{"id":441,"date":"2006-04-04T13:31:27","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/8fa90481485cbecd073c149d6071b71d"},"modified":"2006-04-04T13:31:27","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:31:27","slug":"the-changing-face-of-performance-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"The changing face of performance statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read Robert's post yesterday<\/a> on the way companies are changing the way they measure performance from the current per-MHz\/GHz to performance per watt. Robert's comments were based on the front page story yesterday, Power struggle: How IT managers cope with the data center power demands<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The result got me thinking about how we measure performance and what the yardstick should be. <\/p>\n

My first comment is that power has long been a problem for data center managers, and I'm not going to repeat my own feelings and findings on the use (and often waste) of power, or the eco-friendly options that are available. I won't make the comment either about Sun's T1 CPU (Niagara) which was designed with high performance and low power requirements in mind and Sun's aptly named the servers CoolThreads<\/a>. OK, I just made the comment anyway, but it nicely leads me on to part of the point I want to make.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I read Robert’s post yesterday<\/a> on the way companies are changing the way they measure performance from the current per-MHz\/GHz to performance per watt. Robert’s comments were based on the front page story yesterday, Power struggle: How IT managers cope with the data center power demands<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The result got me thinking about how we measure performance and what the yardstick should be. <\/p>\n

My first comment is that power has long been a problem for data center managers, and I’m not going to repeat my own feelings and findings on the use (and often waste) of power, or the eco-friendly options that are available. I won’t make the comment either about Sun’s T1 CPU (Niagara) which was designed with high performance and low power requirements in mind and Sun’s aptly named the servers CoolThreads<\/a>. OK, I just made the comment anyway, but it nicely leads me on to part of the point I want to make.<\/p>\n

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