As both Rock and Niagara 2 use FB-DIMMS this are really good news: FB-DIMMs have an addtional circuit called Advanced Memory Buffer. The higher consumption of FB-DIMMS can be credited to this AMB. IDT now annouced a
25 percent more efficient circuit. Okay, thats only between 1 and 2 Watt per DIMM, but you have 16, maybe 32 DIMMs in your server, and thus 16 to 32 AMBs. And from a system view, this really counts.
Comments
Thu, 28.08.2008 11:42
I called it fangorn (sindarin for Treebeard) because it´s th e oldest active machine in my home office.
Thu, 28.08.2008 10:23
My old Sun Ultra 10
Thu, 28.08.2008 09:08
Writing this comment on a Sun Ultra6 with 2x450MHz und 2 GB RAM. It is a fine hardware.
Thu, 28.08.2008 01:06
There is another aspect of MAI D, when it is done properly, w hich is the design of a physic al enclosure for the dis [...]
Wed, 27.08.2008 22:36
I'm not particularly convinced by MAID either. The little I' ve looked at it, they try to k eep the discs alive by d [...]