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Save money: buy from the enemy

I can see your point butis the processor arms race not still being pushed more by what is happening in the consumer rather than server space. Also are the processors in datacentres starting to move to desktop/mobile processors rather than server ones as they are more energy efficient. If we...

Tags: Processors, processor, server, CPU, PPC

Discussion threads 2009-08-22

Would you run a server using Intel's Atom processor?

Would you run a server using Intel's Atom processor?Sure!Why not!? For many tasks the CPU is perfect. Webserving, filesharing, and other simple SMB apps.The consumer crowd is successfully doing HD video decoding, and other CPU intensive tasks.Looking at Exch, SQL, virtualization probably nor.It all comes down to profit....

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Servers, Processors, server, Intel Atom, Intel Corp., processor, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-03-09

Win Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 move ahead in lockstep

During Day 2 of WinHEC, Microsoft showed off a number of the new features that it will deliver in Windows Server 2008 R2 -- a k a "Windows 7 Server -- when it ships in the next year or so. Among them: Support for up to 256 logical processors; branch-office...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Server, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Operating Systems, Software, Mary Jo Foley, Processor, Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Corp., Servers, Hardware

Blog posts 2008-11-06

Intel rolls out low power server chips

Intel rolls out low power server chipsIntel's processorsI don't see why Intel never did this when they rolled out it's first line of processors starting with the Intel Pentium II processors. If they did, maybe we would all have power consuming chips. Maybe Intel's worst processors, the Pentium 4 wouldn't...

Tags: Processors, server, Intel Corp., Intel Pentium, processor, chip

Discussion threads 2008-09-08

More images and products from supercomputing 2007

The SC07 supercomputing conference was a very interesting show for me this year and it was my first time attending this conference.  Here are some more interesting products that I haven't covered yet all the way from the very high-end to entry-level HPC computers. Sun's 3456-node "petascale" constellation cluster...

Tags: Processor, Blade Server, Blade, Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Power Supply, Motherboard, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., Supercomputing, Tyan, 1U, TST, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Servers, Processors, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-11-16

Sun Microsystems Power Center

Fastest, most scalable and energy efficient systems. Sun is excited to announce multiple blade and rack systems based on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. Sun's new x64 systems bring new capabilities powered by the Solaris OS and next-generation systems design. These world-class servers deliver some of the industry's top performance,...

Tags: Processor, T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun UltraSPARC, Server, Sun Solaris, Servers, Processors, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components

Resource centers 2007-10-02

Sun shows 2U 16-core Barcelona server with FSB1600

After last week's launch of Sun's 2U 16-core Intel Tigerton server last week, Sun followed up with an AMD Barcelona version last night at AMD's Barcelona launch.  Sun kept the same compact 2U footprint while keeping all the features.  So far, no other Server vendor has...

Tags: Processor, Virtualization, Sun Microsystems Inc., Barcelona, Memory, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., 2U, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-11

Not your father's Intel Architecture

Intel is using this weeks Intel Developer Forum in Beijing to show the new direction in which it is taking its processors. The chipmaker has begun to shift away from designing and manufacturing monolithic or single function chips. Instead, it has begun to create silicon that pairs its Intel Architecture...

Tags: Uncategorized, Servers, semiconductors, Semiconductor architecture, Power conservation, multicore processors, Intel, Data centers, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-17

Servers bathed in oil

A Porsche-o-phile friend of mine sort of jokes that air-cooled Porsche 911 sports car engines aren’t so much air-cooled as they are cooled by circulating their oil, some 12 or 15 quarts of it. (For a more technical explanation, Google “air-cooled Porsche.”) Porsche enthusiasts still argue about the merits of...

Tags: Servers, Power conservation, Uncategorized, semiconductors, Intel, Data centers, AMD

Blog posts 2007-04-11

IBM plans new top-end Xeon servers this year

IBM plans new top-end Xeon servers this yearWarningNote that multi-core is not the same as multi-processor. Professional developers are coding for multi-processor and multi-core. Hence I see this top-end Xeon as kind of the last of a failed experiment where faster and faster single processors were expected. Today we get...

Tags: Processors, Servers, multiprocessor, Intel Xeon, Xeon Servers, processor, Professional Developers, server, IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-03-29

Avaya S8300 and Avaya S8500 Media Server Local Survivable Processor: Issue 4.0

This paper presents a discussion about the Avaya S8300 and S8500 Media Server configured as a Local Survivable Processor LSP. This discussion is intended to describe how the LSP provides the added layer of survivability and how to design a network to take full advantage of the LSP's capabilities. Communication...

Tags: Processor, Media Server, Server, Avaya Inc.

White papers 2007-01-21

The coolest servers and chips: AMD or Intel?

The battle over performance per watt continues to be waged by the x86ers AMD and Intel, as well as the systems providers such as Dell, IBM, HP and Sun. Dell just launched new servers based on 2.33 gigahertz low-voltage Intel Xeon chips. Dell also talks about energy saving tweaks to...

Tags: chip, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Datacenter, Hardware Infrastructure, Software Infrastructure, General, IT Management

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Intel shows off sweet 16 server

Intel shows off sweet 16 serverIntel's got back its mojoThis is about as close to shock and awe as it gets. With 45nm delivered in 12months, it will be unstoppable. Note 45nm is not your average litho shrink. This brings on dramatically better new technologies such as low K...

Tags: Mainframes, Servers, processor, performance, bus contention, mainframe, server, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-20

Intel unleashes Quad Core at IDF Fall 2006

At the fall 2006 IDF (Intel Developer's Conference), Intel widened its lead in the Server and Desktop market by trotting out four quad core server processors and a 2.66 GHz quad core "Extreme Edition" desktop processor. But no one told these real-world applications that the Intel quad core chips...

Tags: quad-core

Blog posts 2006-09-27

Photos: Two new Itanium servers

Intel plans to feature its "Montecito" processor in two four-processor Itanium servers, available later this year.

Tags: Processors, Itanium Server, Intel Itanium, Montecito, server, processor, Intel Corp.

Image galleries 2006-09-22

Can Sun make Niagara II shine in late 2007?

David Kanter offers a sneak peak at Sun's Niagara II processor.Kanter: "Although performance numbers were not forthcoming, the design objectives seem feasible and relatively competitive for a processor slated to arrive in the third quarter of 2007. The improvements in the cores and system architecture for Niagara II are substantial...

Tags: T1000, Niagara II, Niagara

Blog posts 2006-09-13

New Sun servers to use old Sun chip

New Sun servers to use old Sun chipGood old Sungiving us the best of the best from times past. Now that's future foward of them, aand par for the course. ;)From the days of the VikingSun has a history of taking too long to introduce new processors. Usually they...

Tags: Processors, Servers, server, Sun Microsystems Inc., processor, Niagra, chip, Sun Server

Discussion threads 2006-08-31

AMD dominates 4 and 8 socket at Linux World

Quad-core computing can cut server hardware costs and software licensing in half At Linux World 2006 in San Francisco, AMD flexed its muscle in the four and eight socket server market in the IBM and HP booths in addition to its own booth. Both HP and IBM were showing...

Tags: quad-core, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., socket configuration

Blog posts 2006-08-17

Photos: Apple's new server

The Xserve server, which uses two dual-core Xeon processors, is due to ship in October.

Tags: Processors, Apple Xserve, dual-core, server, processor, Apple Computer Inc.

Image galleries 2006-08-17

AMD nabs 25 percent of server market

AMD nabs 25 percent of server marketCome on ... it's not that bad ...."Intel is pinning its hopes of resurrecting its market share--and its stock price--on the new Core generation of processors. The company launched the Core 2 Duo for desktops and notebooks last week during an event at its...

Tags: Processors, Servers, Google Inc., LIKE IT, Intel Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., processor, server

Discussion threads 2006-07-31