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By Dave Peterson, group manager, Industry Standard Servers Product Marketing HP’s recently introduced ProLiant SL “skinless” server line snags top spot in performance per watt benchmark Earlier this year at the 2009 World Championships Jamaican runner Usain Bolt sprinted into history...
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What is headless testing? It is any testing that does not have a GUI. We are all used to creating a performance script from recording a business process . This is accomplished by having a GUI for the business process that can be recorded. But do you always have a GUI to record? No, but many performance...
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When is a user story considered done in agile projects? Depending on whom in the project I ask this question, the response to this question will be different. A developer might consider a story done when it has been unit tested and its defects have been addressed. A QA person might consider a story done...
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Last week at IDF , two Intel technologists spoke about different fixes to the problem of compute capacity outpacing the typical server's ability to handle it. For the past 5 years, x86 CPU makers have boosted performance by adding more cores within the processor. That's enabled servers with ever...
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Performance management is an integral part of every software development project. When I think of agile projects, I think about collaboration, time to market, flexibility, etc. But to me the most important aspect of agile processes is its promise of delivering a “ potentially shippable product...
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For some of financial and data-acquisition applications, it's more important to finish one calculation super-fast than a bunch of calculations slightly slower. There's a group of HPC apps with a similar requirement: two identical instructions need to have precisely the same latency, every time...
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Current economic, environmental and energy constraints often do not make it possible to add additional servers in the data center to align with the demands of the business. As a result, companies are looking to consolidate workloads on fewer servers to reclaim the underutilized capacity, lower the total...
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anand.akela@hp.com
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08-30-2009
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Filed under: datacenter, VMWare, virtualization, x86, AMD, performance, Istanbul, HP ProLiant G6 servers, power savings, energy efficiency, VMworld, DL785 G6, DL785
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Need to estimate power consumption and proper selection of components? Check out the HP Power Advisor . Other features are also provided including a condensed bill of materials, a cost of owner ship calculator, and a power report. Reduce power consumption with ProLiant right-size power supplies. In HP’s...
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Interconnect is an integral part of any scale-out solutions. The question often asked is something like "which interconnect should I use for my next scale-out project?" Well, a simple answer is "it depends". For many applications in the high performance computing (HPC) area, their...
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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 suggestion to populate DIMMs in groups of...
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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 the highlights really show how far high performance...
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The HP POD (Performance Optimized Datacenter) is stealing the show at the HP Tech Forum 2009. The POD is set up and you can tour the POD, talk to the experts and also see the power house running the POD. Kevin Egan & Steve Cumings from HP are informative, graciously answering all questions and helping...
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Kristie Popp
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06-17-2009
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Filed under: cooling, servers, datacenter, HP POD, pod, ProLiant, evergy efficiency, performance, iLO, server, power savings, energy efficiency, HPTF, Tech Forum, Tech Form event and expo, HP Tech Forum
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By John Gromala, director, product marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP Today, HP introduced our first addition to the HP ProLiant line since the 2001 introduction of blade servers with the new extreme scale ProLiant SL-family. This addition marks a very important inflection point in the industry...
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While a lot of systems do in fact run some sort of automated monitoring tools such as sar, ganglia, cacti and others, I'm always surprised to hear that the monitoring intervals being used are on the order of 5-10 minutes long. The positive note is that in a relatively small number of data samples...
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In blackjack, if you have a great hand versus the house, you can double your bet or “double down” to show the confidence that you have in winning it all. HP’s commitment to our new Six-Core AMD Opteron™ processor is a clear signal that our technology partnership is strong, and...
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s_mathur
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06-03-2009
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Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement