Next week I will join the Red Hat Summit in Boston. I hope to get a lot of Information and get new Trends and Technology’s. Last week I also realize that the Product Manager for the Red Hat Cluster Suite leave Red Hat, maybe I can find out at the Summit what’s going on there.
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 also order a TestServer from IBM, the x3950 M2 with 64 Core and 128 GB Memory, this Server should have arround 70000 SAPS. this is only 1 Node with 4 Sockets, now connect 4 Node –> 16 Socket with Intel Tigerton QuadCores over the IBM x4 Architecture and you have the biggest x86_64 Server …
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 …
On the Inquirer there is a Articel about a new x86_64 8 Socket Server from HP: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/22/hp-readies-eight-cpu-opteron I think we will test it as soon it is available, hope it has better performance than the x4600 from SUN.