September 2010 - Posts

• Benchmark Update - Astounding Fujitsu RX900 8-way Xeon 7560 TPC-E Scaling

  Fujitsu just published an astounding TPC-E benchmark result of 3,800 tpsE for their 8-way Xeon 7560 system, the Primergy RX900 S1. Fujitsu had previously published a TPC-E result of 2046.96 for their 4-way Xeon 7560 system, the Primergy RX600 S5. The Read More... Posted Tuesday, September 28, 2010 6:13 PM by jchang | 13 Comments Filed under: Benchmarks, Hardware, Performance

• Big-Iron Revival III

  Revenge, Return of Big Iron. In the old days, standard server systems did not have the power to run large enterprises, hence there were vendors that built really big servers. However it became apparent if not widely publicized that there were serious Read More... Posted Friday, September 24, 2010 10:24 PM by jchang | 5 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Scaling, Storage