Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 10:17:23 +0100 (CET) From: Mats Larsson <myrslok@marvin.sko.mh.se> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lower power SMP boxes? Message-ID: <20030201101041.H16130@marvin.sko.mh.se> In-Reply-To: <200301312312.h0VNC5bQ007170@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200301312312.h0VNC5bQ007170@apollo.backplane.com>
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Via just recently announced their new Nehemiah processor capable of smp, presumably slow as its precursor but also the lowest power consuming processor at the market (at least with standard socket fcpga motherboard) Check it out at: http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=7434 http://www.via.com.tw/en/viac3/c3.jsp // Mats On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I've slowly been trying to trim down the power use in my machine room, > oweing to astronomical PG&E bills :-(. I'm using those wonderful little > EPIA series mini-itx motherboards (purchased from idot.com) as low/medium > performance servers. They aren't all that fast but one will run a web > site, pop/sendmail, and an ordb nameserver just dandy and can copy files > over NFS at 7MBytes/s. That covers UP systems quite well. > > But MP is another story. At some point I would like to put together > some SMP test boxes that don't cost the equivalent of rent on a small > apartment in electricity use. They don't have to be super-fast, they > just need to be SMP. I'm not talking about blade servers here, I'm > talking about SMP boxes for testing purposes. > > Anyone have any ideas? > > -Matt > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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