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Reports were released a few weeks ago finding that AMD Opteron-based servers were far more power-efficient when compared to Intel's offerings. Intel refuted those reports, stating that they put no thought into overall efficiency. Essentially, their thoughts are that an AMD Dual-Core server might use lower power than an Intel Quad-Core, but the latter would obviously be more efficient overall.
Come early next year, such reports could be more accurate thanks to an upcoming SPEC application that's designed for this exact reason. In development for over 18-months, this tool would be used to measure not only power consumption, but also overall efficiency. The SPEC committee includes HP employees who no doubt want to find out information that would produce better servers for their customers, so the application will certainly have some merit once out the door.
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Currently, there's no way for IT managers to choose among servers based on the energy efficiency of the systems, Koomey said, adding that the new benchmark will allow "sensible decision-making." He said the benchmark may also lead to improvements of more than 30% in the power efficiency of servers as vendors respond with lower-power chips, better power supplies and other improvements.
Source: Computer World
Come early next year, such reports could be more accurate thanks to an upcoming SPEC application that's designed for this exact reason. In development for over 18-months, this tool would be used to measure not only power consumption, but also overall efficiency. The SPEC committee includes HP employees who no doubt want to find out information that would produce better servers for their customers, so the application will certainly have some merit once out the door.
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Currently, there's no way for IT managers to choose among servers based on the energy efficiency of the systems, Koomey said, adding that the new benchmark will allow "sensible decision-making." He said the benchmark may also lead to improvements of more than 30% in the power efficiency of servers as vendors respond with lower-power chips, better power supplies and other improvements.
Source: Computer World