Sun is launching systems with multisocket 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.
# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5) x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11) x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435
I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …
[Read more]Sun is launching systems with multisocket 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.
# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5) x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11) x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435
I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …
[Read more]Sun is launching systems with multisocket 6-core Opterons (Istanbul) today. Last week I got access to Sun Fire X4140 with 2 x 6-core Opterons with 36GB RAM. It is always great to see such a 1RU system packaged with so many x64 cores.
# psrinfo -vp The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (0-5) x86 (chipid 0x0 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435 The physical processor has 6 virtual processors (6-11) x86 (chipid 0x1 AuthenticAMD family 16 model 8 step 0 clock 2600 MHz) Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 8435
I decided to take the system for a test drive with Olio. Olio is a Web 2.0 toolkit consisting on a web 2.0 event calendar application which can help stress a system. Depending on your favorite scripting language you …
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Following on the heels of our memcached performance tests on SunFire X2270 (
Sun's Nehalem-based server) running OpenSolaris, we ran the same
tests on the same server but this time on RHEL5. As mentioned in
the post presenting the first memcached results, a 10GBE Intel Oplin card was
used in order to achieve the high throughput rates possible with
these servers. It turned out that using this card on linux
involved a bit of work resulting in driver and kernel
re-builds.
- With the default ixgbe driver from the RedHat distribution (version 1.3.30-k2 on kernel 2.6.18)), the interface simply hung during the benchmark test.
- This led to downloading the driver from the Intel site (1.3.56.11-2-NAPI) and re-compiling it. This version does …
Following on the heels of our memcached performance tests on SunFire X2270 (
Sun's Nehalem-based server) running OpenSolaris, we ran the same
tests on the same server but this time on RHEL5. As mentioned in
the post presenting the first memcached results, a 10GBE Intel Oplin card was
used in order to achieve the high throughput rates possible with
these servers. It turned out that using this card on linux
involved a bit of work resulting in driver and kernel
re-builds.
- With the default ixgbe driver from the RedHat distribution (version 1.3.30-k2 on kernel 2.6.18)), the interface simply hung during the benchmark test.
- This led to downloading the driver from the Intel site (1.3.56.11-2-NAPI) and re-compiling it. This version …
Following on the heels of our memcached performance tests on SunFire X2270 (
Sun's Nehalem-based server) running OpenSolaris, we ran the same
tests on the same server but this time on RHEL5. As mentioned in
the post presenting the first memcached results, a 10GBE Intel Oplin card
was used in order to achieve the high throughput rates possible
with these servers. It turned out that using this card on linux
involved a bit of work resulting in driver and kernel
re-builds.
- With the default ixgbe driver from the RedHat distribution (version 1.3.30-k2 on kernel 2.6.18)), the interface simply hung during the benchmark test.
- This led to downloading the driver from the Intel site (1.3.56.11-2-NAPI) and re-compiling it. This version …
The first cut of a Java EE implementation of Olio is now checked into the repository. The file docs/java_setup.html gives instructions on how to build and setup this implementation. The implementation uses JSP, servlets, JPA for persistence, yahoo and Jmaki widgets for AJAX etc. The web application is located in webapp/java/trunk and the load driver, database and file loaders etc. are in workload/java/trunk.
Check it out.