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• Big Iron Revival, Intel Nehalem EX and AMD Magny-Cours

  Yesterday Intel held a product announcement press event for the upcoming Nehalem EX, which will succeed the current Xeon 7400 series based on the Core 2 micro-architecture for "expandable system", i.e., 4-way and higher, in late 2009 or early 2010. The Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 5:37 PM by jchang | 5 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Performance, Scalability, Sizing

• Is any one seriously looking at the HP ProLiant DL785G5?

  Or the IBM x3950M2 8-way Quad-Core Xeon? Consider the following specs: 8-way Quad-Core Opteron (32 cores total) Max Memory: 512GB (64 DIMM sockets) 11 PCI-E slots: 3x16, 3x8, and 5x4 or option for 7 PCI-E and 2HTx Compare this with the HP ProLiant DL585G5: Read More... Posted Sunday, July 20, 2008 1:22 PM by jchang | 24 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Performance, Scalability, Sizing

• Sizing for SQL Server 2000 and 2005

  Server sizing strategies using requirement driven approaches tend to go in to inane details involving substantial effort with no clear conclusions at the end. By considering only the systems most suitable for line-of-business database servers, there are Read More... Posted Thursday, December 20, 2007 11:47 AM by jchang | 11 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Sizing