to other recent AMD and Intel Xeon results. 4-way TPC-C Opteron 8360 Quad-core 2.5GHz (Barcelona) 2M L2, 471,883 (DL585G2) Opteron 8384 Quad-core 2.7GHz (Shanghai) 6M L2, 579,814 (DL585G2) Xeon 7350 Quad-core 2.93GHz (Tigerton) 2x4M L2, 407,079 ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on November 19, 2008
  • Dell PERC6 RAID Controller Performance

    Last month, Scott pointed out the really bad performance characteristics of the Dell PERC6 in RAID0 sequential write, particularly compared with RAID-5. Granted, this is not necessarily a red flag because few people use RAID 0 in production. Still, if one can't write code or test correctly, one should not be in the hardware/firmware business. Dell ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on October 1, 2008
  • Recommended Server Systems, 2008 Q3 - Dunnington six-core

    Intel Dunnington  Yet another update with the publication TPC results for the Intel X7460 six core (Dunnington) X7460 2.67GHz 3x3M L2, 16M L3  Dell, HP lists availability Sep 15, 2008, IBM lists availability on the x3950M2 as Dec 10, Dell R900 with 4 x X7460, 2.67GHz, 6 core, 16M L3, $17,195 HP DL580G5 with 4 x ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on August 19, 2008
  • Is any one seriously looking at the HP ProLiant DL785G5?

    Or the IBM x3950M2 8-way Quad-Core Xeon? Consider the following specs: 8-way Quad-Core Opteron (32 cores total) Max Memory: 512GB (64 DIMM sockets) 11 PCI-E slots: 3x16, 3x8, and 5x4 or option for 7 PCI-E and 2HTx   Compare this with the HP ProLiant DL585G5: 4-way Quad-Core Opteron (16 cores total) Max Memory: 256GB (32 DIMM ...
    Posted to Joe Chang (Weblog) by jchang on July 20, 2008
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