By Lorre Bumgardner, Product Manager - HP Platforms/Partner management Monday, April 27th marked a significant milestone in our 20+ year relationship with Microsoft. We are very excited about the news -- we launched the Insight Control suite for Microsoft System Center (ICE-SC) at Microsoft Management...
This is an exciting time for our partner, AMD, as they launch their newest family of processors, and HP is pleased that our ProLiant portfolio will offer new capabilities computing to customers of all sizes. The new "Shanghai" products (Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2300 processors) will help HP customers...
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...
It's exciting to realize that HP ProLiant is about to turn 15 years old. At the same time, it makes me feel old when I think back to my days as a product manager at Compaq, responsible for the launch of the product family. That was a few gray hairs ago, let me tell you! Fifteen years and over 15...