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• Intel Xeon E5 (Sandy Bridge-EP) and SQL Server 2012 Benchmarks

  Intel officially announced the Xeon E5 2600 series processor based on Sandy Bridge-EP variant with upto 8 cores and 20MB LLC per socket. Only one TPC benchmark accompanied product launch, summary below. Processors Cores per Frequency Memory SQL Vendor Read More... Posted Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:53 PM by jchang | 1 Comments Filed under: Benchmarks, Hardware, Xeon

• Hyper-Threading from NetBurst to Nehalem

  There seems to be significant confusion about Hyper-Threading. Part of the problem is that vendors like to tout every new feature as the greatest invention since the six-pack, and its follow-on the 12-pack. I used to think the 4-pack was a travesty. But Read More... Posted Tuesday, March 23, 2010 11:53 AM by jchang | 4 Comments Filed under: hyper-threading, Intel, Itanium, Nehalem, NetBurst, processors, Xeon

• 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 | 0 Comments Filed under: Hardware, Opteron, Performance, Scalability, Xeon