Re: Re: Low power PC option

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

This is quite an interesting paper on server power consumption that's
been
doing the rounds lately:
http://csl.stanford.edu/%7Echristos/publications/2007.jsort.sigmod.pdf

And Storage Mojo's take on it:
http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/19/benchmarking-energy-efficiency/

Power consumption of 2.5" disks is quite interesting, pity they only
come in
small sizes...

On 23/08/07, Paul Bendall <paul@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> I run Cortex on a Via Mini-ITX EN15000 MoBo. It has been running
> quite happily for well over a year. I have a Megawatt plug-in monitor
> and it consumes around 26W. No real heat either. As well as running
> Cortex it has the following:
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> Windows 2003 Domain Controller
> Exchange 2003
> Slimserver 6.5.3
> SQL 2005
> Windows Update Sservie 3.0
> Printer Server
> DHCP
> DNS
> WINS
>
> Okay none of the above are heavily used but they are all used and I
> have had no problems with it. Would like slightly more memory but
> that is so I can run VMWare or Virtual Server. Really looking forward
> to the SN board being released shortly which allows 4GB of RAM.
>
> For a Node0 and central server I really don't see the need for a
> power-hungry CPU or MoBo.
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--
Andy


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