The Alienware X51 with Samsung SSD delivers more speed and greater performance than the same machine with HDD storage, which for gamers means better gaming experiences. For a modest additional investment, users could avoid frustrating lag times when copying large files and when booting and shutting down their systems. Users should appreciate the noticeable improvements that a solid-state drive brings.
Performance and battery life comparison: Samsung solid-state drive vs. hard d...Principled Technologies
A zippy Samsung SSD-based notebook computer can speed up your employees’ experience at work; saving a few seconds here and there over the course of the day might sound inconsequential, but can add up. Being able to take advantage of a power-saving feature such as Intel Rapid Start Technology extends battery life, which can make employees’ lives easier. Investing in Samsung SSDs for your Dell Latitude E6430 notebooks can deliver this improved speed and battery life, boosting both productivity and morale.
Comparing desktop drive performance: Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive vs. har...Principled Technologies
In our tests, the Seagate SSHD configuration outperformed all three hard drive configurations and delivered results comparable to a Seagate Client SSD configuration. It launched applications as much as 23.7 percent more quickly and delivered disk performance increases of up to 387.3 percent over the HDDs we tested.
By speeding up the tasks that users perform day in and day out, the Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive can boost productivity and let you spend more of your day working and less of it waiting—without forcing you to choose between speed and storage capacity.
Performance comparison: Samsung solid-state drive vs. hard disk drive in a De...Principled Technologies
A zippy Samsung SSD-based laptop can speed up your employees’ experience at work. Saving a few seconds here and there over the course of the day might sound inconsequential, but those seconds can add up. We found that the Dell Latitude E7440 with a 512GB Samsung PM851 SSD outperformed the same system with an HDD in both performance and battery life. Investing in Samsung SSDs for your Dell Latitude 14 7000 Series laptops can boost both employee productivity and morale. As SSDs continue to evolve, employees will likely be able to benefit from the performance advantages of SSDs without sacrificing storage space.
For more info on the Dell Latitude 14 7000 Series laptop, visit www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e7440-ultrabook/fs?pf=v. To learn about the SSD options that Dell offers, visit www.dell.com/business/ssd.
For more info on Samsung SSD technology, visit www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product/flash-ssd/overview.
http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/Latitude_14_7000_SamsungSSD_0115.pdf
Accelerate Game Development and Enhance Game Experience with Intel® Optane™ T...Intel® Software
The document discusses findings from using Intel Optane technology for game development. It describes how Optane SSDs improved performance by allowing for faster and more efficient parallel processing, multithreading, and streaming of large files during gameplay. Developers saw benefits like faster loading times, smoother streaming, and more efficient exporting and copying of large files and datasets. Rendering a fluid dynamics simulation with over 1 billion particles was accelerated from 17 hours to 6.3 hours by using an Optane SSD.
The document summarizes Intel's new Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe. It provides an overview of Intel's SSD product families for different market segments. It then focuses on the new Data Center Family for PCIe, highlighting its native PCIe interface, performance benefits over SAS/SATA, endurance, reliability features, and product lineup. Finally, it lists upcoming events where Intel will promote the new data center SSD family.
This document discusses optimizing Oracle databases that run on VMware virtual machines. It covers VMware's memory, CPU, and I/O resource management and provides recommendations for configuration. Key points include using memory reservations to avoid swapping, allocating enough vCPUs while avoiding overprovisioning, dedicating storage and enabling Storage I/O Control for I/O performance. Oracle RAC support on VMware requires Oracle 11.2.0.2 or higher.
Optimize oracle on VMware (April 2011)Guy Harrison
- Virtualizing Oracle databases on VMware ESX requires careful configuration and monitoring of memory, CPU, and I/O resources to avoid performance issues.
- ESX uses memory overcommitment and techniques like ballooning and swapping to manage physical memory across VMs, which can cause problems if they page Oracle memory like the SGA.
- Multiple virtual CPUs on a VM must wait to be scheduled on the physical CPUs, showing up as ready time and impacting performance of CPU-intensive workloads.
- Dedicating storage, using raw device mapping (RDM), and tuning I/O can help optimize storage performance for virtualized Oracle databases.
Forts and Fights Scaling Performance on Unreal Engine*Intel® Software
1. The document outlines profiling tools and techniques for optimizing game performance in Unreal Engine 4, including tools for profiling CPU, GPU, memory, and content.
2. It provides guidance on using tools like the profiler, stat commands, VTune, rendering stats, and view modes to identify optimization opportunities for issues like animation updates, materials, lighting, culling.
3. The document highlights recent improvements in Unreal Engine 4.19 like improved cloth simulation and worker thread scaling that can enhance performance.
Performance and battery life comparison: Samsung solid-state drive vs. hard d...Principled Technologies
A zippy Samsung SSD-based notebook computer can speed up your employees’ experience at work; saving a few seconds here and there over the course of the day might sound inconsequential, but can add up. Being able to take advantage of a power-saving feature such as Intel Rapid Start Technology extends battery life, which can make employees’ lives easier. Investing in Samsung SSDs for your Dell Latitude E6430 notebooks can deliver this improved speed and battery life, boosting both productivity and morale.
Comparing desktop drive performance: Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive vs. har...Principled Technologies
In our tests, the Seagate SSHD configuration outperformed all three hard drive configurations and delivered results comparable to a Seagate Client SSD configuration. It launched applications as much as 23.7 percent more quickly and delivered disk performance increases of up to 387.3 percent over the HDDs we tested.
By speeding up the tasks that users perform day in and day out, the Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive can boost productivity and let you spend more of your day working and less of it waiting—without forcing you to choose between speed and storage capacity.
Performance comparison: Samsung solid-state drive vs. hard disk drive in a De...Principled Technologies
A zippy Samsung SSD-based laptop can speed up your employees’ experience at work. Saving a few seconds here and there over the course of the day might sound inconsequential, but those seconds can add up. We found that the Dell Latitude E7440 with a 512GB Samsung PM851 SSD outperformed the same system with an HDD in both performance and battery life. Investing in Samsung SSDs for your Dell Latitude 14 7000 Series laptops can boost both employee productivity and morale. As SSDs continue to evolve, employees will likely be able to benefit from the performance advantages of SSDs without sacrificing storage space.
For more info on the Dell Latitude 14 7000 Series laptop, visit www.dell.com/us/business/p/latitude-e7440-ultrabook/fs?pf=v. To learn about the SSD options that Dell offers, visit www.dell.com/business/ssd.
For more info on Samsung SSD technology, visit www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/product/flash-ssd/overview.
http://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/Latitude_14_7000_SamsungSSD_0115.pdf
Accelerate Game Development and Enhance Game Experience with Intel® Optane™ T...Intel® Software
The document discusses findings from using Intel Optane technology for game development. It describes how Optane SSDs improved performance by allowing for faster and more efficient parallel processing, multithreading, and streaming of large files during gameplay. Developers saw benefits like faster loading times, smoother streaming, and more efficient exporting and copying of large files and datasets. Rendering a fluid dynamics simulation with over 1 billion particles was accelerated from 17 hours to 6.3 hours by using an Optane SSD.
The document summarizes Intel's new Solid-State Drive Data Center Family for PCIe. It provides an overview of Intel's SSD product families for different market segments. It then focuses on the new Data Center Family for PCIe, highlighting its native PCIe interface, performance benefits over SAS/SATA, endurance, reliability features, and product lineup. Finally, it lists upcoming events where Intel will promote the new data center SSD family.
This document discusses optimizing Oracle databases that run on VMware virtual machines. It covers VMware's memory, CPU, and I/O resource management and provides recommendations for configuration. Key points include using memory reservations to avoid swapping, allocating enough vCPUs while avoiding overprovisioning, dedicating storage and enabling Storage I/O Control for I/O performance. Oracle RAC support on VMware requires Oracle 11.2.0.2 or higher.
Optimize oracle on VMware (April 2011)Guy Harrison
- Virtualizing Oracle databases on VMware ESX requires careful configuration and monitoring of memory, CPU, and I/O resources to avoid performance issues.
- ESX uses memory overcommitment and techniques like ballooning and swapping to manage physical memory across VMs, which can cause problems if they page Oracle memory like the SGA.
- Multiple virtual CPUs on a VM must wait to be scheduled on the physical CPUs, showing up as ready time and impacting performance of CPU-intensive workloads.
- Dedicating storage, using raw device mapping (RDM), and tuning I/O can help optimize storage performance for virtualized Oracle databases.
Forts and Fights Scaling Performance on Unreal Engine*Intel® Software
1. The document outlines profiling tools and techniques for optimizing game performance in Unreal Engine 4, including tools for profiling CPU, GPU, memory, and content.
2. It provides guidance on using tools like the profiler, stat commands, VTune, rendering stats, and view modes to identify optimization opportunities for issues like animation updates, materials, lighting, culling.
3. The document highlights recent improvements in Unreal Engine 4.19 like improved cloth simulation and worker thread scaling that can enhance performance.
This document provides release notes for Intel Turbo Memory version 1.5.0.1013. It describes supported operating systems and hardware, behavioral considerations, feature sets, issues fixed and known issues in this release. The document provides guidance on power policies, resume time measurement, ReadyBoost status, NVCACHE drive initialization, and upgrading or replacing Intel Turbo Memory.
World of Tanks* 1.0+: Enriching Gamers Experience with Multicore Optimized Ph...Intel® Software
World of Tanks has been optimized for modern multicore CPUs and enriched with improved graphics and physics. The game now uses Threading Building Blocks for multithreaded rendering and physics simulations like destructions and tank treads. Destructions use Havok for high quality simulation of object destruction across CPU cores. The improved tank treads use a spring chain simulation for realistic shapes and collisions with the environment. Concurrent rendering separates work into command lists across subsystems and a separate thread handles graphics API calls.
Reimagining HPC Compute and Storage Architecture with Intel Optane Technologyinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the DDN User Group at SC19, Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel presents: Reimagining HPC Compute and Storage Architecture with Intel Optane Technology.
"In the face of unrelenting data growth, rising numbers of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are memory bound. Caught between the high cost and limited capacity of DRAM and the lower performance of 3D NAND SSDs, HPC users increasingly find that despite workarounds, they’re unable to keep pace with skyrocketing data volumes and increasingly complex challenges. Intel Optane technology is designed to address these challenges. Available as Intel Optane DC persistent memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives (Intel Optane SSDs), this technology closes the capacity, cost, and performance gaps between DRAM and 3D NAND SSDs, providing opportunities to advance data-intensive workloads while increasing uptime and flexibility in the HPC data center."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ljl
Learn more: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/technology-briefs/what-is-optane-technology-brief.pdf
and
https://www.ddn.com/company/events/user-group-sc/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
0901 Improving The Mobile Experience With Solid State Drives Pptguest4fc853
Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to understand user benefits and enterprise impacts. Initial testing shows SSDs provide significantly faster performance, lower energy use extending battery life, and potential lower support costs compared to hard disk drives. Based on these results and expected reliability improvements, Intel sees SSDs as a logical next step to improve mobile computing experiences.
This document provides a 10 step guide to configure hardware RAID on Dell PowerEdge servers using the PERC 6/i integrated BIOS configuration utility, including how to add physical disks, create a new virtual disk with RAID 5, set basic and advanced settings, and view the new disk group and virtual disk properties. It also includes screenshots of each step of the process to configure RAID on Dell servers.
The document describes the specifications and features of the PowerColor PCS+ HD7870 graphics card. It has a 28nm GCN architecture with 1000MHz core speed and 1225MHz memory. It features a professional cooling system with a 92mm fan and heat pipe design that keeps the card running cooler and quieter than competitors. Benchmarks show it performs faster than the GTX560Ti and HD7850, with overclocking headroom. Reviews praise its performance, cooling, and value.
Implementing Flash Storage for SQL Server from ViridentVirident
Performance, requirements, implications of Flash storage solutions for SQL server deployment.
Visit http://www.virident.com/solutions/ms-sql-server/ for flash storage solutions for SQL server.
This document provides a detailed description of the Gluster Storage Platform installation process. For demonstration purposes this guide will detail how to install and configure a two-node storage cluster. It also outlines how to create a storage volume and mount on clients.
This document provides instructions for installing a 32-bit Linux system from a USB flash drive or CD/DVD on ASUSTeK computer systems. It describes cloning a storage device by booting from a USB flash drive or CD/DVD containing a disk image. The procedure for USB cloning involves formatting the flash drive, copying cloning software and disk image files, and making the flash drive bootable. For CD/DVD cloning, the process involves burning the ISO image file to disc and booting from it to install the system. Detailed steps are outlined for hardware requirements, software used, and cloning procedures.
This document discusses testing the capabilities of virtual CPUs in a VMware ESX Server 2.5.1 environment running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 front-end services. Dell engineers configured ESX Server on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server connected to a Dell/EMC CX300 storage area network. Two virtual machines running Windows 2003 Server were created with 1 VCPU and 3.6GB RAM each to test Exchange 2003 front-end protocols like SMTP and Outlook Web Access under varying workloads. The document focuses on exploring virtual CPU resource management options in ESX Server and how they can provide flexibility and optimize resource utilization for Internet mail scenarios.
This "how-to" slideshare presentation outlines the Gluster Storage Platform installation process. For demonstration purposes we'll show you how to install and configure a two-node storage cluster.
Intel 8th Core G Series with Radeon Vega M Low Hong Chuan
The document discusses 8th generation Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M graphics. It provides an overview of the new processors and their positioning for gaming, content creation, and VR/MR. It highlights key features like Intel EMIB technology, HBM2 memory, and dynamic power sharing. Performance benchmarks show improvements over 3-year-old systems for gaming, productivity and content creation workloads. Innovative thin and light desktop designs are also discussed.
MSI overclocking motherboards have a long history. We continue to improve our overclocking motherboards with the feedback of world class overclockers. Our X99 OC motherboards are built on the DNA of our successful and award winning Z97 OC motherboards.
The document provides an overview and guide to overclocking the Intel X79 platform. It describes the X79 system architecture including the CPU ratio, base clock, memory ratio, and BIOS overclocking items. It offers tips on overclocking the CPU core speed, base clock, and memory speed. It also discusses useful MSI overclocking functions and provides an overclocking setting reference table. The conclusion emphasizes ensuring proper cooling is used when overclocking X79 CPUs due to their high thermal output.
This document provides an overview of Intel's 2012 Desktop responsiveness technologies, including Intel Smart Response Technology, Intel Rapid Start Technology, and Intel Smart Connect Technology. It details the system requirements and installation procedures for each technology. The key requirements are a 3rd/2nd generation Intel Core Processor, Windows 7, and a dedicated SSD of at least 20GB for Smart Response and Rapid Start.
This document provides gaming PC build recommendations for three budget levels for the month of June 2012. It includes a $529 build aimed at medium-high settings at 1080p resolution. This build features an Intel i3-2120 processor, ASUS P8H61-M LX PLUS motherboard, PowerColor Radeon HD6850 graphics card, 8GB of Corsair RAM, a 500GB Western Digital hard drive, and Cooler Master 500W power supply. Upgrade suggestions are also provided, such as an Intel i5 processor or GeForce GTX 560 graphics card. An overview of each component is given, highlighting specifications and performance.
The document discusses factors to consider when looking for the best laptop value, including affordability, specifications for gaming and office uses, and pros and cons of different types. It then provides specifications and evaluations of laptops from various brands such as Acer, Dell, HP, LG, Mac, Samsung, Sony, and others. The Samsung RC410 is highlighted as one of the best values due to its affordable price of $999, 500GB HDD, battery life of 4-6 hours, light weight, 1GB graphic card, and anti-reflective HD LED display.
MSI produces several X299 motherboard models for Intel's high-end desktop platform, including the enthusiast-oriented X299 GAMING M7 ACK and performance-focused X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC. These boards feature 10-phase power delivery, DDR4 overclocking support, multiple M.2 slots with heating solutions, USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectivity, and audio and networking features. MSI's software suite provides tools for overclocking and system monitoring.
The document discusses component selections for creating a high-performance gaming desktop. It recommends an Intel Core i9 processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, Logitech gaming mouse and keyboard, an ASUS motherboard, and a 60TB Seagate SSD hard drive. It emphasizes choosing components based on specifications like core count, memory bandwidth, and transfer speeds to optimize the desktop for gaming performance.
Intel and DataStax: 3D XPoint and NVME Technology Cassandra Storage ComparisonDataStax Academy
Does your choice of storage really matter in a Cassandra deployment? Intel and Datastax engineers will discuss results of recent performance testing on a variety of storage devices including classic spinning media, SATA SSD’s and NVMe SSD’s. Session will include an overview of the various storage types, and technology trends. Next we will discuss our recent testing and look at some preliminary results. Even if you are only at the early stages of considering a Cassandra deployment, fully understanding the impact storage choices have on your results can be critical to your projects success.
Windows evolved over several decades from 1982 to the present, starting as Windows 1.0 in 1982 and progressing through versions that improved graphics, speed, and usability. Key versions included Windows 3.0 in 1990 which added advanced graphics and performance improvements, Windows 95 in 1995 which added built-in Internet support and Plug and Play capabilities, and Windows XP in 2001 which offered a simplified and stable user experience. The most recent versions of Windows, including Windows 8, were designed for both traditional desktops and tablets.
The document provides a history of the Windows operating system from its origins in 1975 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Microsoft to focus on developing an operating system, to the present-day Windows 10. It describes the early non-graphical MS-DOS system and the introductions of early Windows versions that made computers easier to use through graphical interfaces and mouse control. It outlines increased capabilities and security improvements in subsequent Windows releases that expanded personal and business use of computers through the 1990s-2000s. The latest Windows 10 aims to provide an interface that works across all device types with new features like the virtual desktop, Cortana assistant, and Spartan web browser.
This document provides release notes for Intel Turbo Memory version 1.5.0.1013. It describes supported operating systems and hardware, behavioral considerations, feature sets, issues fixed and known issues in this release. The document provides guidance on power policies, resume time measurement, ReadyBoost status, NVCACHE drive initialization, and upgrading or replacing Intel Turbo Memory.
World of Tanks* 1.0+: Enriching Gamers Experience with Multicore Optimized Ph...Intel® Software
World of Tanks has been optimized for modern multicore CPUs and enriched with improved graphics and physics. The game now uses Threading Building Blocks for multithreaded rendering and physics simulations like destructions and tank treads. Destructions use Havok for high quality simulation of object destruction across CPU cores. The improved tank treads use a spring chain simulation for realistic shapes and collisions with the environment. Concurrent rendering separates work into command lists across subsystems and a separate thread handles graphics API calls.
Reimagining HPC Compute and Storage Architecture with Intel Optane Technologyinside-BigData.com
In this deck from the DDN User Group at SC19, Andrey Kudryavtsev from Intel presents: Reimagining HPC Compute and Storage Architecture with Intel Optane Technology.
"In the face of unrelenting data growth, rising numbers of high-performance computing (HPC) workloads are memory bound. Caught between the high cost and limited capacity of DRAM and the lower performance of 3D NAND SSDs, HPC users increasingly find that despite workarounds, they’re unable to keep pace with skyrocketing data volumes and increasingly complex challenges. Intel Optane technology is designed to address these challenges. Available as Intel Optane DC persistent memory and Intel Optane DC Solid State Drives (Intel Optane SSDs), this technology closes the capacity, cost, and performance gaps between DRAM and 3D NAND SSDs, providing opportunities to advance data-intensive workloads while increasing uptime and flexibility in the HPC data center."
Watch the video: https://wp.me/p3RLHQ-ljl
Learn more: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/technology-briefs/what-is-optane-technology-brief.pdf
and
https://www.ddn.com/company/events/user-group-sc/
Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter
0901 Improving The Mobile Experience With Solid State Drives Pptguest4fc853
Intel IT is evaluating solid-state drive (SSD) technology to understand user benefits and enterprise impacts. Initial testing shows SSDs provide significantly faster performance, lower energy use extending battery life, and potential lower support costs compared to hard disk drives. Based on these results and expected reliability improvements, Intel sees SSDs as a logical next step to improve mobile computing experiences.
This document provides a 10 step guide to configure hardware RAID on Dell PowerEdge servers using the PERC 6/i integrated BIOS configuration utility, including how to add physical disks, create a new virtual disk with RAID 5, set basic and advanced settings, and view the new disk group and virtual disk properties. It also includes screenshots of each step of the process to configure RAID on Dell servers.
The document describes the specifications and features of the PowerColor PCS+ HD7870 graphics card. It has a 28nm GCN architecture with 1000MHz core speed and 1225MHz memory. It features a professional cooling system with a 92mm fan and heat pipe design that keeps the card running cooler and quieter than competitors. Benchmarks show it performs faster than the GTX560Ti and HD7850, with overclocking headroom. Reviews praise its performance, cooling, and value.
Implementing Flash Storage for SQL Server from ViridentVirident
Performance, requirements, implications of Flash storage solutions for SQL server deployment.
Visit http://www.virident.com/solutions/ms-sql-server/ for flash storage solutions for SQL server.
This document provides a detailed description of the Gluster Storage Platform installation process. For demonstration purposes this guide will detail how to install and configure a two-node storage cluster. It also outlines how to create a storage volume and mount on clients.
This document provides instructions for installing a 32-bit Linux system from a USB flash drive or CD/DVD on ASUSTeK computer systems. It describes cloning a storage device by booting from a USB flash drive or CD/DVD containing a disk image. The procedure for USB cloning involves formatting the flash drive, copying cloning software and disk image files, and making the flash drive bootable. For CD/DVD cloning, the process involves burning the ISO image file to disc and booting from it to install the system. Detailed steps are outlined for hardware requirements, software used, and cloning procedures.
This document discusses testing the capabilities of virtual CPUs in a VMware ESX Server 2.5.1 environment running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 front-end services. Dell engineers configured ESX Server on a Dell PowerEdge 2850 server connected to a Dell/EMC CX300 storage area network. Two virtual machines running Windows 2003 Server were created with 1 VCPU and 3.6GB RAM each to test Exchange 2003 front-end protocols like SMTP and Outlook Web Access under varying workloads. The document focuses on exploring virtual CPU resource management options in ESX Server and how they can provide flexibility and optimize resource utilization for Internet mail scenarios.
This "how-to" slideshare presentation outlines the Gluster Storage Platform installation process. For demonstration purposes we'll show you how to install and configure a two-node storage cluster.
Intel 8th Core G Series with Radeon Vega M Low Hong Chuan
The document discusses 8th generation Intel Core processors with Radeon RX Vega M graphics. It provides an overview of the new processors and their positioning for gaming, content creation, and VR/MR. It highlights key features like Intel EMIB technology, HBM2 memory, and dynamic power sharing. Performance benchmarks show improvements over 3-year-old systems for gaming, productivity and content creation workloads. Innovative thin and light desktop designs are also discussed.
MSI overclocking motherboards have a long history. We continue to improve our overclocking motherboards with the feedback of world class overclockers. Our X99 OC motherboards are built on the DNA of our successful and award winning Z97 OC motherboards.
The document provides an overview and guide to overclocking the Intel X79 platform. It describes the X79 system architecture including the CPU ratio, base clock, memory ratio, and BIOS overclocking items. It offers tips on overclocking the CPU core speed, base clock, and memory speed. It also discusses useful MSI overclocking functions and provides an overclocking setting reference table. The conclusion emphasizes ensuring proper cooling is used when overclocking X79 CPUs due to their high thermal output.
This document provides an overview of Intel's 2012 Desktop responsiveness technologies, including Intel Smart Response Technology, Intel Rapid Start Technology, and Intel Smart Connect Technology. It details the system requirements and installation procedures for each technology. The key requirements are a 3rd/2nd generation Intel Core Processor, Windows 7, and a dedicated SSD of at least 20GB for Smart Response and Rapid Start.
This document provides gaming PC build recommendations for three budget levels for the month of June 2012. It includes a $529 build aimed at medium-high settings at 1080p resolution. This build features an Intel i3-2120 processor, ASUS P8H61-M LX PLUS motherboard, PowerColor Radeon HD6850 graphics card, 8GB of Corsair RAM, a 500GB Western Digital hard drive, and Cooler Master 500W power supply. Upgrade suggestions are also provided, such as an Intel i5 processor or GeForce GTX 560 graphics card. An overview of each component is given, highlighting specifications and performance.
The document discusses factors to consider when looking for the best laptop value, including affordability, specifications for gaming and office uses, and pros and cons of different types. It then provides specifications and evaluations of laptops from various brands such as Acer, Dell, HP, LG, Mac, Samsung, Sony, and others. The Samsung RC410 is highlighted as one of the best values due to its affordable price of $999, 500GB HDD, battery life of 4-6 hours, light weight, 1GB graphic card, and anti-reflective HD LED display.
MSI produces several X299 motherboard models for Intel's high-end desktop platform, including the enthusiast-oriented X299 GAMING M7 ACK and performance-focused X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC. These boards feature 10-phase power delivery, DDR4 overclocking support, multiple M.2 slots with heating solutions, USB 3.1 Gen 2 connectivity, and audio and networking features. MSI's software suite provides tools for overclocking and system monitoring.
The document discusses component selections for creating a high-performance gaming desktop. It recommends an Intel Core i9 processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti graphics card, 32GB of DDR4 RAM, Logitech gaming mouse and keyboard, an ASUS motherboard, and a 60TB Seagate SSD hard drive. It emphasizes choosing components based on specifications like core count, memory bandwidth, and transfer speeds to optimize the desktop for gaming performance.
Intel and DataStax: 3D XPoint and NVME Technology Cassandra Storage ComparisonDataStax Academy
Does your choice of storage really matter in a Cassandra deployment? Intel and Datastax engineers will discuss results of recent performance testing on a variety of storage devices including classic spinning media, SATA SSD’s and NVMe SSD’s. Session will include an overview of the various storage types, and technology trends. Next we will discuss our recent testing and look at some preliminary results. Even if you are only at the early stages of considering a Cassandra deployment, fully understanding the impact storage choices have on your results can be critical to your projects success.
Windows evolved over several decades from 1982 to the present, starting as Windows 1.0 in 1982 and progressing through versions that improved graphics, speed, and usability. Key versions included Windows 3.0 in 1990 which added advanced graphics and performance improvements, Windows 95 in 1995 which added built-in Internet support and Plug and Play capabilities, and Windows XP in 2001 which offered a simplified and stable user experience. The most recent versions of Windows, including Windows 8, were designed for both traditional desktops and tablets.
The document provides a history of the Windows operating system from its origins in 1975 when Bill Gates and Paul Allen formed Microsoft to focus on developing an operating system, to the present-day Windows 10. It describes the early non-graphical MS-DOS system and the introductions of early Windows versions that made computers easier to use through graphical interfaces and mouse control. It outlines increased capabilities and security improvements in subsequent Windows releases that expanded personal and business use of computers through the 1990s-2000s. The latest Windows 10 aims to provide an interface that works across all device types with new features like the virtual desktop, Cortana assistant, and Spartan web browser.
GreenDroid is a 45 nm multicore research prototype that targets the Android mobile phone software stack and can execute general-purpose mobile programs with 11 times less energy than today’s most energy-efficient designs, at similar or better levels of performance. It does this through the use of 100 or so automatically generated, highly specialized, energy-reducing cores, called conservation cores or c-cores. GreenDroid will serve as a prototype for mobile application processors in the next five to ten years.
So greendroid is always better than android.
GREENDROID: A SOLUTION TO THE BATTERY PROBLEM OF SMARTPHONEpihu281
The Green Droid mobile application processor prototype targets the Android mobile software stack. It uses specialized energy-efficient cores called conservation cores (c-cores) to execute frequently used portions of application code, accounting for 95% of execution time. The c-cores reduce energy consumption by 56% by removing unnecessary structures like instruction fetch and decode units. Additional 35% savings comes from specializing the c-core data path. This allows average per-instruction energy to drop from 91 pJ to just 8 pJ. The Green Droid is estimated to reduce processor energy consumption by 91% for targeted code and provide an overall 7.4x energy savings.
The document discusses the GreenDroid mobile application processor, which uses specialized "conservation cores" (c-cores) to execute frequently used portions of application code and reduce energy consumption by 11x compared to conventional designs. It achieves this by filling the "dark silicon" areas of chips with these automatically generated c-cores. The c-cores are highly efficient because they remove unnecessary structures like instruction decoding. This approach converts unused silicon into significant energy savings while maintaining performance.
Greendroid is a proposed heterogeneous tiled architecture for smartphone application processors that aims to improve energy efficiency. It combines general purpose and application specific cores called "C-cores" that are specialized to efficiently handle specific tasks. C-cores can achieve up to an 18x improvement in energy efficiency over general purpose cores. The Greendroid architecture leverages inactive processor components to improve performance and dramatically reduce energy consumption through the use of these conservation cores.
Laptop drive performance comparison: Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive vs. har...Principled Technologies
Across the three laptop systems we tested, the Seagate SSHD configuration outperformed both hard drive configurations. It booted and launched applications as much as 31.8 percent more quickly and delivered general performance increases of up to 503.3 percent.
By speeding up the tasks that users perform day in and day out, the Seagate Solid State Hybrid Drive can boost productivity and let you spend more of your day working and less of it waiting.
Deep Dive On Intel Optane SSDs And New Server PlatformsNEXTtour
The document compares the performance of various storage technologies including Intel Optane SSDs, Intel 3D NAND SSDs, and traditional NAND SSDs. It provides data on bandwidth and latency for different SSDs under various workloads. For example, it shows that Intel Optane SSDs provide up to 10x lower latency and 100x better quality of service than NAND SSDs. The document also discusses how these storage technologies can improve the performance, efficiency, and scalability of servers and data center platforms.
Ceph Day Shanghai - SSD/NVM Technology Boosting Ceph Performance Ceph Community
This document discusses using SSDs and emerging non-volatile memory technologies like 3D XPoint to boost performance of Ceph storage clusters. It outlines how SSDs can be used as journals and caches to significantly increase throughput and reduce latency compared to HDD-only clusters. A case study from Yahoo showed that using Intel NVMe SSDs with caching software delivered over 2x throughput and half the latency with only 5% of data cached. Future technologies like 3D NAND and 3D XPoint will allow building higher performance, higher capacity SSDs that could extend the use of Ceph.
Red Hat Storage Day Atlanta - Designing Ceph Clusters Using Intel-Based Hardw...Red_Hat_Storage
This document discusses the need for storage modernization driven by trends like mobile, social media, IoT and big data. It outlines how scale-out architectures using open source Ceph software can help meet this need more cost effectively than traditional scale-up storage. Specific optimizations for IOPS, throughput and capacity are described. Intel is presented as helping advance the industry through open source contributions and optimized platforms, software and SSD technologies. Real-world examples are given showing the wide performance range Ceph can provide.
Hands-on Lab: How to Unleash Your Storage Performance by Using NVM Express™ B...Odinot Stanislas
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Voici un excellent document qui explique étape après étape comment installer, monitorer et surtout correctement benchmarker ses SSD PCIe/NVMe (pas si simple que ça). Autre élément clé : comment analyser la charge I/O de véritables applications? Combien d'IOPS, en read, en write, quelle bande passante et surtout quel impact sur la durée de vie des SSD? Bref à mettre en toute les mains, et un merci à mon collègue Andrey Kudryavtsev.
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An excellent content which describe step by step how to install, monitor and benchmark PCIe/NVMe SSD (many trick not so simple). Another key learning: how to measure real I/O activities on a real workload? How many R/W IOPS, block size, throughtput, and finally what's the impact on SSD endurance and (real)life? A must read, and a huge thanks to my colleague Andrey Kudryavtsev.
Auteurs/Authors:
Andrey Kudryavtsev, SSD Solution Architect, Intel Corporation
Zhdan Bybin, Application Engineer, Intel Corporation
When compared to the no-cache solution results, the Intel solution increased database performance in our tests by up to 65 percent using a real-world database workload. Additionally, the Intel solution provided 7 percent greater database performance when compared to the competing solution. This means that with the Intel solution, administrators can give their databases an extra boost to improve performance for end users, especially when RAM upgrades and additional storage are no longer feasible options.
Yashi dealer meeting settembre 2016 tecnologie xeon intel italiaYashi Italia
The document discusses new infrastructure solutions for evolving needs, including private cloud, data analytics, performance improvement, and energy efficiency. It describes application-driven allocation of orchestrated compute, network, and storage resources that can be automatically provisioned and managed. The document also covers customized Intel hardware and software optimizations for network applications, including Intel QuickAssist technology, Intel Ethernet controllers, and reliability profiles.
Better email response time using Microsoft Exchange 2013 with the Dell PowerE...Principled Technologies
In a market where servers can seem the same at a glance, look for the differences. Your email infrastructure choices will directly affect end-user experience for your UC&C applications. Equipped with more drives in its extra drive slots, the Dell PowerEdge R730xd delivered 31.7 percent better Exchange 2013 response times than a similarly configured, current-generation Supermicro server did. With better Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 response times, the PowerEdge R730xd can help deliver an improved experience for users in your organization.
Optimizing Apache Spark Throughput Using Intel Optane and Intel Memory Drive...Databricks
Apache Spark is a popular data processing engine designed to execute advanced analytics on very large data sets which are common in today’s enterprise use cases. To enable Spark’s high performance for different workloads (e.g. machine-learning applications), in-memory data storage capabilities are built right in.
However, Spark’s in-memory capabilities are limited by the memory available in the server; it is common for computing resources to be idle during the execution of a Spark job, even though the system’s memory is saturated. To mitigate this limitation, Spark’s distributed architecture can run on a cluster of nodes, thus taking advantage of the memory available across all nodes. While employing additional nodes would solve the server DRAM capacity problem, it does so at an increased cost. Intel(R) Memory Drive Technology is a software-defned memory (SDM) technology, which combined with an Intel(R) Optane(TM) SSD, expands the system’s memory.
This combination of Intel(R) Optane(TM) SSD with Intel Memory Drive Technology alleviates those memory limitations that are inherent to Spark, by making more memory available to the operating system and to Spark jobs, transparently.
The document discusses Windows 7 enhancements that improve the performance and endurance of solid-state drives (SSDs). It outlines how Windows 7 identifies SSDs differently from HDDs to optimize defragmentation and trim features. It also discusses the importance of aligning the NTFS partition to the SSD geometry. Proposed Windows 7 logo requirements related to SSDs are presented. Challenges like varying SSD performance and ensuring data retention are discussed.
Today at Hot Chips 2019, Intel engineers presented technical details on hybrid chip packaging technology, Intel Optane DC persistent memory and chiplet technology for optical I/O.
"To get to a future state of ‘AI everywhere,’ we’ll need to address the crush of data being generated and ensure enterprises are empowered to make efficient use of their data, processing it where it’s collected when it makes sense and making smarter use of their upstream resources," said Naveen Rao, Intel vice president and GM, Artificial Intelligence Products Group. "Data centers and the cloud need to have access to performant and scalable general purpose computing and specialized acceleration for complex AI applications. In this future vision of AI everywhere, a holistic approach is needed—from hardware to software to applications.”
Learn more: https://www.intel.ai/accelerating-for-ai/?elq_cid=1192980
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Red hat Storage Day LA - Designing Ceph Clusters Using Intel-Based HardwareRed_Hat_Storage
This document discusses how data growth driven by mobile, social media, IoT, and big data/cloud is requiring a fundamental shift in storage cost structures from scale-up to scale-out architectures. It provides an overview of key storage technologies and workloads driving public cloud storage, and how Ceph can help deliver on the promise of the cloud by providing next generation storage architectures with flash to enable new capabilities in small footprints. It also illustrates the wide performance range Ceph can provide for different workloads and hardware configurations.
Accelerating Cassandra Workloads on Ceph with All-Flash PCIE SSDSCeph Community
This document summarizes the performance of an all-NVMe Ceph cluster using Intel P3700 NVMe SSDs. Key results include achieving over 1.35 million 4K random read IOPS and 171K 4K random write IOPS with sub-millisecond latency. Partitioning the NVMe drives into multiple OSDs improved performance and CPU utilization compared to a single OSD per drive. The cluster also demonstrated over 5GB/s of sequential bandwidth.
This document summarizes the configuration of a Unity XT 380 storage system with the following specifications:
- It has a total raw capacity of 82.22TB spread across 21 drives including 400GB flash, 600GB SAS, and 12TB NL-SAS drives in a RAID 5+1 and RAID 6+2 configuration for a total usable capacity of 45.62TB.
- The system has a maximum throughput of 19957 IOPS and uses 80% read/20% write workload.
- Additional details provided include power consumption, environmental specifications, I/O configuration using 10GbE, and software suites included.
Presentation to dm as november 2007 with dynamic provisioning informationxKinAnx
This document provides updates on the ST9900 product line and program from Ken Ow-Wing. It includes details on microcode releases, new features like dynamic provisioning support, and performance enhancements. It also discusses tools now available, pre-sales performance assistance, and competition from EMC and IBM storage arrays.
The document discusses AMD's technologies for improving energy efficiency and performance in servers and graphics processors. It highlights AMD's Opteron and FireStream processors, which provide high performance while using less power than competitors. AMD is focusing on innovations like its CoolCore technology, 45nm manufacturing process, and support for OpenCL to enhance efficiency and acceleration capabilities across its product lines.
Boosting virtualization performance with Intel SSD DC Series P3600 NVMe SSDs ...Principled Technologies
When it comes time to make your server purchase or if you’re looking for an easy way to boost performance of existing infrastructure, consider upgrading your server’s internal storage. As our hands-on tests with a Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 environment running VMware Virtual SAN proved, Intel SSD DC P3600 Series NVMe SSDs could increase virtualized mixed-workload performance by as much as 59.9 percent compared to SATA SSDs while allowing you to run a large additional number of VMs. When you improve performance for your virtualized workloads, your employees and customers will benefit. By increasing performance with Intel NVMe SSDs on your Dell EMC PowerEdge R630 servers, you can potentially slash wait times and do more work on your servers without having to expand your infrastructure with additional storage arrays, which can translate to happier users and a more efficient infrastructure.
hbaseconasia2019 HBase Bucket Cache on Persistent MemoryMichael Stack
Anoop Sam John, Ramkrishna S Vasudevan, and Xu Kai of Intel
Track 1: Internals
https://open.mi.com/conference/hbasecon-asia-2019
THE COMMUNITY EVENT FOR APACHE HBASE™
July 20th, 2019 - Sheraton Hotel, Beijing, China
https://hbase.apache.org/hbaseconasia-2019/
Q1 Memory Fabric Forum: Using CXL with AI Applications - Steve Scargall.pptxMemory Fabric Forum
MemVerge product manager and software architect Steve Scargall discusses key factors related to the use of CXL with AI apps including, memory expansion form factors, latency and bandwidth memory placement strategies, RDBMS investigation and results, vector database investigation, and results understanding your application behavior.
Similar to Alienware X51 performance comparison: Samsung SSD vs. traditional hard drive (20)
Help skilled workers succeed with Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme ...Principled Technologies
Instead of equipping consumer-grade tablets with rugged cases
Conclusion
In our hands-on testing, the Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme Tablets showed that they are better equipped to help skilled workers than consumer-grade Apple iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 tablets in multiple ways. They provide more built-in capabilities and features than the consumer-grade tablets we tested. And, while they were more expensive than the rugged-case fortified consumer-grade options we tested, their rugged claims were more than skin deep.
In our performance and durability tests, the Dell Latitude 7030 and 7230 Rugged Extreme Tablets performed better in demanding manufacturing, logistics, and field service environments than consumer-grade tablets with rugged cases. Both Rugged Extreme Tablets, with their greater thermal range, suffered less performance degradation in extreme temperatures, never failed and were merely scuffed after 26 hard drops, survived a 10 minute drenching with no ill effects, and were easier to view in direct sunlight than Apple iPad Pro and Samsung Galaxy Tab S9 tablets.
Bring ideas to life with the HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation - InfographicPrincipled Technologies
We compared CPU performance and noise output of an HP Z2 G9 Tower Workstation in High Performance Mode to a similarly configured Dell Precision 3660 Tower Workstation in its out-of-box performance mode
Investing in GenAI: Cost‑benefit analysis of Dell on‑premises deployments vs....Principled Technologies
Conclusion
Diving into the world of GenAI has the potential to yield a great many benefits for your organization, but it first requires consideration for how best to implement those GenAI workloads. Whether your AI goals are to create a chatbot for online visitors, generate marketing materials, aid troubleshooting, or something else, implementing an AI solution requires careful planning and decision-making. A major decision is whether to host GenAI in the cloud or keep your data on premises. Traditional on-premises solutions can provide superior security and control, a substantial concern when dealing with large amounts of potentially sensitive data. But will supporting a GenAI solution on site be a drain on an organization’s IT budget?
In our research, we found that the value proposition is just the opposite: Hosting GenAI workloads on premises, either in a traditional Dell solution or using a managed Dell APEX pay-per-use solution, could significantly lower your GenAI costs over 3 years compared to hosting these workloads in the cloud. In fact, we found that a comparable AWS SageMaker solution would cost up to 3.8 times as much and an Azure ML solution would cost up to 3.6 times as much as GenAI on a Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. These results show that organizations looking to implement GenAI and reap the business benefits to come can find many advantages in an on-premises Dell solution, whether they opt to purchase and manage it themselves or choose a subscription-based Dell APEX pay-per-use solution. Choosing an on-premises Dell solution could save your organization significantly over hosting GenAI in the cloud, while giving you control over the security and privacy of your data as well as any updates and changes to the environment, and while ensuring your environment is managed consistently.
Workstations powered by Intel can play a vital role in CPU-intensive AI devel...Principled Technologies
In three AI development workflows, Intel processor-powered workstations delivered strong performance, without using their GPUs, making them a good choice for this part of the AI process
Conclusion
We executed three AI development workflows on tower workstations and mobile workstations from three vendors, with each workflow utilizing only the Intel CPU cores, and found that these platforms were suitable for carrying out various AI tasks. For two of the workflows, we learned that completing the tasks on the tower workstations took roughly half as much time as on the mobile workstations. This supports the idea that the tower workstations would be appropriate for a development environment for more complex models with a greater volume of data and that the mobile workstations would be well-suited for data scientists fine-tuning simpler models. In the third workflow, we explored tower workstation performance with different precision levels and learned that using 16-bit floating point precision allowed the workstations to execute the workflow in less time and also reduced memory usage dramatically. For all three AI workflows we executed, we consider the time the workstations needed to complete the tasks to be acceptable, and believe that these workstations can be appropriate, cost-effective choices for these kinds of activities.
Enable security features with no impact to OLTP performance with Dell PowerEd...Principled Technologies
Get comparable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance with or without enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization - Encrypted State
Conclusion
You’ve likely already implemented many security measures for your servers, which may include physical security for the data center, hardware-level security, and software-level security. With the cost of data breaches high and still growing, however, wise IT teams will consider what additional security measures they may be able to implement.
AMD SME and SEV-ES are technologies that are already available within your AMD processor-powered 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers—and in our testing, we saw that they can offer extra layers of security without affecting performance. We compared the online transaction processing performance of a Dell PowerEdge R7625 server, powered by AMD EPYC 9274F processors, with and without these two security features enabled. We found that enabling AMD Secure Memory Encryption and Secure Encrypted Virtualization-Encrypted State did not impact performance at all.
If your team is assessing areas where you might be able to enhance security—without paying a large performance cost—consider enabling AME SME and AMD SEV-ES in your Dell PowerEdge servers.
Improving energy efficiency in the data center: Endure higher temperatures wi...Principled Technologies
In high-temperature test scenarios, a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server continued running an intensive workload without component warnings or failures, while a Supermicro SYS‑621C-TN12R server failed
Conclusion: Remain resilient in high temperatures with the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 to help increase efficiency
Increasing your data center’s temperature can help your organization make strides in energy efficiency and cooling cost savings. With servers that can hold up to these higher everyday temperatures—as well as high temperatures due to unforeseen circumstances—your business can continue to deliver the performance your apps and clients require.
When we ran an intensive floating-point workload on a Dell PowerEdge HS5620 and a Supermicro SYS-621CTN12R in three scenario types simulating typical operations at 25°C, a fan failure, and an HVAC malfunction, the Dell server experienced no component warnings or failures. In contrast, the Supermicro server experienced warnings in all three scenario types and experienced component failures in the latter two tests, rendering the system unusable. When we inspected and analyzed each system, we found that the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 server’s motherboard layout, fans, and chassis offered cooling design advantages.
For businesses aiming to meet sustainability goals by running hotter data centers, as well as those concerned with server cooling design, the Dell PowerEdge HS5620 is a strong contender to take on higher temperatures during day-to-day operations and unexpected malfunctions.
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a Kubernetes container-based generative AI workload effectively
Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift: An easily deployable and powe...Principled Technologies
The 4th Generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor‑powered solution deployed in less than two hours and ran a generative AI workload effectively
Conclusion
The appeal of incorporating GenAI into your organization’s operations is likely great. Getting started with an efficient solution for your next LLM workload or application can seem daunting because of the changing hardware and software landscape, but Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift powered by 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors could provide the solution you need. We started with a Dell Validated Design as a reference, and then went on to modify the deployment as necessary for our Llama 2 workload. The Dell APEX Cloud Platform for Red Hat OpenShift solution worked well for our LLM, and by using this deployment guide in conjunction with numerous Dell documents and some flexibility, you could be well on your way to innovating your next GenAI breakthrough.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)
For organizations running clusters of moderately configured, older Dell PowerEdge servers with a previous version of VCF, upgrading to better-configured modern servers can provide a significant performance boost and more.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Realize 2.1X the performance with 20% less power with AMD EPYC processor-back...Principled Technologies
Three AMD EPYC processor-based two-processor solutions outshined comparable Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based solutions by handling more Redis workload transactions and requests while consuming less power
Conclusion
Performance and energy efficiency are significant factors in processor selection for servers running data-intensive workloads, such as Redis. We compared the Redis performance and energy consumption of a server cluster in three AMD EPYC two-processor configurations against that of a server cluster in two Intel Xeon Scalable two-processor configurations. In each of our three test scenarios, the server cluster backed by AMD EPYC processors outperformed the server cluster backed by Intel Xeon Scalable processors. In addition, one of the AMD EPYC processor-based clusters consumed 20 percent less power than its Intel Xeon Scalable processor-based counterpart. Combining these measurements gave us power efficiency metrics that demonstrate how valuable AMD EPYC processor-based servers could be—you could see better performance per watt with these AMD EPYC processor-based server clusters and potentially get more from your Redis or other data intensive applications and workloads while reducing data center power costs.
Improve performance and gain room to grow by easily migrating to a modern Ope...Principled Technologies
We deployed this modern environment, then migrated database VMs from legacy servers and saw performance improvements that support consolidation
Conclusion
If your organization’s transactional databases are running on gear that is several years old, you have much to gain by upgrading to modern servers with new processors and networking components and an OpenShift environment. In our testing, a modern OpenShift environment with a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7615 servers with 4th Generation AMD EPYC processors and high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs outperformed a legacy environment with MySQL VMs running on a cluster of three Dell PowerEdge R7515 servers with 3rd Generation AMD EPYC processors and 25Gb Broadcom NICs. We also easily migrated a VM from the legacy environment to the modern environment, with only a few steps required to set up and less than ten minutes of hands-on time. The performance advantage of the modern servers would allow a company to reduce the number of servers necessary to perform a given amount of database work, thus lowering operational expenditures such as power and cooling and IT staff time for maintenance. The high-speed 100Gb Broadcom NICs in this solution also give companies better network performance and networking capacity to grow as they embrace emerging technologies such as AI that put great demands on networks.
Boost PC performance: How more available memory can improve productivityPrincipled Technologies
With more memory available, system performance of three Dell devices increased, which can translate to a better user experience
Conclusion
When your system has plenty of RAM to meet your needs, you can efficiently access the applications and data you need to finish projects and to-do lists without sacrificing time and focus. Our test results show that with more memory available, three Dell PCs delivered better performance and took less time to complete the Procyon Office Productivity benchmark. These advantages translate to users being able to complete workflows more quickly and multitask more easily. Whether you need the mobility of the Latitude 5440, the creative capabilities of the Precision 3470, or the high performance of the OptiPlex Tower Plus 7010, configuring your system with more RAM can help keep processes running smoothly, enabling you to do more without compromising performance.
Deploy with confidence: VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdg...Principled Technologies
A Principled Technologies deployment guide
Conclusion
Deploying VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 on next gen Dell PowerEdge servers brings together critical virtualization capabilities and high-performing hardware infrastructure. Relying on our hands-on experience, this deployment guide offers a comprehensive roadmap that can guide your organization through the seamless integration of advanced VMware cloud solutions with the performance and reliability of Dell PowerEdge servers. In addition to the deployment efficiency, the Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge solution delivered strong performance while running a MySQL database workload. By leveraging VMware Cloud Foundation 5.1 and PowerEdge servers, you could help your organization embrace cloud computing with confidence, potentially unlocking a new level of agility, scalability, and efficiency in your data center operations.
Upgrade your cloud infrastructure with Dell PowerEdge R760 servers and VMware...Principled Technologies
Compared to a cluster of PowerEdge R750 servers running VMware Cloud Foundation 4.5
Conclusion
If your company is struggling with underperforming infrastructure, upgrading to 16th Generation Dell PowerEdge servers running VCF 5.1 could be just what you need to handle more database throughput and reduce vSAN latencies. We found that a Dell PowerEdge R760 server cluster running VCF 5.1 processed over 78 percent more TPM and 79 percent more NOPM than a Dell PowerEdge R750 server cluster running VCF 4.5. It’s also worth noting that the PowerEdge R750 cluster bottlenecked on vSAN storage, with max write latency at 8.9ms. For reference, the PowerEdge R760 cluster clocked in at 3.8ms max write latency. This higher latency is due in part to the single disk group per host on the moderately configured PowerEdge R750 cluster, while the better-configured PowerEdge R760 cluster supported four disk groups per host. As an additional benefit to IT admins, we also found that the embedded VMware Aria Operation adapter provided useful infrastructure insights.
Based on our research using publicly available materials, it appears that Dell supports nine of the ten PC security features we investigated, HP supports six of them, and Lenovo supports three features.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Increase security, sustainability, and efficiency with robust Dell server man...Principled Technologies
Compared to the Supermicro management portfolio
Conclusion
Choosing a vendor for server purchases is about more than just the hardware platform. Decision-makers must also consider more long-term concerns, including system/data security, energy efficiency, and ease of management. These concerns make the systems management tools a vendor offers as important as the hardware.
We investigated the features and capabilities of server management tools from Dell and Supermicro, comparing Dell iDRAC9 against Supermicro IPMI for embedded server management and Dell OpenManage Enterprise and CloudIQ against Supermicro Server Manager for one-to-many device and console management and monitoring. We found that the Dell management tools provided more comprehensive security, sustainability, and management/monitoring features and capabilities than Supermicro servers did. In addition, Dell tools automated more tasks to ease server management, resulting in significant time savings for administrators versus having to do the same tasks manually with Supermicro tools.
When making a server purchase, a vendor’s associated management products are critical to protect data, support a more sustainable environment, and to ease the maintenance of systems. Our tests and research showed that the Dell management portfolio for PowerEdge servers offered more features to help organizations meet these goals than the comparable Supermicro management products.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS ...Principled Technologies
In our tests, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS outperformed similarly configured solutions from Vendor A, achieving more IOPS, better throughput, and more consistent performance on both NVMe-supported configurations and configurations backed by Elastic Block Store (EBS) alone.
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS supports a full NVMe backed configuration, but Vendor A doesn’t—its solution uses EBS for storage capacity and NVMe as an extended read cache—which means APEX Block Storage for AWS can deliver faster storage performance.
Scale up your storage with higher-performing Dell APEX Block Storage for AWSPrincipled Technologies
Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger and more consistent storage performance for better business agility than a Vendor A solution
Conclusion
Enterprises desiring the flexibility and convenience of the cloud for their block storage workloads can find fast-performing solutions with the enterprise storage features they’re used to in on-premises infrastructure by selecting Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS.
Our hands-on tests showed that compared to the Vendor A solution, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered stronger, more consistent storage performance in both NVMe-supported and EBS-backed configurations. Using NVMe-supported configurations, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS achieved 4.7x the random read IOPS and 5.1x the throughput on sequential read operations per node vs. Vendor A. In our EBS-backed comparison, Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS offered 2.2x the throughput per node on sequential read operations vs. Vendor A.
Plus, the ability to scale beyond three nodes—up to 512 storage nodes with capacity of up to 8 PBs—enables Dell APEX Block Storage for AWS to help ensure performance and capacity as your team plans for the future.
HCL Notes und Domino Lizenzkostenreduzierung in der Welt von DLAUpanagenda
Webinar Recording: https://www.panagenda.com/webinars/hcl-notes-und-domino-lizenzkostenreduzierung-in-der-welt-von-dlau/
DLAU und die Lizenzen nach dem CCB- und CCX-Modell sind für viele in der HCL-Community seit letztem Jahr ein heißes Thema. Als Notes- oder Domino-Kunde haben Sie vielleicht mit unerwartet hohen Benutzerzahlen und Lizenzgebühren zu kämpfen. Sie fragen sich vielleicht, wie diese neue Art der Lizenzierung funktioniert und welchen Nutzen sie Ihnen bringt. Vor allem wollen Sie sicherlich Ihr Budget einhalten und Kosten sparen, wo immer möglich. Das verstehen wir und wir möchten Ihnen dabei helfen!
Wir erklären Ihnen, wie Sie häufige Konfigurationsprobleme lösen können, die dazu führen können, dass mehr Benutzer gezählt werden als nötig, und wie Sie überflüssige oder ungenutzte Konten identifizieren und entfernen können, um Geld zu sparen. Es gibt auch einige Ansätze, die zu unnötigen Ausgaben führen können, z. B. wenn ein Personendokument anstelle eines Mail-Ins für geteilte Mailboxen verwendet wird. Wir zeigen Ihnen solche Fälle und deren Lösungen. Und natürlich erklären wir Ihnen das neue Lizenzmodell.
Nehmen Sie an diesem Webinar teil, bei dem HCL-Ambassador Marc Thomas und Gastredner Franz Walder Ihnen diese neue Welt näherbringen. Es vermittelt Ihnen die Tools und das Know-how, um den Überblick zu bewahren. Sie werden in der Lage sein, Ihre Kosten durch eine optimierte Domino-Konfiguration zu reduzieren und auch in Zukunft gering zu halten.
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- Wie funktionieren CCB- und CCX-Lizenzen wirklich?
- Verstehen des DLAU-Tools und wie man es am besten nutzt
- Tipps für häufige Problembereiche, wie z. B. Team-Postfächer, Funktions-/Testbenutzer usw.
- Praxisbeispiele und Best Practices zum sofortigen Umsetzen
OpenID AuthZEN Interop Read Out - AuthorizationDavid Brossard
During Identiverse 2024 and EIC 2024, members of the OpenID AuthZEN WG got together and demoed their authorization endpoints conforming to the AuthZEN API
For the full video of this presentation, please visit: https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2024/06/building-and-scaling-ai-applications-with-the-nx-ai-manager-a-presentation-from-network-optix/
Robin van Emden, Senior Director of Data Science at Network Optix, presents the “Building and Scaling AI Applications with the Nx AI Manager,” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
In this presentation, van Emden covers the basics of scaling edge AI solutions using the Nx tool kit. He emphasizes the process of developing AI models and deploying them globally. He also showcases the conversion of AI models and the creation of effective edge AI pipelines, with a focus on pre-processing, model conversion, selecting the appropriate inference engine for the target hardware and post-processing.
van Emden shows how Nx can simplify the developer’s life and facilitate a rapid transition from concept to production-ready applications.He provides valuable insights into developing scalable and efficient edge AI solutions, with a strong focus on practical implementation.
Things to Consider When Choosing a Website Developer for your Website | FODUUFODUU
Choosing the right website developer is crucial for your business. This article covers essential factors to consider, including experience, portfolio, technical skills, communication, pricing, reputation & reviews, cost and budget considerations and post-launch support. Make an informed decision to ensure your website meets your business goals.
GraphRAG for Life Science to increase LLM accuracyTomaz Bratanic
GraphRAG for life science domain, where you retriever information from biomedical knowledge graphs using LLMs to increase the accuracy and performance of generated answers
Fueling AI with Great Data with Airbyte WebinarZilliz
This talk will focus on how to collect data from a variety of sources, leveraging this data for RAG and other GenAI use cases, and finally charting your course to productionalization.
Ocean lotus Threat actors project by John Sitima 2024 (1).pptxSitimaJohn
Ocean Lotus cyber threat actors represent a sophisticated, persistent, and politically motivated group that poses a significant risk to organizations and individuals in the Southeast Asian region. Their continuous evolution and adaptability underscore the need for robust cybersecurity measures and international cooperation to identify and mitigate the threats posed by such advanced persistent threat groups.
Unlock the Future of Search with MongoDB Atlas_ Vector Search Unleashed.pdfMalak Abu Hammad
Discover how MongoDB Atlas and vector search technology can revolutionize your application's search capabilities. This comprehensive presentation covers:
* What is Vector Search?
* Importance and benefits of vector search
* Practical use cases across various industries
* Step-by-step implementation guide
* Live demos with code snippets
* Enhancing LLM capabilities with vector search
* Best practices and optimization strategies
Perfect for developers, AI enthusiasts, and tech leaders. Learn how to leverage MongoDB Atlas to deliver highly relevant, context-aware search results, transforming your data retrieval process. Stay ahead in tech innovation and maximize the potential of your applications.
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Alienware X51 performance comparison: Samsung SSD vs. traditional hard drive
1. APRIL 2013
A PRINCIPLED TECHNOLOGIES TEST REPORT
Commissioned by Dell Inc.
ALIENWARE X51 PERFORMANCE COMPARISON: SAMSUNG SSD VS.
TRADITIONAL HARD DRIVE
Gamers, who demand high levels of performance from their computers, reap
enormous benefits from the increased speed that solid-state drives (SSDs) can deliver. In
the Principled Technologies (PT) labs, we conducted a series of performance tests on the
Alienware X51 desktop, which Dell calls “a one-stop gaming and entertainment system.”
We tested two configurations that were identical except for the storage—one system
had a traditional spindle hard drive and the other had a Samsung SSD. Our findings? The
Samsung SSD-based Alienware X51 achieved superior performance across the board.
This means that for an additional investment of only an additional $250,
users could enjoy this increased performance, faster boot and shutdown times, and a
dramatically improved gaming experience with the Samsung SSD.
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HIGH PERFORMANCE = SUPERIOR GAMING EXPERIENCE
Because extremely strong performance is essential to those who use their
computers to play video games, we tested two configurations of the new Alienware
X51, a system designed for gaming. One was equipped with a Samsung solid-state drive
and the other with a traditional hard drive. We conducted each test three times and
report the median score. For detailed system configuration information, see Appendix
A. For details on how we conducted the tests, see Appendix B.
WHAT WE FOUND
Booting and shutting down
We timed how long the two systems took to boot and shut down. As Figure 1
shows, the Alienware X51 with SSD booted 68.1 percent faster and shut down 46.3
percent faster than the HDD-based system.
Figure 1: Boot and shutdown times for
the two systems we tested. Lower
numbers are better.
15.0
5.1
47.0
9.5
0
10
20
30
40
50
Boot Shut down
Seconds
Time toboot and shut down
(lower numbers are better) Alienware
X51 with
Samsung
SSD
Alienware
X51 with
HDD
Copying a large file
To see how the two systems handled copying large files, we copied a 3.98GB
video file from one location on the storage device to another location on the storage
device. As Figure 2 shows, this process was 41.6 percent faster on the SSD-based
Alienware X51 than on the HDD-based system.
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Figure 2: File copy times for the two
systems we tested. Lower numbers are
better.
30.6
52.4
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
Copy fle
Seconds
Time tocopy a large file
(lower numbers are better)
Alienware
X51 with
Samsung
SSD
Alienware
X51 with
HDD
Futuremark PCMark 7 storage performance
Futuremark® PCMark® 7 includes workloads covering storage, computation,
image and video manipulation, Web browsing, and gaming. Figures 3 and 4 show the
median results of our PCMark tests. The SSD-based Alienware X51 achieved a 123.3
percent higher PCMark 7 System Storage score than the HDD-based system did. It also
achieved a higher overall PCMark 7 score and higher scores on all of the PCMark 7
subtests.
Figure 3: The PCMark System Storage
scores for the two systems we tested.
Higher numbers are better.
4,972
2,227
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
Score
PCMark7 SystemStoragescore
(higher numbers are better)
Alienware
X51 with
Samsung
SSD
Alienware
X51 with
HDD
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Futuremark PCMark 7 v1.0.4
Alienware X51
with Samsung SSD
Alienware X51
with HDD
Percentage win with
Samsung SSD
PCMark Score - Median 5,492 3,985 37.8%
Lightweight Score 5,074 2,781 82.5%
Productivity Score 5,209 2,688 93.8%
Creativity Score 5,409 4,033 34.1%
Entertainment Score 5,249 4,583 14.5%
Computation Score 5,508 5,438 1.3%
System Storage Score 4,972 2,227 123.3%
Figure 4: Median scores for the Futuremark PCMark 7 benchmark. Higher numbers are better.
PassMark Disk Mark storage performance
The Disk Mark component of the PassMark® PerformanceTest™ measures data
transfer speed to one or more disks. As Figures 5 and 6 show, the Samsung SSD-based
Alienware X51 scored 144.6 percent higher overall on PassMark DiskMark test than the
HDD-based system. It also scored 71.2 percent higher on the PassMark Sequential Read
test, 66.4 percent higher on the PassMark Sequential Write test, and 2,363.6 percent
higher on PassMark Random Seek score.
Figure 5: The PassMark DiskMark overall
scores for the two systems we tested.
Higher numbers are better.
2,649
1,083
0
500
1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
3,000
1
Score
PassMark DiskMark overall score
(higher numbers are better)
Alienware
X51 with
Samsung
SSD
Alienware
X51 with
HDD
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Figure 6: The PassMark DiskMark
subscores for the two systems we
tested. Higher numbers are better.
248.8 239.8 243.9
145.3 144.1
9.9
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
Sequential
Read
Sequential
Write
Random
Seek + RW
Score
PassMark DiskMark subscores
(higher numbers are better)
Alienware
X51 with
Samsung
SSD
Alienware
X51 with
HDD
WHAT WE TESTED
Futuremark PCMark 7 1.0.4
Futuremark’s PCMark 7 includes seven PC tests for Windows 7, combining more
than 25 individual workloads covering storage, computation, image and video
manipulation, Web browsing, and gaming. Specifically designed to cover the full range
of PC hardware from netbooks and tablets to notebooks and desktops, PCMark 7 offers
complete PC performance testing for Windows 7 for home and business use. For more
information on this benchmark, see http://www.pcmark.com/benchmarks/pcmark7/
PassMark DiskMark
The DiskMark component of PassMark’s Performance Test measures data
transfer speed when reading or writing data both sequentially and randomly to one or
more disks. Many factors affect this speed, and the Advanced Disk Drive Test allows the
user to vary most of these factors and compare the results. For more information on
this benchmark, see http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm.
IN CONCLUSION
The Alienware X51 with Samsung SSD delivers more speed and greater
performance than the same machine with HDD storage, which for gamers means better
gaming experiences. For a modest additional investment, users could avoid frustrating
lag times when copying large files and when booting and shutting down their systems.
Users should appreciate the noticeable improvements that a solid-state drive brings.
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APPENDIX A – DETAILED SYSTEM CONFIGURATION INFORMATION
Figure 7 presents detailed configuration information for the systems we tested.
System Alienware X51 with HDD Alienware X51 with Samsung SSD
General
Number of processor packages 1 1
Number of cores per processor 4 4
Number of hardware threads per
core
2 2
Total number of processor threads
in system
8 8
System power management policy High Performance High Performance
Processor power-saving option EIST EIST
Retail price, excluding tax, shipping,
and discounts, as of April 4, 2013
$1,199 $1,449
CPU
Vendor Intel® Intel
Name Core® i7 Core i7
Model number 3770 3770
Stepping E1 E1
Socket type Socket 1155LGA Socket 1155LGA
Core frequency (GHz) 3.4 (3.9 Turbo) 3.4 (3.9 Turbo)
Bus frequency DMI 5 GT/s DMI 5 GT/s
L1 cache 4 x 32 KB + 4 x 32 KB 4 x 32 KB + 4 x 32 KB
L2 cache 4 x 256 KB 4 x 256 KB
L3 cache 8 MB 8 MB
Platform
Vendor Alienware Alienware
Motherboard model number 06G6JW 06G6JW
Motherboard chipset Intel H61 Intel H61
BIOS name and version Alienware A12 (01/18/2013) Alienware A12 (01/18/2013)
Memory module(s)
Vendor and model number
Hyundai Electronics HMT351U6CFR8C-
PB
Hyundai Electronics HMT351U6CFR8C-
PB
Type PC3-12800 PC3-12800
Speed (MHz) 1,600 1,600
Speed running in the system (MHz) 1,600 1,600
Timing/Latency (tCL-tRCD-tRP-
tRASmin)
11-11-11-28 11-11-11-28
Size (MB) 4096 4096
Number of memory module(s) 2 2
Total amount of system RAM (GB) 8 8
Chip organization (single-
sided/double-sided)
Double-sided Double-sided
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System Alienware X51 with HDD Alienware X51 with Samsung SSD
Channel (single/dual) Dual Dual
Storage
Vendor and model number Western Digital® WD10EZEX-7 Samsung PM830
Number of disks in system 1 1
Size 1 TB 256 GB
Buffer size (MB) 64 N/A
RPM 7,200 N/A
Type SATA 6 Gb/s SSD
Controller
Intel 6 series/C200 Chipset AHCI
Controller
Intel 6 series/C200 Chipset AHCI
Controller
Driver Intel 9.2.0.1011 (09/10/2010) Intel 9.2.0.1011 (09/10/2010)
Operating system
Name Windows® 7 Home Premium x64 Windows 7 Home Premium x64
Build number 7601 7601
Service Pack 1 1
File system NTFS NTFS
Kernel ACPI x64-based PC ACPI x64-based PC
Language English English
Microsoft DirectX version 11 11
Graphics
Vendor and model number NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
Type Discrete Discrete
Chipset GeForce GTX 660 GeForce GTX 660
BIOS version 80.4.48.0.2 80.4.48.0.2
Total available graphics memory
(MB)
4,095 4,095
Dedicated video memory (MB) 1,536 1,536
System video memory (MB) 0 0
Shared system memory (MB) 2,559 2,559
Resolution 1,920 x 1,080 1,920 x 1,080
Driver NVIDIA 8.17.13.142 (05/15/2012) NVIDIA 8.17.13.142 (05/15/2012)
Sound card/subsystem
Vendor and model number Realtek™ High Definition Audio Realtek High Definition Audio
Driver Realtek 6.0.1.6494 (11/02/2011) Realtek 6.0.1.6494 (11/02/2011)
Ethernet
Vendor and model number Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller
Driver Realtek 7.46.610.2011 (06/10/2011) Realtek 7.46.610.2011 (06/10/2011)
Wireless
Vendor and model number Dell Wireless 1506 802.11b/g/n Dell Wireless 1506 802.11b/g/n
Driver Atheros 9.2.0.469 (11/22/2011) Atheros 9.2.0.469 (11/22/2011)
Optical drive(s)
Vendor and model number PLDS DL-8A4SH PLDS DL-8A4SH
Type DVD-RW DVD-RW
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System Alienware X51 with HDD Alienware X51 with Samsung SSD
USB ports
Number 8 8
Type 6 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0 6 x USB 2.0, 2 x USB 3.0
Other eSATA, Display Port eSATA, Display Port
IEEE 1394 ports
Number 0 0
Monitor
Type Dell U2212HM Dell U2212HM
Screen size 21.5” 21.5”
Refresh rate (Hz) 60 60
Figure 7: Detailed configuration information for the two systems we tested.
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APPENDIX B – TEST METHODOLOGY
Measuring time to boot and shut down
Setting up the test
Download and install the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (ADK) for Windows® 8 with default options
from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30652.
Windows ADK Boot Performance Assessment (Full Boot) test
1. Boot the system and bring up an administrative command prompt:
a. Type cmd
b. Right-click the Command Prompt app to open App options.
c. Click Run as administrator.
2. Type Cmd.exe /c start /wait Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
3. Do not interact with the system until the command exits.
4. After the command exits, wait 5 minutes before running the test.
5. To launch the Windows Assessment Console, click Windows Start orbAll ProgramsWindows KitsWindows
ADKWindows Assessment Console.
6. Select Run Individual Assessments, and click Boot Performance Assessment (Full Boot).
7. Click Run.
8. Record the results.
9. Shut down the computer.
10. Repeat steps 1 through 9 twice.
Measuring time to copy large files
Setting up the test
1. We used a 3.98 GB .MOV file for this test.
2. Copy the .MOV file to the Videos directory.
Running the test
1. Boot the test system.
2. Bring up an elevated command prompt:
a. Select Windows Start orb.
b. Type cmd and press Control-Shift-Enter.
3. Type Cmd.exe /c start /wait Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
4. Do not interact with the system until the command completes.
5. After the command completes, wait 5 minutes before running the test.
6. Browse to the Videos directory and right-clickcopy the .MOV file.
7. Browse to the C: root directory.
8. Simultaneously right-clickpaste the .MOV file into the C: root directory and start the stopwatch.
9. Stop the stopwatch when the file has finished copying.
10. Delete the file from the C: root directory and shutdown the system.
11. Repeat steps 1 and 10 two more times.
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Measuring system performance with Futuremark PCMark 7
Setting up the test
1. Reset the system with the appropriate test image.
2. Download the PCMark_7_v104_installer.exe Windows package from
www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/pcmarkvantage/download/.
3. Install PCMark 7 1.0.4 with the default options by double-clicking the PCMark_7_v104_installer.exe file.
4. Launch PCMark 7 1.0.4 by clicking on the PCMark 7 desktop icon. Enter the registration code, click Register, and click
OK.
5. Exit PCMark 7 1.0.4.
Running the test
1. Reboot the system.
2. Double-click the PCMark 7 desktop icon to launch the benchmark.
3. Select all test suites.
4. Click Run Benchmark.
5. When the benchmark run completes take a screenshot of the results, and record them as follows:
PCMark Score
Lightweight Score
Creativity Score
Entertainment Score
Computation Score
System Storage Score
6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 two more times, and report the median of the three runs.
Measuring hard disk performance with PassMark PerformanceTest 8
Setting up the test
1. Download PassMark PerformanceTest Professional 8.0 from http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm.
2. Double-click petst.exe to run setup.
3. At the Welcome screen, click Next.
4. Accept the license agreement, and click Next.
5. At the Choose Install Location screen, accept the default location of C:Program FilesPerformanceTest, and click
Next.
6. At the Select Start Menu Folder screen, click Next.
7. At the Ready to Install screen, click Install.
8. At the Completing the PerformanceTest Setup Wizard screen, deselect View Readme.txt, and click Finish to launch
PerformanceTest.
9. At the Purchasing information screen, copy and paste the Username and key, and click Continue.
10. At the Key accepted screen, click OK.
Running the test
1. Boot the system and double-click the desktop icon to launch PassMark PerformanceTest.
2. Bring up an elevated command prompt:
a. Select Windows Start orb.
b. Type cmd and press Control-Shift-Enter.
3. Type Cmd.exe /c start /wait Rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks
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4. Do not interact with the system until the command completes.
5. After the command completes, wait 5 minutes before running the test.
6. From the top menu, click TestsDiskAll.
7. After the run has finished, record the PassMark Disk Mark results containing Sequential Read, Sequential Write, and
Random Seek results.
8. Power the system off.
9. Repeat the steps 1 through 7 two more times.
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requirements. Whether the technology involves hardware, software, Web
sites, or services, we offer the experience, expertise, and tools to help our
clients assess how it will fare against its competition, its performance, its
market readiness, and its quality and reliability.
Our founders, Mark L. Van Name and Bill Catchings, have worked
together in technology assessment for over 20 years. As journalists, they
published over a thousand articles on a wide array of technology subjects.
They created and led the Ziff-Davis Benchmark Operation, which
developed such industry-standard benchmarks as Ziff Davis Media’s
Winstone and WebBench. They founded and led eTesting Labs, and after
the acquisition of that company by Lionbridge Technologies were the
head and CTO of VeriTest.
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