Quad-core Xeons use small power plant to maul Opterons
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| The benchmark was performed using 32 computers to submit 500 individual
| transactions to a server running Novell's SUSE Linux, Apache2 and MySQL. The
| firm said the test has a complex multi-user load with a large memory
| footprint, a high volume of context switches, significant network traffic and
| substantial amounts of physical disk I/O. Servers put through the wringer
| used 1GB memory modules in 4, 8 and 16GB memory configurations.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/16/nnanda_benchmark_amd_and_intel_quad_cores/
It's almost always Linux when it comes to these hardware benchmarks.
2 days ago:
AMD Beats Intel in Quad-Core Server Power Efficiency: Neal Nelson
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| These new test results were collected with Neal Nelson’s Power Efficiency
| Benchmark which is a client server test where up to 500 world wide web users
| from 32 separate computers submit individual transactions to a server running
| the Apache2 web server software, the MySQL relational database and Novell’s
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server operating system. The benchmark has a complex
| multi-user load with a large memory footprint, a high volume of context
| switches, significant network traffic and substantial amounts of physical
| disk I/O.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/080114/20080114006249.html?.v=1
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