16th
December
2008
Server Performance Updates
posted in Hardware, Technology |Early benchmarks on the new Core i7 server chips (Xeon 5570) show it running about 35% faster on SAP benchmarks than same clock speed 54xx series chips. This could be a really interesting factor in designing our data centers for the Sharepoint Grid services- its always nice to take advantage of the latest hardware trends when you can.
The only possible catch- part of the boost is the new hyperthreading support so an 2×4 core system has 16 threads. Lots of software has problems scaling cleanly with more threads, and I’m interested in seeing how well SharePoint does.