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Chip Shot: SGI Announces Servers Based on Intel’s New Xeon 5600 Series

SGI today announced immediate support of Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series (codenamed “Westmere-EP”) across its entire scale-out server lineup. SGI’s server solutions will boast increased performance, core density and power efficiency up to sixty percent.

Green Grid Unveils 2 Data Center Efficiency Tools

At the Green Grid’s Technical Forum, the organization introduces a Power Efficiency Estimator that enables data center operators to compare different possible situations involving power topologies and technologies inside their facilities. The new Power Usage Effectiveness Calculator allows managers to easily input their facilities’ specific data at regular intervals to determine their PUE.
– SAN JOSE,
Calif. The Green Grid, which has quickly
become one of the more influential green IT organizations in the world in only
three years of existence, on Feb. 4 introduced two freely available online
tools to help data center managers keep track of power and cooling efficiency.

The Green…


Intel Online Calculator Measures Server Performance, Efficiency

On its Website for IT professionals, Intel has introduced a calculator that customers can use to determine the performance and power efficiency of their servers. The calculator takes into account everything from the age of the server to the number of cores on the processor to the energy consumption at both idle and full utilization. Many technology vendors, including Sun, AMD, VMware, HP and Dell, offer online calculators that help businesses measure everything from energy consumption to ROI.
– Intel has introduced a new calculator on its Website for IT administrators
that lets them determine the performance and efficiency of their servers.
The tool, on the Intel Premiere IT
Professional site, also lets IT folks find out what their server
performance and efficiency could be if they mad…



AMD Announces Six-Core AMD Opteron Processors

AMD debuts three additions to the Opteron processors: Six-Core AMD Opteron HE processors that deliver up to 18 percent higher performance per watt and up to 18 percent lower platform-level power consumption.
– Technology giant and chip maker Advanced Micro Devices announced the
availability of three members of the Six-Core AMD
Opteron processor family that the company said address the rising demand for
balanced systems with increased performance but also greater power efficiency
for cloud computing an…