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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Reality Check: Server Insights
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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
By John Schmitz On March 30, we announced our new G6 line of HP ProLiant servers - built for performance and reliability. These servers, which run the HP Insight Control suite, are the industry's best managed x86 servers. HP Insight Control suite, popularly known as "ICE," provides essential...
By Nick Vanderzweep Director of Product Management, HP Insight Software OK, we just announced our new HP ProLiant G6 servers and I was told they use a lot less power, are a much better virtualization platform, and let you spend less money without sacrificing service levels for your customers. These topics...
Given that it is important to measure power usage and correlate it to application performance, how do you measure the power? We use 2 different methods - one for rack-mounted servers and another for blade servers. The rack-mounted servers do not provide power meters, so we bought a power meter. We plug...
Until a couple of years ago, when we referred to performance measurement of an application, we meant the amount of time that it took the job to run vs. the specific resources it used - number of cores, number of servers if you are using a cluster, the specific characteristics of the server cores and...