August 2009 - Posts

• Solid State Drive versus Memory, TPC-H Nehalem

  A recently published TPC-H benchmark result, along with previously published results provide some insight into to the relative impact of SSD to disk drives, and SSD versus system memory. The TPC-H configurations are shown below. All results are at SF Read More... Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:06 AM by jchang | 9 Comments Filed under: Performance, SSD, Storage

• Server Hardware for 2009 Q3

  Earlier, JK blogged and ranted about buying bigger hardware. Let me assure people that talent for highly efficient and scalable (over many processor cores) was drained long ago, and not just from the recent emergence of multi-core processors. For that Read More... Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:51 PM by jchang | 4 Comments Filed under: Hardware