Tyan S8212 Spotted
Thanks to a tweet from @ErikBussink and the quick thinking of Charlie Demerjian at SemiAccurate we’ve been treated to a picture of the upcoming Tyan S8212 (2-way) based on AMD’s new line-up of...
View ArticleQuick Take: AMD Releases SE/HE Six-Cores
Today AMD published pricing for 5 new Istanbul SKUs – two designated as 105W APC high-performance SE and three as 55W APC low-power HE models. In the SE category, the 2439SE and 8439SE at 2.8GHz...
View ArticleRIP Dunnington: HP’s 4P/24-core Istanbul Takes VMmark Summit
HP has simultaneously achieved two near identical VMmark scores with their ProLiant DL585 G6 rack server and ProLiant BL685c G6 blade, claiming the summit from the reigning 24-core champion. Since...
View ArticleNEC Adds Top 48-Core, Dell Challenges 24-Core in VMmark Race
NEC’s venerable Express5800/A1160 tops the 48-core VMmark category today with a score of 34.05@24 tiles to wrest the title away from IBM who established the category back in June, 2009. NEC’s new...
View ArticleQuick Take: 6-core “Gulftown” Nehalem-EP Spotted, Tested
TechReport is reporting on a Taiwanese overclocker who may be testing a pair of Nehalem 6-core processors (2P) slated for release early in 2010. Likewise, AlienBabelTech mentions a Chinese website,...
View ArticleQuick Take: HP Plants the Flag with 48-core VMmark Milestones
Following on the heels of last month we predicted that HP could easily claim the VMmark summit with its DL785 G6 using AMD’s Istanbul processors: If AMD’s Istanbul scales to 8-socket at least as...
View ArticleQuick Take: HP’s Sets Another 48-core VMmark Milestone
Not satisfied with a landmark VMmark score that crossed the 30 tile mark for the first time, HP’s performance team went back to the benches two weeks later and took another swing at the performance...
View ArticleQuick Take: Dell/Nehalem Take #2, 2P VMmark Spot
The new 1st runner-up spot for VMmark in the “8 core” category was taken yesterday by Dell’s R710 – just edging-out the previous second spot HP ProLiant BL490 G6 by 0.1% – a virtual dead heat. Equipped...
View ArticleQuick Take: Magny-Cours Spotted, Pushed to 3GHz for wPrime
Andreas Galistel at NordicHardware posted an article showing a system running a pair of engineering samples of the Magny-Cours processor running at 3.0GHz. Undoubtedly these images were culled from a...
View ArticleQuick Take: Nehalem/Istanbul Comparison at AnandTech
Johan De Gelas and crew present an interesting comparison of Dunnington, Shanghai, Istanbul and Nehalem in a new post at AnandTech this week. In the test line-up are the “top bin” parts from Intel and...
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