September 2009 - Posts

• Big-Iron Revival II, Nehalem-EX and Windows Server 2008 R2

  At Intel Developer Forum 2009 last week, Microsoft disclosed significant advances in Windows Server 2008 R2 with the elimination of many locks, most prominently the Dispatch Scheduler lock, that impact the ability scale performance up to and beyond 64 Read More... Posted Sunday, September 27, 2009 7:39 PM by jchang | 4 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, Scalability

• HP Storage Works 2000 sa and fc G2 performance specs

  While reading through the documentation for the HP Storage Works 2000 MSA, I found the following performance numbers cited in the quickspecs for both the FC and SAS versions. The 2000fc version cited performance numbers for the fc (Fiber Channel), sa Read More... Posted Monday, September 14, 2009 3:38 PM by jchang | 6 Comments Filed under: Performance, Storage

• Benchmark Omissions for the Six-Core Intel Xeon AMD Opteron Processors

  To date, no 4-way or 8-way TPC-H data warehouse benchmark result has been published for the six-core Xeon X7460 and no TPC-C or TPC-E OLTP benchmark result has been published for six-core Opteron. Usually, the absence of published results means the results Read More... Posted Sunday, September 13, 2009 5:23 PM by jchang | 1 Comments Filed under: Performance, Hardware, Scalability, Opteron, Xeon