Shanghai Economics 101 – Continued
The economics of consolidation systems does not appear to favor 4P systems with the exception of some very special cases where access to multiple-threads and multi-gigabytes of memory are needed by the...
View ArticleThe Cost of Benchmarks
We’ve been challenged to backup our comparison of Nehalem-EP systems to Opteron Shanghai in price performance based on prevailing VMmark scores available on VMware’s site. In earlier posts, our...
View ArticleQuick Take: IBM Tops VMmark, Crushes Record with 4P Nehalem-EX
It was merely a matter of time before one of the new core-rich titans – the Intel’s 8-core “Beckton” Nehalem-EX (Xeon 7500) or AMD’s 12-core “Magny-Cours” (Opteron 6100) – was to make a name for itself...
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