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...
After the operating system boots on a new server model, it's time to start performance testing. I'm hoping to get some comments on this, since there are many different ways to proceed. Personally, I am not a fan of industry standard benchmarks, but I think they are the best starting point for...
About this blog series - This is the 1 st posting of a series which describes the experiences of engineers who test the performance of HPC servers and server clusters at HP. My name is Dave Field. I lead an engineering group at HP - we measure the performance of new HP servers. In addition to the common...