AMD and Intel I/O Virtualization
Virtualization now reaches an I/O barrier where consolidated applications must vie for increasingly more limited I/O resources. Early virtualization techniques – both software and hardware assisted –...
View ArticleQuick Take: VMware – Shanghai vs. Nehalem-EP
Johan De Gelas at AnandTech has an interesting article comparing a 2P Shanghai (2384, 2.7GHz) vs. 2P Nehalem-EP (X5570, 2.93GHz) and the comparison in VMark is stunning… until you do you do your...
View ArticleShanghai Economics 101 – Continued
The economics of consolidation systems does not appear to favor 4P systems with the exception of some very special cases where access to multiple-threads and multi-gigabytes of memory are needed by the...
View ArticleThe Cost of Benchmarks
We’ve been challenged to backup our comparison of Nehalem-EP systems to Opteron Shanghai in price performance based on prevailing VMmark scores available on VMware’s site. In earlier posts, our...
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