BM Seer Unofficial thoughts from an anonymous Sun employee

InfoWorld weighs in on Energy Star for Servers

Wednesday May 27, 2009

New article on Energy Star for Servers http://www.infoworld.com/print/76258

    Idle servers are the devil's tools So what's wrong with the new Energy Star criteria? Perhaps the most significant drawback is that a qualifying server need only demonstrate energy efficiency when it's in idle -- that is, powered on but doing no work.
They continue...
    To better illustrate the problem, imagine you're at a used car lot where a shifty salesperson is trying to push you to buy an SUV. His selling point: "This baby uses the same amount of fuel as a hybrid sedan -- when you're not moving."
My view is, as I've stated before, ALL computer vendors need to publish watts on standard benchmarks. Sun has been doing many for years... My view is some vendors only want to hid behind idle watts and argued enough so that in the end the US Gov just put out this.

But what about SPECpower, see these:
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/specpower_ssj2008_sun_netra_x4250
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/chopped_configs_and_specpowerssj2008

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Posted at 10:44AM May 27, 2009 in Benchmark Issues
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