Two of the previous three posts I've made about our upgraded server infrastructure have focused on performance. In the second post I talked about the performance (and reliability) benefits of going with our all-SSD architecture, while in the third post I talked about the increase in CPU performance between our old and new infrastructures. Today however, it's time to focus on power consumption. Our old server infrastructure came from a time where power consumption mattered, but it hadn't yet been prioritized. This was before Nehalem's 2:1 rule (2% perf increase for every 1% power increase), and it was before power gating. Once again I turned to our old HP DL585 server with four AMD Opteron 880s (8-cores total) as an example of just how things...
Intel Developer Forum Fall 2003 – Day 1: Otellini's Keynote
IDF has begun and unlike past years, the first keynote has a decent amount of information to pass on...
5 by Derek Wilson on 9/16/2003CEO Forum - Q3/2003
What do you get when you gather 13 of the most influential CEOs in the motherboard market? An excellent avenue to understand where this industry is headed. ...
9 by Andrew Ku on 7/20/2003AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 3: The First Servers Arrive
You've read about the architecture, you've seen the benchmarks, now find out if the servers based on AMD's Opteron platform have what it takes to be competitive.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/23/2003Xeon 2.8GHz DP & 2.0GHz MP - Part I: Taking over the Enterprise
Intel has completely revamped their server and workstation products. Find out if Hyper-Threading, a 2MB on-die L3 cache and 4 CPUs can pass our rigorous server tests in...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/18/2002AMD Athlon MP 2200+ Server Roundup - September 2002
Instead of providing a review of the Athlon MP 2200+ we decided to round up 6 servers based on AMD's flagship MP CPU. Find out how far Athlon...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2002AMD's Athlon MP 2100+ vs. Intel's Xeon 2.4GHz - Database Server Comparison
We've updated our popular Database Server Comparison tests with the fastest CPUs from both AMD and Intel. Take a look and see how things stack up using AMD's...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/19/2002Database Server CPU Comparison: Athlon MP vs. Hyper Threading Xeon
Desktop CPU comparisons are a dime a dozen, but how easy is it to tell what CPUs perform well in the enterprise market? Featuring the first benchmarks of...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/4/2002Behind AnandTech - 2002 Server Upgrade
We've upgraded our servers, again. Take a look at what 18 new CPUs in some very high performance servers have been able to do for us.
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/1/2002Digging into Phoneline Networking and HomePNA 2.0
HomePNA 2.0 may lack the hype of its wireless 802.11b brethren, but it offers more bandwidth at a lower cost with a guaranteed upgrade path. Today we take an...
0 by Eric Hagen on 12/20/2001Cutting all Cables: Phoneline vs. Wireless Networking
Running CAT5 cabling all over the house is not an option, so what do you do? Wireless is the cleanest route to go but what kind of performance...
0 by Eric Hagen on 10/30/2001Windows XP: AnandTech Readers Speak-Out
With the release of Microsoft's new OS Windows XP, people are bound to have opinions. We asked you our readers, what your thoughts were on the latest from...
0 by Eric Hagen on 10/29/2001What's Holding Linux Back?
Our own Paul Sullivan examines the question "what is holding Linux back" in his latest editorial.
0 by Paul Sullivan on 10/25/2001The Power of Peer to Peer
Find out how the Peer to Peer revolution can save your company thousands without reducing productivity.
0 by Paul Sullivan on 10/2/2001Microsoft: An Interesting Case Study
Our own Paul Sullivan takes an editorial look at the good and the bad of the most powerful company the industry has ever seen: Microsoft.
0 by Paul Sullivan on 9/25/2001The State of Corporate IT: A case for Linux
With the recent economic downturn corporations are looking for ways to reduce spending. Our own Paul Sullivan takes a look at one approach using the almighty penguin.
0 by Paul Sullivan on 8/31/2001Behind AnandTech - APPRO's 1124 760MP Server: The Perfect Server?
We're at it again, we've upgraded yet another one of our servers. This time around, we seem to have struck gold. Find out how the transition to...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/7/2001The XP Transition - Revisiting with RC1
With Windows XP RC1 and two additional test platforms, we took another look at the XP Transition.
0 by Randall Kennedy on 7/25/2001The XP Transition – Feel the Pain
Our first IT/Enterprise Computing article focuses on an examination of cross-generational OS and application performance as it applies to enterprise windows computing. In other words, how much in...
0 by Randall Kennedy on 7/10/2001Welcome to the IT Computing Section at AnandTech
What's this new section all about? Your host, Randall Kennedy, would be more than happy to give you a quick introduction.
0 by Randall Kennedy on 7/10/2001Behind AnandTech - 2001 Server Upgrade
Hardware load-balancing, Linux, and DDR SDRAM. What do those three things have in common? They are all behind the latest upgrade to the AnandTech Server Farm. ...
0 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/17/2001