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...
Low Power Server CPU Shoot-out
We take a look at two nearly identical systems and compare the low power server processor offerings from AMD and Intel.
27 by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 7/17/2007Supermicro's Twin: Two nodes and 16 cores in 1U
Low electricity bills, very high processing power, and all at an attractive price - the newest Supermicro server promises a lot. Find out if the promises also materialize as...
28 by Johan De Gelas on 5/28/2007Intel Clovertown: Quad Core for the Masses
Intel shows what a non-native quad core product can deliver, beating rival AMD's quad core solution to market.
56 by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 3/30/2007Promise VTrak J300s
We take a look at a 12 drive SAS chassis from Promise and compare SAS, SATA and SCSI while taking a stroll down memory lane.
31 by Jason Clark & Dave Muysson on 2/2/2007Quad Core Intel Xeon 53xx Clovertown
With four cores in one package, the new Xeon 53xx might be able to offer the performance of a quad socket server in a much cheaper dual socket machine...
15 by Johan De Gelas on 12/27/2006AMD Socket-F Opteron vs. Intel Woodcrest
We take a look at two nearly identical systems, with the chief difference being the CPUs used: one uses AMD Socket-F Opteron and the other Intel Woodcrest.
38 by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 12/18/2006SMB NAS Roundup
We take a look at a handful of the popular SMB NAS devices on the market.
23 by Ross Whitehead Jason Clark Dave Muysson on 12/5/2006Intel's newest Quad Xeon MP versus HP's DL585 Quad Opteron
We confront Intel newest server based on the Xeon MP 7130M with the HP DL585, the popular and well-regarded ProLiant Quad Opteron server that gave HP a major edge...
33 by Johan De Gelas on 11/10/2006Server Guide part 2: Affordable and Manageable Storage
Our server guides' goal is to give a you a comprehensive overview of server technology. In this second part we introduce you to server storage technology and what you...
21 by Johan De Gelas on 10/18/2006Server Guide Part 1: Introduction to the Server World
The Server Guides' goal is to give a you a comprehensive overview of server technology. In this first part we introduce you to TCO and the different server chassis...
31 by Johan De Gelas on 8/17/2006Intel Woodcrest: the Birth of a New King
Intel is back, and they seem to be here to stay. Woodcrest is shipping and Clovertown is on the horizon.
59 by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 7/13/2006Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out
Intel's newest Woodcrest arrived a few weeks ago in our server lab. We compare Intel's newest Xeon 5160 with AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1. SSL, PHP, Apache and...
91 by Johan De Gelas on 6/7/2006Eight Core Servers: Opteron 880 (Egypt) vs. Xeon MP 3.0 GHz (Paxville)
We take a look at the Quad Dual-Core Enterprise platforms, comparing Intel's Paxville (Xeon MP) 3.0GHz with AMD's Opteron 880 in a series of 64-bit database tests.
35 by Jason Clark on 4/24/2006NVIDIA Business Platform: A competitive desktop alternative to Intel?
NVIDIA is launching a comprehensive stable image platform solution for the IT sector designed around the AMD Athlon 64 processor series.
14 by Gary Key on 3/30/2006Sun’s T2000 “Coolthreads” Server: First Impressions and Experiences
Sun's "Coolthreads" T2000 server is an ambitious and innovative product that may provide a solid and attractive alternative to the flood of x86 based servers. So far, there have...
26 by Johan De Gelas on 3/24/2006Inside Newegg: They give us a Tour and you a Prize
For the first time in Newegg's history we were allowed to present the public with a tour of one of their facilities. And they even let us give...
122 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/14/2006Intel’s Dual-Core Xeon First Look
More processing power has long been the focus of the processor giants, but times are changing. Performance per Watt is the focus for both AMD & Intel for the...
67 by Jason Clark & Ross Whitehead on 12/16/2005Sun introduces T1000/T2000
Sun introduces T1000 and T2000 UltraSPARC T1 based servers with CoolThreads technology with an aim to cut up to 60% of customer operating costs.
13 by Tuan Nguyen on 12/6/2005AnandTech Search goes Google
Take an in-depth look at the Google Mini, and how we integrated it into AnandTech.com.
48 by Jason Clark on 9/5/2005Linux Database Server CPU Comparison
We compared different Xeon and Opteron platforms on Database servers on SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, Kernel 2.6. How well do the Xeon and Opteron perform on the newest kernel...
45 by Johan De Gelas on 6/17/2005