Balancing Power, Price, and Performance in the Server CPU World
by Johan De Gelas on March 3, 2011 7:07 PM EST- Posted in
- IT Computing
- AMD
- Intel
- 1000W
- Xeon
- Opteron
- Cloud Computing
Server Benchmark Configurations
We used two relatively basic servers, both made to be affordable and low power. The Intel server comes recommended by Intel, and the Opteron based server is similarly recommended by AMD.
The intel server is an Intel SR1690WB 1U server:
| CPU |
2x Xeon E5506 2.13GHz or 2x Xeon L5630 2.13GHz |
| RAM | 8x4GB (32GB) Samsung DDR3-1333 CH9 |
| Motherboard | Intel S5500WBV |
| Chipset | Intel 5500 |
| BIOS version | S5500.86B.01.00.0054,092820101104 |
| PSU | Delta Electronics DPS-650SB B Rev |
The AMD server was also a 1U server, the Tyan YR190B8228, a 1U "Twin" server. The twin server consists of a 1U chassis containing two completely separate servers.
| CPU |
2x Opteron 4162 EE 1.7GHz 2x Opteron 4122 2.2GHz or 2x Opteron 4170 HE |
| RAM | 8x4GB (32GB) Samsung DDR3-1333 CH9 |
| Motherboard | Tyan B8228Y190X2-045V4H |
| Chipset | AMD SR5650 |
| BIOS version | YR190-B8228-x2_v101 |
| PSU | 3Y Power Technology YM-2451C RevA 450W |
The disk system was identical for each server. We equipped each with a Western Digital 64GB SSD SSC-D0064SC-2100 as the boot disk with an Adaptec 5085 PCI-E 8x SAS controller connected to a Promise Vtrak J300s. We placed the VMs on six SAS disks (Fujitsu MAX3073RC) in RAID-0. The Oracle OLTP databases are on two Intel SLC X25-E SSDs.
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pvdw - Thursday, March 10, 2011 - link
Don't worry duploxxx, no company in their right mind would hire him. And those who do, deserve what they get for just hiring a zealot with little to no expertise.pvdw - Thursday, March 10, 2011 - link
He's just a mindless troll, let's ignore him.theangryintern - Friday, March 11, 2011 - link
This is a bit OT, did I miss the full article about AnandTech's server upgrade, or has the story not been posted yet? I remember we got a couple preview articles, and now nothing for several months. I was really interested in seeing the full story of the upgrades.gujiong2002 - Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - link
Typo?meorah - Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - link
Its too bad the benchmarks didn't include comparisons to a mainstream processor like the E5620. That way we could get a sense of scale between all the low power processor performance/power usage levels.In other words, if the E5620 is only slightly worse than the low power processors, it makes the scale smaller so the differences between the low power processors are more pronounced, similar to the charts in the article.
However, if the E5620 is much worse than the low power procs, it makes the chart scale much higher and suddenly the relative difference between the low power procs seems almost insignificant.
I understand the concept of max density and therefore max performance/watt for datacenters, but there are plenty of small businesses with 1-4 racks in a corporate site computer closet running back-office systems who are also interested in balancing TCO on a smaller scale, and including a mainstream proc in your charts would help them (me). :)