(well, not really)
A little while ago, in one of our clusters we replaced a boatload of PowerEdge 1425 webserver-class boxes with a much smaller number of HP DL145 G3 quad-core boxes, getting the same amount of oomph from 1/3 the boxes. Not too bad.
Making a site faster by removing machines
August 20th, 2007 · 4 Comments
Tags: "capacity planning" · flickr
4 responses so far ↓
1 Tom Allender // Aug 20, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Quad-code boxes or chips? (can you even get quad-core AMD chips?)
Anyhow, that graph is super.
2 allspaw // Aug 20, 2007 at 1:03 pm
yeah…the old boxes were dual CPU, and the new ones are dual quad CPUs.
3 Bob Plankers // Aug 21, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Not only more performance per machine, but fewer parts to fail, fewer warranties and licenses to pay for, fewer OSes to patch, etc. Very cool.
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