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ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensions

Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyones attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. Its an interesting piece of work and one I wish Id done despite Morgans politically...

Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Performance management, Servers, duck, Unix, TPC/C, acronym, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, server

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figure

I got an email recently from a fellow deriding Sun's UltraSparc and Solaris. Here's part of what he said: Solaris was always meant for high-end servers, that is to be expected. However, Windows 2003 server often sits on top of the TPC benchmarks well above Solaris. Go figure. The...

Tags: TPC/C, Sun Microsystems Inc.

Blog posts 2005-06-22

Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figure

I got an email recently from a fellow deriding Sun's UltraSparc and Solaris. Here's part of what he said: Solaris was always meant for high-end servers, that is to be expected. However, Windows 2003 server often sits on top of the TPC benchmarks well above Solaris. Go figure. The...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., TPC/C

Blog posts 2005-06-22

Additional Resources

Kickfire: MySQL data box for the rest of us

Given all the various technology news in the last two weeks, it would have been relatively easy to overlook a press release from a small startup called Kickfire, which produces an appliance to run MySQL applications. Snore. Yet another dime a dozen appliance vendor, which will probably...

Tags: Performance, MySQL, I/O, Kickfire, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-04-28

The purloined benchmark

Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-04-08

Beware of flawed CPU efficiency study

Update 2/22/2008 - I originally used the word "rigged" to describe Neal Nelson's study. My reasoning for using the word "rigged" was due to the fact that the test platforms used in Nelson's study painted an inaccurate picture. Nelson's study omitted two generations of Intel products while including...

Tags: Quad-core, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., Neal Nelson, Processors, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2008-01-15

SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmark

SPEC launches standardized energy efficiency benchmarkGreat Article, George.Validates what has been known for some time now. No need for any more made up metrics like ACP or other nonsense.Why are there no AMD fans posting? Could it be because Intel owns the power/perf crown?Yeah, I thought so.Why did SPEC agree...

Tags: Programming languages, server community, SPECpower, Java, Green500 List

Discussion threads 2007-12-17

Configuring and Using TotalStorage Productivity Center (TPC) to Collect and Report SAN Volume Controller (SVC) Data

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data is a premier Java and Web-based solution designed to help to identify, evaluate, control, and predict the enterprise storage management needs. This paper provides detail step-by-step instructions to configure TotalStorage Productivity Center to collect SVC data, to utilize TPC GUI to review out-of-box TPC...

Tags: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center, IBM TotalStorage SAN Volume Controller, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Storage, Hardware

White papers 2007-12-01

Intel rolls out new server, high-end PC chip lineup; Green arms race heats up

Intel has rolled out a new lineup of 16 server and high-end PC processors that sport a new transistor design that saves energy, eliminates lead and halogen materials. These chips were expected and Intel delivered right on schedule. The chips, known as Penryn, is Intel's first to be designed...

Tags: PC Processor, Performance, Server, Intel Corp., Chip, HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Networking, Components, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-11-12

Solaris vs AIX: Price/performance

IBM's newest AIX products feature the Power6, Sun's the UltraSPARC T2. It probably makes sense, therefore, to base a data center hardware cost comparison as much as possible on these two technologies. Comparable scaling is a key issue, but there's enough consistency about the benchmark results both...

Tags: T2, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM POWER6, IBM Corp., Data Centers, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Operating Systems, Network Technology, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Networking, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Solaris vs AIX: The people problem

Please be aware, as I noted last week, that experience in both Sun and IBM environments has left me less than objective on the issue - and I'm therefore relying on readers to catch any errors I may make. That said, I think that it is only...

Tags: Processor, Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM AIX, IBM Corp., E25K, Data Centers, Sun Solaris, Storage, UNIX, Operating Systems, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Data Management, Software, Semiconductors, Components, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2007-10-22

Sun's new servers get intimate with Intel and Microsoft

John Fowler Executive VP Sun Microsystems announced a pair of new Servers yesterday at Sun's head quarters in Menlo Park California.  Fowler showed off one of the servers last week at Intel IDF in San Francisco an posed with Pat Gelsinger standing on the left in picture to the left...

Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., HPC, Servers, Hardware, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-27

AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough?

AMD kicked off the "premier" of their latest microprocessor offering with a launch party at the Herbst International Exhibit Hall Monday night.  Partners like VMware, HP, Dell, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others were on hand or were there by video link to celebrate the launch of AMD's single-die quad-core...

Tags: Processor, Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, SPECjbb2005, FBDIMM, Scott Wasson, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-12

Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?

AMD was riding high a year ago dominating sales in the dual-processor Server market and virtually owned the multi-processor (4+) Server market.  Then Intel launched the Core Micro-architecture on the desktop and dual-processor Server market and momentum swung from AMD to Intel overnight in both of...

Tags: Processor, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Intel launches Caneland MP platform and Tigerton CPUs

Intel has announced the launch of the "Caneland" 7300 series MP (multi-processor) 4-socket chipset and the Tigerton XEON MP 65nm CPU.  The clock speeds for the new chip are 1.6, 1.86, 2.40, and 2.93 gigahertz and they are based on Intel's Core Micro-architecture which launched last summer with the Core 2 Duo desktop and Xeon 5100 series dual processor server platform.  The 50...

Tags: Chipset, Server, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., IBM Corp., X4 DDR2, George Ou

Blog posts 2007-09-08

Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core server

Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core serverIsn't that where Intel's solution falls down?16 cores all competing for the same FSB?AMD's press release pointed out that the memory intensive nature of VM's would prove the downfall of Intel's approach of adding more and more cores onto a...

Tags: Network technology, Processors, Sun UltraSPARC T2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, FSB, T2, tiny 2U Intel 7300, server

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list

Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price listwhat about 2XXX BarcelonaWhy dont you show the entire list ?,WOW AMD by all estimates will dominate, I cant believe you said that! Make sure the PPW is with power saving ONAMD silences quad-core criticshttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195086/amd-silences-barcelona-criticsAMD's "Estimated Benchmark Scorestm" are [i]EVIL![/i] X-(.AMD's clearly labeled "Estimated...

Tags: Performance management, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., performance, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-09-06

HP-UX 11i TCP/IP Performance

The HP-UX Networking Stack is especially engineered and tested for optimum performance in an enterprise mission-critical environment. HP-UX 11i v3 exhibits excellent performance on NFS server performance and in the TPC-C benchmark, a measurement of intensive online transaction processing OLTP in a database environment. This white paper is intended as...

Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, Oracle11i, OLTP, HP-UX Networking Stack, Performance Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware

White papers 2007-08-01

Sell magic

Every once in a while I get credible seeming "deepthroat" e-mail -unfortunately these aren't always completely right, as witness this report last January from an Apple insider saying that the iPhone's application processor would be a PPC enabled core made by Samsung. Although he may have been completely right...

Tags: Sun, Hardware, Enterprise Policy

Blog posts 2007-07-18

AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on Barcelona

AMD posts blatantly deceptive benchmarks on BarcelonaPlease double-check your facts......before making wild accusations. Those graphs have not been posted just now after they announced the launch frequencies of 2.0GHz, but have been available on AMDs web site for a long time. Just google for the url and you'll see that...

Tags: Processors, Investment, SPECint, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-07-04