AMD's Quad-Core Barcelona: Defending New Territory
Today AMD's third generation Opterons launches - only at 2GHz, but packed with many clever tricks to improve the IPC and with a surprise update coming in the near...
46 by on 9/10/2007AMD's Opteron hits 3.2GHz
AMD launches four new Opterons, two at 3GHz and two at 3.2GHz. How do they perform compared to the Intel alternatives? What about performance per watt? Well find out...
30 by on 8/6/2007Killing the Business Desktop PC Softly
It's 2007, and a serious attempt on the life of the PC is in the works. Shockingly, the murder is planned by nobody less than the "parents" of the...
39 by on 7/19/2007Supermicro's Twin: Two nodes and 16 cores in 1U
Low electricity bills, very high processing power, and all at an attractive price - the newest Supermicro server promises a lot. Find out if the promises also materialize as...
28 by on 5/28/2007CeBIT 2007: Storage & Servers
Our trip to CeBIT 2007 in Hannover garnered some interesting news on how well AMD's K10 chip will fare against Intel's newest Xeons. We also hear about how Supermicro...
14 by on 3/29/2007Intel: More Details on Penryn and Nehalem
Today we met with Intel and were given some additional juicy details of what is in store for CPUs due for release during the next year. Think QX6700...
14 by on 3/28/2007Quad Core Intel Xeon 53xx Clovertown
With four cores in one package, the new Xeon 53xx might be able to offer the performance of a quad socket server in a much cheaper dual socket machine...
15 by on 12/27/2006Intel's newest Quad Xeon MP versus HP's DL585 Quad Opteron
We confront Intel newest server based on the Xeon MP 7130M with the HP DL585, the popular and well-regarded ProLiant Quad Opteron server that gave HP a major edge...
88 by on 11/10/2006Server Guide part 2: Affordable and Manageable Storage
Our server guides' goal is to give a you a comprehensive overview of server technology. In this second part we introduce you to server storage technology and what you...
22 by on 10/18/2006Server Guide Part 1: Introduction to the Server World
The Server Guides' goal is to give a you a comprehensive overview of server technology. In this first part we introduce you to TCO and the different server chassis...
32 by on 8/17/2006Intel Woodcrest, AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1: Server CPU Shoot-out
Intel's newest Woodcrest arrived a few weeks ago in our server lab. We compare Intel's newest Xeon 5160 with AMD's Opteron and Sun's UltraSparc T1. SSL, PHP, Apache and...
91 by on 6/7/2006Intel Core versus AMD's K8 architecture
How does the Athlon 64 architecture, known as "Hammer" or "K8", compare with the newly announced Intel Core architecture? Does AMD have a chance to compete with the latest...
87 by on 5/1/2006Sun’s T2000 “Coolthreads” Server: First Impressions and Experiences
Sun's "Coolthreads" T2000 server is an ambitious and innovative product that may provide a solid and attractive alternative to the flood of x86 based servers. So far, there have...
26 by on 3/24/2006Cebit 2006: High end Motherboards and Server News
Read on to learn what we discovered while at Cebit 2006 in Hannover.
19 by on 3/13/2006SUN’s UltraSparc T1 - the Next Generation Server CPUs
SUN's Ultrasparc T1, formerly known as Niagara, is much more than just a new UltraSparc. It is the harbinger of a new generation of CPUs, which focus almost solely...
49 by on 12/29/2005Itanium - is there light at the end of the tunnel?
Despite its rather dull reputation of being a big iron CPU, and the flood of negative predictions, the EPIC CPU family has something fascinating. From a purely technical ...
43 by on 11/9/2005No More Apple Mysteries, Part Two
What happens if we install Linux on both Apple’s G5 platform and the x86 platform? Can Linux solve the server performance problems that we had discovered in our...
48 by on 9/1/2005Linux Database Server CPU Comparison
We compared different Xeon and Opteron platforms on Database servers on SUSE Enterprise Linux 9, Kernel 2.6. How well do the Xeon and Opteron perform on the newest kernel...
45 by on 6/17/2005No more mysteries: Apple's G5 versus x86, Mac OS X versus Linux
How does Apple's G5/Mac OS X platform compare to x86/Linux/Windows? We find out with nothing else, but cold hard numbers as we test the Apple Power Mac Dual...
116 by on 6/3/2005The Quest for More Processing Power, Part Three: "Multi core of Intel and AMD compared"
How do the current dual cores of Intel and AMD compare? What are the architectural differences of the current cores? Can we quantify these differences? What will be the...
28 by on 5/18/2005
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