If you want to distill the argument between Intel Xeon and AMD Epyc server processors down to three things, they would be: AMD’s interconnection of the Cores on Epyc is much slower than on Intel Xeon’s AMD Epyc CPU’s are faster than Intel Xeon in memory intensive applications In general, […]
Intel says that the Xeon Scalable Processor line is the largest upgrade in server CPU’s in a decade. Lets take a very quick run through of what has changed and then you can make up your own mind. NAMING: The new CPU’s are code named Skylake and the new Chipset […]
This short video from Intel explains the key new / enhanced features of the Xeon E5 server processors https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdnDL-4HiLQ
Put simply, Azure B Series virtual machines will only operate at about 1/3rd of their CPU potential most of the time. Microsoft recommends B-Series for “burst” workloads, and not continuous loads and they make that work using a credit system to stop these VM’s from hogging the CPU. For instance […]
In a word, power. Most modern PC’s used in offices today have a-lot of computing ability, but a Workstation takes it to the next level. What is a Workstation? The definition of a Workstation was simply a desktop computer version of a server, which often included CPU’s each with multiple […]
If this video we fully explore the Dell Precision T7920 workstation. The T7920 we are demonstrating on has two Intel Xeon sockets but only one of them populated. We did this to allow for future expansion to protect our investment. We: Unbox Perform a basic disassembly Install two sets of […]
It is easy to get overwhelmed trying to figure out which Intel CPU does what and why one is better than the other. To make your selection a little less daunting we have three sections for you to skim through: Text description of Intel CPU’s Simple summary of Intel consumer […]
Intel AVX-512 is the latest version of Advanced Vector Extensions. Since x86 instruction set was designed in the 1970’s there has been a drive to extend that instruction set so that the CPU can handle more and more tasks. This means that fewer and few special purpose add-on cards are […]
Windows 10 has many lesser known variants including Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Branch, Windows 10 Embedded and Windows 10 Team. In the fall of 2017, a new variant named Windows 10 Pro For Workstations will be added to the list. Windows 10 for Workstations is a high end version of the […]
I just ran a patch cycle on an a small Exchange 2007 Standard Server running ForeFront Protection For Exchange 2010 and was shocked that it took over half an hour to install KB2538719 Hotfix Rollup 3 for Microsoft Forefront Protection for Exchange . The server in question did not have […]
UPDATED: November 2016 If you are confused by SAN, NAS, DAS, iSCSI, FC… and want a simple explanation, then this is the post for you! INTERNAL STORAGE = Disks in the Box The classic. A bunch of disks inside a standard (usually Windows) server, configured in whatever RAID you want. […]
In a dual core, dual CPU system which CPU’s are real and which are Hyperthreads? According to my research, on an Intel Xeon 5000 server, the following configuration is what Windows sees: CPU ordinal number CPU id CHIP SLOT FUNC1 (the first CPU)………. (0)……………. slot 1 real core A12 ……………………………….(1)……………. […]
Intel released comprehensive set of comparison benchmarks for new Xeon and Core 2 processors. Like most, if not all, companies that produce benchmarks they are skewed to favour the new product. For instance on: http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/database.htm you can see the the old single core Xeon is tested with 16GB of RAM, […]