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Rising to the Top
Interesting statistics that show the strength of the AMD Opteron™ processor for high performance computing (HPC). Continue reading
Server Benchmark Decoder
I’ll present you with a scenario: You’re in the market for a new server and want to know what will provide you with the best balance of price, performance and power efficiency for your given workload. That seems sensible. But, … Continue reading
SPECvirt_sc2010: Does this make VMmark Obsolete?
Try as we have, performance benchmarking of any system is still something of an imperfect science. There is no one “right” methodology for benchmarking – for example, should a methodology test what the system is truly capable of under “perfect” … Continue reading
AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series Platform: Higher Performance AND Lower Power Consumption
I was recently thinking about the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize and how it relates to the AMD Opteron™ 4000 Series platform. The Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize is a global competition to develop a mainstream class automobile with a … Continue reading
Sleepless in Seattle – Launching the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series Platform
One of the launch sites for the AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform was located at the Microsoft Enterprise Engineering Center, in Building 25 on Microsoft campus. From this site David McCann, general manager, Windows Server Marketing at Microsoft, and I … Continue reading
New Benchmarks Using AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series Processors
As my colleague John Fruehe referred to in his most recent blog, the AMD Opteron™ 6100 Series processors have now arrived! In reality, our customers have been evaluating and purchasing these processors under NDA for the last several months, now we … Continue reading
Putting Performance into Perspective – Benchmark Selector Tool for AMD Opteron™ Processor-based Servers
Over the weekend, as I watched my wife’s beloved New Orleans Saints win their first Super Bowl, I reflected back on the decision that the Saints made to hire Sean Payton, Drew Brees, and Reggie Bush in 2006. It struck … Continue reading
Chipping Away the Façade on Compilers and Benchmarks for AMD Processors
If you follow my Virtualization Blog you know about my efforts to chip away facades – false, superficial or artificial appearances – around processor performance. The first week of this new decade saw the façade of the Intel compiler crumble … Continue reading
Chipping off the Façade of Virtualization Performance
Façade – a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect (Merriam-Webster on-line dictionary) The concept of a “façade” has taken on a new meaning for me due to a Christmas Eve adventure at a Port Aransas (Texas) condo. My family … Continue reading
Is a Cloud a Cluster or is a Cluster a Cloud?
With the recent publication of several articles about using cloud computing concepts for High Performance Computing applications (here and here), I’ve been wondering about the applications for high-performance, low-power processors. There’s been quite a bit written here already about cloud … Continue reading
