14 DAY TRIAL // Dell's PowerEdge series of servers just got their latest and greatest series member, one that is, in great detail, described as much better than the competing solutions from HP and IBM
Dell says, in its announcement, that the PowerEdge C6145 gets its might from the AMD Opteron 6200 series of high-tier processors.
The chips have up to 16 cores after all, leading to what Dell says is a prowess 8% better than what HP's Proliant BL685c G7 blade servers can dish out.
Dell also compares the newcomers with other HP and IBM solutions, citing massive performance per unit boosts.
Cloud computing is where the PowerEdge C6145 is meant to show its worth.
“Highly virtualized environments and scale-out workloads like cloud and Big Data are changing the dynamics of the data center,” said Sally Stevens, vice president, Server Platform Marketing, Dell.
“From economical 2-socket platforms to high-performance 4-socket blades and ultra-dense servers, Dell PowerEdge systems are tuned to deliver outstanding performance and scalability. Our customers want to be able to do more work in less space, and we're giving them that capability with a complete AMD-based server portfolio that allows them to effectively manage high volumes of system traffic while reducing workload costs.”
The PowerEdge C6145 has up to 128 AMD 6200 Series processor cores in 2U and a shared infrastructure, for increased server density and minimized power drain.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the customers that adopted it for the iForge supercomputer.
“Regular upgrades to the latest technologies help ensure that we continue to provide a distinct competitive advantage to our partners,” said Evan Burness, project manager of NCSA's Private Sector Program.
“Across a number of benchmarks, NCSA's early testing of the Dell PowerEdge C6145 with AMD Opteron 6200 series processors shows substantially better performance per dollar when compared to the Intel Xeon L7555 processor. Dell and AMD technology gives NCSA iForge the ability to do more with less, and that's a tremendous value for us.”