April 2010 - Posts

• Intel Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) and 7500 (Nehalem-EX) and AMD Magny-Cours

  Intel launched the Xeon 5600 series (Westmere-EP, 32nm) six-core processors on 16 March 2010 without any TPC benchmark results. In the performance world, no results almost always mean bad or not good results. Yet there is every reason to believe that Read More... Posted Wednesday, April 07, 2010 11:34 PM by jchang | 8 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Benchmarks

• Storage Configuration

  Storage performance is not inherently a complicated subject. The concepts are relatively simple. In fact, scaling storage performance is far easier compared with the difficulties encounters in scaling processor performance in NUMA systems. Storage performance Read More... Posted Sunday, April 04, 2010 6:06 AM by jchang | 6 Comments Filed under: Storage