Re: blade servers?

From: David R
Date: Tue Apr 04 2006 - 14:05:50 EST


Larry McVoy wrote:

> For all of the Unix like platforms, we'd be happy with 2Ghz Athlons (don't
> need opterons) with 256MB. It's true that for the windows platforms we

No specific recommendations, but one thing to keep in mind is that later
process/stepping Athlon 64/Opterons are far more power efficient (especially
when using powernow) than older 32 bit Athlons.

I'm not sure why Xeon based space heaters^H^H blades have been recommended in
previous posts when low power is an issue?!?

Cheers
David

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