Originally by: Sith LordXXX

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Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:35:33
Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:30:49
Opteron 6174's would have been a much better upgrade as apose to 8 fake cores in the intel and intel costing twice as much going for $2400, the AMD's have 12 real cores giving far more processing power then a intel chip with only 8 real cores with a marketing gimmic of 8 fake cores.

16 threads don't equal twice the processing power. The performance boost 2 threads give is fake. Like smoke and mirrors you can't get power from something that isn't there. As apose to 12 real physical cores with 12 threads. Your getting real world performance for half the cost. Means you could have used 4 socket boards to get 48 real cores of power for the same price as a dual socket intel. Intel doesn't have quad socket boards on newegg, amd does, for 12 real core cpus. Thats more then 50% the power then a intel system. Intel is a joke. AMD beats intel in every way in the server area its physical fact.

If anybody thinks 16 cores with 16 fake cores can beat even 24 real cores they get a for being derp, and 48 real cores impossible intel can even compete with, if you think so, you get a double... Also price per performance ratio amd wins by 50%. Thats madness. AMD is the real smart choice for real processing power. Wow intresting intel's 8 core cpu's run at 130w and amd's 12 core cpu's run at 115w. Not only does amd have more power, they use less power consumption with more cores.

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9 x 300 GB SSD's drives RAID 5 attached via IBM V7000
36 x 600 GB SAS drives RAID 10 attached via IBM V7000

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Originally by: Hawk TT

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CCP, now you have to look at Intel Xeon X5698 Dual-Core 4.4GHz and X569X @ 4.66GHz...

I suppose those would be nice match for the SOL nodes...

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• Inventory 64

• API

• Evegate

• Enhanced Backups

• Cleanup jobs

• Simple DB size growth

Originally by: Korerin Mayul

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you have four 8g ports per server, rolled into 2 trunks of 16g? - sweet!! what is managing the host level trunking? I havent seen this done in anger before

THIS

Additionally, be really careful with thin provisioning, I speek form bitter, bitter experience that using that stuff in prod will cause many tears and late night clickeyfests.

Only being used for non-production warehousing and such. Just more cool stuff we didn't have before. Daddy likes options you know?

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Originally by: Erichk Knaar

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ITT: People who don't get why Intel is leading AMD.

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/amd12core_032610044429/22157.png

There's your precious AMD chip in a database test.

Other wise, as someone who understands what all of that is: Nice toys :)

Seconding the guy above who mentioned Greenplum. Stuff is sick (And cost effective).

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Originally by: Svizac Marmotov

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Is Tranquility going to become self-aware?

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Originally by: ModeratedToSilence

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Originally by: CCP Yokai

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Originally by: Marconus Orion

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I'm not very tech savy so for us laymen non-super geeks, please using a car reference, what is the comparison?

We going from a Fiesta to a Mustang?

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We had a Ferrari 1985 288 GTO

We have a Ferrari 2011 599 GTO

Both great... both fast... the new one is just magic.

make sense?

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Attempting to align computer technology development with automotive development is stupidity. Computer hardware tends to double in its basic attributes every 18-24 months. If we had the same development in motor vehicles we would not be playing internet spaceships - we would be in real life spaceships.

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Originally by: CCP Yokai

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Originally by: Hawk TT

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CCP, now you have to look at Intel Xeon X5698 Dual-Core 4.4GHz and X569X @ 4.66GHz...

I suppose those would be nice match for the SOL nodes...

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Spoiler Alert!!!

Watch my very short 2 min section of the Keynote today at 15:00...

All I can say right now... but there is way! more to come.

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Originally by: Rahnim

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And all this stuff is live now? when did you change this stuff? did it fix the large scale fleet lag?

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Originally by: CCP Shadow

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Dr. Sheepbringer -- It's not that kind of horn.

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Originally by: Sith LordXXX

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Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:35:33
Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:30:49
Opteron 6174's would have been a much better upgrade as apose to 8 fake cores in the intel and intel costing twice as much going for $2400, the AMD's have 12 real cores giving far more processing power then a intel chip with only 8 real cores with a marketing gimmic of 8 fake cores.

16 threads don't equal twice the processing power. The performance boost 2 threads give is fake. Like smoke and mirrors you can't get power from something that isn't there. As apose to 12 real physical cores with 12 threads. Your getting real world performance for half the cost. Means you could have used 4 socket boards to get 48 real cores of power for the same price as a dual socket intel. Intel doesn't have quad socket boards on newegg, amd does, for 12 real core cpus. Thats more then 50% the power then a intel system. Intel is a joke. AMD beats intel in every way in the server area its physical fact.

If anybody thinks 16 cores with 16 fake cores can beat even 24 real cores they get a for being derp, and 48 real cores impossible intel can even compete with, if you think so, you get a double... Also price per performance ratio amd wins by 50%. Thats madness. AMD is the real smart choice for real processing power. Wow intresting intel's 8 core cpu's run at 130w and amd's 12 core cpu's run at 115w. Not only does amd have more power, they use less power consumption with more cores.

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Originally by: CCP Zymurgist

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Revenge is a dish best served with auto-cannons.

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Originally by: Sith LordXXX

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Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:35:33
Edited by: Sith LordXXX on 25/03/2011 05:30:49
Opteron 6174's would have been a much better upgrade as apose to 8 fake cores in the intel and intel costing twice as much going for $2400, the AMD's have 12 real cores giving far more processing power then a intel chip with only 8 real cores with a marketing gimmic of 8 fake cores.

16 threads don't equal twice the processing power. The performance boost 2 threads give is fake. Like smoke and mirrors you can't get power from something that isn't there. As apose to 12 real physical cores with 12 threads. Your getting real world performance for half the cost. Means you could have used 4 socket boards to get 48 real cores of power for the same price as a dual socket intel. Intel doesn't have quad socket boards on newegg, amd does, for 12 real core cpus. Thats more then 50% the power then a intel system. Intel is a joke. AMD beats intel in every way in the server area its physical fact.

If anybody thinks 16 cores with 16 fake cores can beat even 24 real cores they get a for being derp, and 48 real cores impossible intel can even compete with, if you think so, you get a double... Also price per performance ratio amd wins by 50%. Thats madness. AMD is the real smart choice for real processing power. Wow intresting intel's 8 core cpu's run at 130w and amd's 12 core cpu's run at 115w. Not only does amd have more power, they use less power consumption with more cores.

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Originally by: Tinkanium

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Originally by: Ban Doga

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It is also true that there is always a limiting factor and addressing one will usually make something else a limiting factor.

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Yeah man. In fact based on what you yourself said you're already wrong. There's always a limiting factor. If you fix that, and it is no longer the limiting factor, then by the logic that there's always a limiting factor something else must become the limiting factor.

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Originally by: Tinkanium

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Even in the dev blogs there's always someone. Seriously. Incredibly long post containing nothing but quotes and seemingly intelligent logic that basically amounts to nothing. Please do save us all some time and just read along k?

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