Balancing Power, Price, and Performance in the Server CPU World
by Johan De Gelas on March 3, 2011 7:07 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
- AMD
- Intel
- 1000W
- Xeon
- Opteron
- Cloud Computing
Server Benchmark Configurations
We used two relatively basic servers, both made to be affordable and low power. The Intel server comes recommended by Intel, and the Opteron based server is similarly recommended by AMD.
The intel server is an Intel SR1690WB 1U server:
| CPU |
2x Xeon E5506 2.13GHz or 2x Xeon L5630 2.13GHz |
| RAM | 8x4GB (32GB) Samsung DDR3-1333 CH9 |
| Motherboard | Intel S5500WBV |
| Chipset | Intel 5500 |
| BIOS version | S5500.86B.01.00.0054,092820101104 |
| PSU | Delta Electronics DPS-650SB B Rev |
The AMD server was also a 1U server, the Tyan YR190B8228, a 1U "Twin" server. The twin server consists of a 1U chassis containing two completely separate servers.
| CPU |
2x Opteron 4162 EE 1.7GHz 2x Opteron 4122 2.2GHz or 2x Opteron 4170 HE |
| RAM | 8x4GB (32GB) Samsung DDR3-1333 CH9 |
| Motherboard | Tyan B8228Y190X2-045V4H |
| Chipset | AMD SR5650 |
| BIOS version | YR190-B8228-x2_v101 |
| PSU | 3Y Power Technology YM-2451C RevA 450W |
The disk system was identical for each server. We equipped each with a Western Digital 64GB SSD SSC-D0064SC-2100 as the boot disk with an Adaptec 5085 PCI-E 8x SAS controller connected to a Promise Vtrak J300s. We placed the VMs on six SAS disks (Fujitsu MAX3073RC) in RAID-0. The Oracle OLTP databases are on two Intel SLC X25-E SSDs.
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Zoomer - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
Sure, obviously McAfee can magically make chips designed and produced before the acquisition more secure.duploxxx - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
SAP:http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/customers/directories...
oracle:
Is turning all heads up side down, once they notice the volume shrink of x86 they will also drop it
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/analystreports/...
HangFire - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
"...very inexpensive server, with a barebone price of only ~$1500 for two servers."Did you mean "sockets"?
Penti - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
He means two servers. Or rather two nodes if you like. 2 pieces 2-way server.bobbozzo - Monday, March 7, 2011 - link
That server has 2 dual-socket motherboards in 1U; it's 2 servers in one, each with 2 CPU sockets.ERJ - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
Home electric pricing is very different than rack pricing. Consider, for a good datacenter, you need UPS and power generators capable of matching every watt in use. You need pdu's. You have extra heat generation so you need additional cooling.For our colo space we pay somewhere in the range of $500 a month for a 30amp 120v circuit. Getting the best performance per watt is definitely part of our criteria.
Stuka87 - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
I gotta thank you for the laugh. Never have I thought the word "craps" would make me laugh so much. I think it may be that you seem to use that word in every single post combined with one of the most narrow minded points of views I have seen on this site.All our craps are belong to you.
silverblue - Friday, March 4, 2011 - link
AMD must be good at the casino, what with all these "craps".I've long since filed sans2212 in the same category as SiliconDoc, under "has nothing to bring to the discussion whatsoever aside of (an initial period of) light entertainment for all readers (which rapidly becomes tedious)".
VJ - Saturday, March 5, 2011 - link
"You can get a slightly faster 1.8GHz version, the 4164 EE, but that chip costs more than twice as much ($698). As we are searching for low power and inexpensive CPUs, it didn't make the cut. The only disadvantage other than the lower clock speed is the lower clocked HT3 link at 2GT/s instead of 6.4GT/s."It's a bit of a weird paragraph since I was first thinking that you were suggesting the 4164 EE does 6.4GT/s but (for your sake) I can also interpret "instead of" in the final sentence to refer to the other AMD cpus you're testing here.
But it's still a deficient paragraph considering "the lower clocked HT3", since in reality, this resolves to an HT1 (for the 4162 EE).
It's like a car test mentioning a "less powerful V8 engine" when they're referring to a V6.
Gaat lekker, he?
oneoho - Tuesday, March 8, 2011 - link
great article, I was about to build some low power consumption / cooling requirement servers. This will help immensely.