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Nehalem and Windows 2003: Why 6 x 1GB = 4GB

On Ed Groden's post in the Intel Server Room , Mario Valetti asks about memory configurations for an Intel Xeon 5500-based server running a 32-bit OS. Ed gives a couple good rules of thumb for what memory to use, including his rule #4, the ultra-important...

Published 07-01-2009 7:21 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: microsoft, DDR3 memory, Intel, performance [Edit Tags]

New review of HP blades small sites

Recently, we shipped a BladeSystem c3000 (or 'Shorty' to those in the know), to Dave Mitchell at the IT Pro for a hands-on review. Inside we added the latest virtualization blades, virtual storage with HP LeftHand and some other new gadgets to...

Published 06-26-2009 11:52 PM by Jason Newton

Filed under: Shorty, c3000, blade servers, SMB, IBM, review, lefthand [Edit Tags]

TOP500 Supercomputer list for June 2009

Since last November, another five spots on this biennial list are taken by systems based on HP server blades. On the latest list , I count 206 of the 500 fastest computer systems in the world -- over 41% -- as being powered by HP BladeSystem. Some of...

Published 06-24-2009 2:53 AM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: top500, supercomputer, blades, performance [Edit Tags]

From #HPTF: The future is coming into focus

And BladeSystem Matrix is your lens. If you want to understand how the the convergence of the racked, stacked and wired world changes the rules of the game, start with Matrix. We've talked a lot about convergence over the last year and how it's...

Published 06-17-2009 8:31 PM by Jason Newton

Filed under: convergence, private cloud, matrix, orchestration [Edit Tags]

From #HPTF: Pondering the HP POD

I found the HP POD to be one of the most compelling demo areas at this weeks' HP Technology Forum. Being able to emerse yourself in the POD and touch and feel what it takes to deploy and support 3000 or more systems is amazing. Every detail has to...

Published 06-17-2009 7:51 PM by Jason Newton

Filed under: data center, HPTF, POD, economics [Edit Tags]

Thoughts on #HPTF keynote

After thinking over Paul Millers' presentation last night, here's what stuck with me. Convergence is the mega-trend It's a bigger idea with bigger implications than consolidation and unification - it's transformational Convergence collapses...

Published 06-16-2009 8:29 PM by Jason Newton

Filed under: virtual infrastructure, convergence, HPTF, private cloud, extreme scale, matrix [Edit Tags]

Circuit Board Rainbow

Recently I demonstrated a prototype blade to an IT admin from a large bank. He'd worked with lots of different HP server models over the years, but a bright red color peeking out from the server blade chassis caught his eye. I popped off the cover...

Published 06-12-2009 8:51 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: blade servers, Just for Fun, engineers [Edit Tags]

Technology Forum 2009

I'll be speaking at Technology Forum along with my partner in crime Richard Brooke. We'll be doing session number 1780 - Powering HP BladeSystem covering all the exciting technologies like rack PDUs, UPSs, power cables, plugs and the other kinds...

Published 06-10-2009 10:47 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: HPTF, Technology Forum 2009 [Edit Tags]

Applications Matter - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 2

How does the application you are using and what it is doing affect the power consumption of system. The first thing that everyone looks at when talking about power consumption is CPU utilization. Unfortunately CPU utilization is not a good proxy for power...

Published 06-10-2009 10:21 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: BladeSystem, power, energy efficiency, green IT, datacenter, power management, myths, Power Supplies, data center [Edit Tags]

Is Power Capping ready For Prime Time

Mike Manos responded to my post about power capping being ready for prime time with a very well thought out and argued post that really looks at this from a datacenter manager's perspective, rather than just my technology focused perspective. I'm...

Published 06-09-2009 4:06 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: power, blade infrastructure, power management, data center 3.0, next generation data center, Power Supplies, Power Capping [Edit Tags]

Is this UCS confusion...or dandruff?

On Wednesday, Soni Jiandani announced an expansion of Cisco’s UCS family , adding rack servers to their hardware roadmap. I’m really scratching my head at this move. Soni says that her goal with these products – 1U and 2U servers each...

Published 06-05-2009 4:04 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: networking, Cisco, strategic vendor, data center, servers [Edit Tags]

Datacenter Power Allocation

I was going to add some more details to Chuck's post on how a blade server powers on, but I got sidetracked by a brilliant post from Mike Manos of Digital Realty on the real basics of what is going with power in your datacenter. What Mike is explaining...

Published 06-03-2009 1:24 AM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: energy efficiency, power management, Dynamic Power Capping, Power Supplies, data center [Edit Tags]

Icosikaitetra-Core Server Blades

Yesterday, AMD launched "Istanbul" , their six-core Opteron processor. Paul G. promised that HP would add this CPU into our servers in very short order. "Very short" was right; today we've announced the BL465c G6 and BL495c G6...

Published 06-02-2009 9:46 PM by Daniel Bowers

Filed under: BladeSystem, blade servers, new product, AMD, Opteron [Edit Tags]

Taking a closer look at the "Power On" capabilities for blade chassis

Some of our Blade Specialists give us the workings of the BladeSystem "Power switch" . David gives us these words of wisdom. "I've always referred to the "power switch" on the front of the blade not as a power switch but a...

Published 06-02-2009 8:55 PM by Kleinch

Filed under: BladeSystem, energy efficiency, power management [Edit Tags]

Configuration Matters - What Affects Server Power Consumption: Part 1

Following on from my first post I'll take a look at the affect hardware configuration will have on the power consumption of the enclosure. To do this I went into the Blade Power Sizer and configured up two equivalent systems. I kept the enclosure...

Published 05-27-2009 4:06 PM by Tony Harvey

Filed under: cooling, power, datacenter, Power Supplies, blades, data center [Edit Tags]

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