AMD released six-core Opteron HE processors today that promise to up the performance per watt ante. Currently shipping in 2-,4- and 8-processor HP ProLiant servers, the new Istanbul chips boast an nice percent performance per watt boost over their…
Read more AMD Opteron HE: Istanbul Targets Energy Efficiency
by Pedro Hernandez on July 13, 2009
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The Hidden Challenges of Virtualization – Part 2 – Virtualization.info Make sure there is a standard and consistent model for how these metrics are obtained. For example, if metrics are captured 7 days a week and 24 hours a…
Read more Green IT News Roundup – Wednesday, June 3
by Pedro Hernandez on June 3, 2009
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Reviewers are starting to get their mitts on AMD’s six-core “Istanbul” server chip and the news looks good from a virtualization standpoint. Anandtech found that while slower than some Intel Xeons, the platform’s affinity to virtualization, power savings and cost…
Read more AMD Opteron 2435 – Six Cores Made for Virtualization
by Pedro Hernandez on June 1, 2009
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Today’s new quad-core Opteron EE is just the start… It’s Opteron’s sixth birthday, and the chip wars just got interesting again. Sure, the company just launched a power-sipping, quad-core Shanghai chip (more on that later) but the latest salvo was…
Read more AMD Istanbul: 6-Core Roadmap to Greener Datacenters
by Pedro Hernandez on April 22, 2009
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