Okay, is it just me or does anyone else get suspicious of graphs that only show ONE axis?? I'm assumeing that the x-axis is supposed to be wattage produced by their mock cpu's, but what's the scale?
Hell I might even be wrong, for all I know they're measuring body temperature over time as the tester realizes he's fried another cpu due to faulty cooling.
Personally I don't trust filesystem benchmarks where the test data is less than the amount of RAM in the box. 10,000 * 1K = 10MB which I'm assuming is less than the amount of RAM in the tests. At that point you're not taking into account interaction with the disks, all the reads and writes are occuring in filesystem cache.
The other week I ran some bonnie tests using a dual 1GHz, 1GB, 18GB 15K Seagate disk, 2.4.10. Default filesystem create options for both Ext2 and Reiser and 2000MB test file. I saw almost equal results with both filesystems averageing around 50MB/s for both reads and writes.
Actually it is totally possible for this to exist. The projections from all my storage vendors have said that 160G U160 drives should be coming out at the end of the year from Seagate. A quick look on their site shows that the max they're shipping now is 73G, but I'm sure they have 160's produced and are just getting vendor qualification right now. My guess is that these guys just pre-anounced their 4x160 model.
My beef though with large drives is that server vendors keep increasing the minimum root disk size. A 36G root disk is such a waste of space when you just install the OS on it, which takes at most 2G. 4's and 9's made the perfect root disks, but those have gone the way of the dodo.
If I had the cash the monitor that I would get is the IBM P260. This has sony's new apeture grile, flat tube in it. It is a very, very nice monitor. The new Sun 21" has the same tube, but I like IBM's because it's more tasteful, the Sun one is a bit to flashy for my taste. As always there is two inputs, but the kicker here is that as well as a vga connect (15pin Dsub) there is a DVI connector(digital video). The only card I've seen so far tho with dvi output is the ati card in Apple's new G4's.
Well I guess it all depends if you're doing floating point or integer work. Intel based for integer work, but for floating point I would have to go for the IBM Power3. This is the chip in their new RS/6000 44P-270. We just got 4 of these boxes at work on Thursday, and believe me, they are sweet boxes. They can scale up to a 4-way with 8gig of Ram. I haven't had a chance to run real benchmarks, but seti ran 2-3 times faster then the 43P-260 Power2. One work unit took about 4 to 5 hours I believe. For high-end research, this is the box to get for sure!
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Okay, is it just me or does anyone else get suspicious of graphs that only show ONE axis?? I'm assumeing that the x-axis is supposed to be wattage produced by their mock cpu's, but what's the scale?
Hell I might even be wrong, for all I know they're measuring body temperature over time as the tester realizes he's fried another cpu due to faulty cooling.
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Personally I don't trust filesystem benchmarks where the test data is less than the amount of RAM in the box. 10,000 * 1K = 10MB which I'm assuming is less than the amount of RAM in the tests. At that point you're not taking into account interaction with the disks, all the reads and writes are occuring in filesystem cache.
The other week I ran some bonnie tests using a dual 1GHz, 1GB, 18GB 15K Seagate disk, 2.4.10. Default filesystem create options for both Ext2 and Reiser and 2000MB test file. I saw almost equal results with both filesystems averageing around 50MB/s for both reads and writes.
My beef though with large drives is that server vendors keep increasing the minimum root disk size. A 36G root disk is such a waste of space when you just install the OS on it, which takes at most 2G. 4's and 9's made the perfect root disks, but those have gone the way of the dodo.
If I had the cash the monitor that I would get is the IBM P260. This has sony's new apeture grile, flat tube in it. It is a very, very nice monitor. The new Sun 21" has the same tube, but I like IBM's because it's more tasteful, the Sun one is a bit to flashy for my taste. As always there is two inputs, but the kicker here is that as well as a vga connect (15pin Dsub) there is a DVI connector(digital video). The only card I've seen so far tho with dvi output is the ati card in Apple's new G4's.
Well I guess it all depends if you're doing floating point or integer work. Intel based for integer work, but for floating point I would have to go for the IBM Power3. This is the chip in their new RS/6000 44P-270. We just got 4 of these boxes at work on Thursday, and believe me, they are sweet boxes. They can scale up to a 4-way with 8gig of Ram. I haven't had a chance to run real benchmarks, but seti ran 2-3 times faster then the 43P-260 Power2. One work unit took about 4 to 5 hours I believe. For high-end research, this is the box to get for sure!