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 consumption and the reason why goes right down...
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
by
s_mathur
on 06-03-2009
Filed under: power, cloud computing, datacenter, x86, BladeSystem, ProLiant, AMD, performance, G6, scale-out servers, measurement
I'm sitting here thinking about writing my first Blog post and trying to come up with something to say. So I figured I'd start by trying to answer one of my least favourite questions (and before you all start to correct my spelling I'm not originally from the USA) and explain why it's...
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...
These days, server power efficiency is top of mind for everyone. Five years ago, most customers had no idea how much power a server used. Now, everyone knows - it's a lot. In some cases, customers are making power consumption the primary criteria for vendor selection. So why is it so dang hard to...
I didn't know what I would eat for breakfast today, so thanks to Larry Dignan for the V8 slap up against the head this morning. After watching his video blog, "green servers and ham" doesn't sound so good anymore. We know a lot of businesses wrestle with mandates to be "green"...