Truth on Woodcrest wattage
Thursday Nov 02, 2006
Getting the truth out on Woodcrest. BM Seer getting top ranking in google on woodcrest and watts. A search for "woodcrest wattage" and "Woodcrest watts" gets top two entries. Even a google search for "woodcrest" gets the BM Seer blog entry in at #27.
Seems lots of people are surprised that a 32GB 2 Woodcrest server draws a hefty 510 watts - which is an awful lot in 2RU. Why didn't the Woodcrest vendors just publish this at product launch? Global information age means the info will get out. Transparency is what Jonathan, CEO of Sun Microsystems, always talks about.
...added note
Xray's comment is such FUD, 430 watts was measured with almost no disk on a
real workload on only a 16GB woodcrest -- simply put, woodcrest wastes 100watts more than a 32GB T2000, and 2x more watts than a T1000. Woodcrest supporters offer no measured wattage on 16GB or 32GB systems, but try to undermine the facts...
If you have a woodcrest measure the watts and post them, clearly woodcrest vendors don't want you to know.
- Woodcrest 16GB 430 watt measured:
Dell 2950
2 x 3GHz Woodcrest Xeon 5160 (4MB L2 cache)
16GB = 8 x 2GB DIMM;
one 73GB 15K rpm SAS (disk idle)
1.333MHz FSB
PERC 5/i, x6 Backplane Integrated Controller Card
QLogic 2462 Dual Channel 4GB Optical FC HBA PCI-E
OS: SuSE - SLES
all bios settings correct
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Posted by Wes Felter (IBM Research) on November 07, 2006 at 11:50 AM PST #
Pretty unrealistic.
Posted by BM Seer on November 07, 2006 at 04:51 PM PST #
Posted by Xray on November 07, 2006 at 08:27 PM PST #