This is an interesting turn of events. Lately, startups like Calxeda and SeaMicro have been making waves by enticing data center operators with the promise of potent yet power-sipping servers using low-watt processors that are decidedly non-standard on servers. Namely, ARM- and Intel Atom-based chips, respectively. Now it turns out that SeaMicro sees some value, or at least [...]
Intel Xeon
Oh, the irony! Intel’s supercomputer, called the Encanto and ranking number 32 on the Green500 list, was called into service to forecast the spread of oil from the Gulf of Mexico. Consisting of 3,500 quad-core Xeon processors, the 28-cabinet, water-cooled system helped the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) predict the spread of undersea oil [...]
Read more Oil spill’s spread simulated on Intel’s green supercomputer
AMD and Intel are locked in a battle for datacenter and these days that means pumping out processors that make easy work of workloads in an enery efficient manner. Anandtech takes a look at how the chipmakers fare in…
DailyTech took a look at the marketing war of words between Intel and AMD in the server chip realm, specifically when it comes to the former’s Nehalem Xeon and the latter’s Shanghai Opteron. We all love a good fight, but…
Read more Intel Nehalem vs. AMD Shanghai… Fight!
