Jun25

In the eye of the beholder

Any way you want to look at it, the ATI Radeon™ HD 4850 looks pretty sweet. Or to put it as Scott Wasson did on The Tech Report.com, “The Radeon HD 4850 kicks more ass than a pair of donkeys in an MMA cage match.” So why does it kick so much yo ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-25-08 | 2 Comments | 0 Links to this post

Jun12

Virtually there

In my last blog I talked about some benchmarks.  Today I was in another discussion surrounding benchmarks; this time concerning virtualization. The discussion centered around what you measure that’s actually useful to the people who make decisio ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-12-08 | 1 Comment | 0 Links to this post

Jun05

Does size matter?

If my math is right, we now have at least 33 Quad-Core AMD Opteron™-based (aka “Barcelona”) servers systems announced and more will be coming in the next few months. To name a few, HP and Sun each offer eight, Dell offers seven, IBM offers three ...[Read More]
Published: Jun-05-08 | 0 Comments | 0 Links to this post