Next Year will be extrem exiting with all this new CPU’s. Also because AMD don’t support 8 Sockets anymore with the Maranello Platform and in the First time Intel do 😉 I really look forward to do some testing with this stuff.
In January I try to get the Roadmaps for Intel Nehalem and AMD Istanbul. I only want to find out if this to Architecutre are support with RHEL4 until 2010. Because my draft for a Major Release schedule skip RHEL5 and go direct to RHEL6, but RHEL6 is earliest ready ende of 2010 so we …
The HyperTransport 3.1 could boost the AMD CPU’s. In our Server Tests ( with the 32 Core Servers HP DL785 G5 and SUN x4600 M2 ) we find out that for the In Memory Performance a really fast HyperTransport is essential! When you have more than two sockets the Intercommunication between the CPU’s will be …
For the First time I saw the Brandnew AMD QuadCore with B3 stepping in a 8 Socket Server. SUN deliverd us one Server with 32 Core’s and 64 GB Memory for Performance Testing and he run very well. Load was smooth balanced over all 32 Core ( as normal with AMD ) also Performance was …
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We are waiting longtime for this Server, now it’s announced –> HP DL785 G5 with max. 32 Cores max 256GB Memory We have order a TestUnit and hope that they arrive soon, for testing. So we can test the new AMD Barcelona Quadcores. HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server – The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 is …