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AMD Best Practices Series: Understanding the Bigger Picture of VMmark Benchmarks
(also read this post at VMblog.com here) At AMD, we constantly hear from customers about different issues they are grappling with. It’s not to say that all customers face the same issues, but we certainly see a few common themes … Continue reading
Simply Spectacular Virtualization – The March Madness Edition Featuring Citrix XenServer with AMD technology-based HP ProLiant Blades
March madness is in full swing bringing heartaches and triumphs as college basketball teams compete in playoff tournaments. The x86 server world is having its own version of March Madness right now with some stiff competition between AMD and Intel … Continue reading
Building a Power Efficient HPC System
When you think of HPC clusters, do you think of power efficiency? Most people don’t, but there is a strong case to be made for power efficiency in the HPC world. One of the biggest challenges that high performance computing … Continue reading
Energy Efficiency Globally Must Start Locally
New York State is currently facing some difficult challenges including rising energy prices, an aging electricity delivery infrastructure, an imbalanced electricity generation portfolio and climate change. According to a 2007 EPA study conducted by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and sponsored … Continue reading
Master of My Domain
Recently I blogged about AMD OpteronTM processors in the world’s largest supercomputers. But what about the other end of the spectrum? Like many of you, I have a second job as the network administrator for a small network – at … Continue reading
Serving Up a Big Dose of Virtualization with Windows Server 2008 R2
This has been a big week for the Windows Operating System. Along with the much awaited “Release to Manufacturing” (RTM) of Windows 7, we also saw the RTM of Windows Server 2008 R2. Many of the improvements in Windows Server … Continue reading
That Five-letter Dirty Word
Value. There, I said it. Someone once threatened to wash my PowerPoint slides out with soap for using it. But customers care about it. Today, more than ever; but even in the crazy dot-com 90′s, people still gravitated to value. … Continue reading
A Million Reasons Why
In the past, when you talked about the million IOPS performance level, you were always talking about mainframe-class systems. Today, we are talking about industry-standard x86 servers. Continue reading
Don’t Be Fooled (Again)
As April Fools’ Day approaches, I remember Pavlov’s dog and just how conditioned we all can be – particularly in terms of technology. Swap the “n” and “m” keys on someone’s keyboard or change the language setting on your friend’s … Continue reading
