Making Sense of the Intel Haswell Transactional Synchronization eXtensions
Intel has released additional information regarding the Transactional Synchronization technology (TSX) inside their upcoming Haswell processor; it's basically an instruction set architecture (ISA) extension to make hardware accelerated transactional...
29 by on 9/20/2012
Intel's Xeon Phi in 10 Petaflops supercomputer
Intel announced the Xeon Phi ("Knights Corner") a few months ago and bought the Qlogic infiniband team and Cray fabric team to bolster its HPC efforts. A clear signal...
15 by on 9/11/2012
AMD Introduces SeaMicro SM15000 with Piledriver and Ivy Bridge Compute Cards
In its first major announcement since the acquisition by AMD, SeaMicro unveiled its SM15000 server. This is an updated version of the standard 10U SeaMicro chassis with 64 compute...
9 by on 9/10/2012
LRDIMMs, RDIMMs, and Supermicro's Latest Twin
Most of the servers in the datacenter, especially the ones running virtualization, database, and some HPC applications, are more memory limited than anything else. There are several server memory...
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The Bulldozer Aftermath: Delving Even Deeper
It has been months since AMD's Bulldozer architecture surprised the hardware enthusiast community with performance all over the place. The opinions vary wildly from “server benchmarks are here, and...
84 by on 5/30/2012
The Xeon E5-2600: Dual Sandy Bridge for Servers
Eight improved cores, 16 threads, integrated 40 lane PCIe 3.0: the new socket 2011 Xeon E5-2660 manages to package it all in a very modest power envelope of 95W...
81 by on 3/6/2012
Virtualized or Not? We've Got Numbers
We have had epic discussions with quite a few readers about the importance of virtualization in our reviews. In our six-core Opteron review we wrote: "Let there be no misunderstanding...
35 by on 2/15/2012
The Opteron 6276: a closer look
When we first looked at the Opteron 6276, our time was limited and we were only able to run our virtualization, compression, encryption, and rendering benchmarks. Most servers capable...
52 by on 2/9/2012
Quick update: more Interlagos testing
As promised in our last Opteron "Interlagos" review, we have been taking the time to deepen our understanding of AMD's newest Interlagos server platform and the "Bulldozer" architecture. Server...
30 by on 12/8/2011
Bulldozer for Servers: Testing AMD's "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 Series
Last month, AMD launched their Bulldozer architecture on desktops, and the result was rather underwhelming; however, there are plenty of indications that Bulldozer simply wasn't architected to excel at...
113 by on 11/15/2011
Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested
Facebook had 22 Million active users in the middle of 2007; fast forward to 2011 and the site now has 800 Million active users, with 400 million of them...
68 by on 11/3/2011
Rendering and HPC Benchmark Session Using Our Best Servers
Each time we publish a new server platform review, several of our readers inquire about HPC and rendering benchmarks. We're always willing to accommodate reasonable requests, so we're going...
52 by on 9/30/2011
Hybrid Cloud Computing gets real
Public Cloud Computing services are growing fast despite the fact that a lot of people do not fully trust them. Just look at the number of launched Amazon EC2...
24 by on 9/18/2011
Ask the Experts, Enterprise & Cloud Computing: Answers part 2
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
8 by on 7/29/2011
Ask the Experts: Enterprise & Cloud Computing Questions Answered, Part 1
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
14 by on 7/28/2011
Details on AMD Bulldozer: Opterons to Feature Configurable TDP
AMD’s new Bulldozer-based CPUs are just around the corner. AMD has said the release of Zambezi CPUs will happen in Q3, which means any time from now. The latest...
62 by on 7/15/2011
Infrastructure as a Service: Benchmarking Cloud Computing
Many feel that cloud computing is just old wine in new bottles, but Infrastructure as a Service, the foundation of cloud computing, is a very interesting evolution of the...
29 by on 6/2/2011
Westmere-EX: Intel's Flagship Benchmarked
A month ago, Intel introduced its newest quad Xeon E7 series, the successor of the Xeon 7500. We gave you an overview of the Xeon's E7 lineup, but we...
62 by on 5/19/2011
Westmere-EX: Intel Improves their Xeon Flagship
Yesterday, Intel announced that their flagship server processor, the Xeon Nehalem-EX, is being succeeded by the Xeon Westmere-EX, a process-shrinking " tick" in Intel's terminology. By shrinking Intel's largest...
33 by on 4/6/2011
Ask the experts: Cloud Computing Questions Answered
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
40 by on 3/28/2011
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