Thread: More powerful servers

As the power consumption in data centers is increasing, vendors are focusing on less power consuming server. Instead with virtualization capabilities i.e. Intel-VT or AMD-V. Blades are good to be used in a data center as it sav.es on both power and space. Due to its compact structure, it is opted by many organization, but blade is not the only one in the run.



Recently, we revie-wd a 24 core Dunnignton server (November 2008 peQuest) which is an example of future server in data centers. This server has 4 processors with 6 cores each, and is meant mainly for virtualization or cloud computing solutions. In near future, we will be seeing more powerful servers with more number of processors and cores per processor. But server vendors should keep power consumption III mind before designing.