I finally received some new servers in the Atmos lab and…well, I thought I’d share with you!!! These are Cisco C200 M1 servers and they’re loaded out in the following config:
Given that I’m trying to get back into a regular schedule of posting (and the relative frequency of “interesting” search phrases that lead people here), I hereby present the October 23rd Search Term Edition post! In case you missed last week’s, you can find it here.
Just to add to the ever-growing information data base on the excellent Tyan S5397.
If you seem to be having problems with reported memory bandwidth in your favourite worthless synthetic benchmark or reality-based simulation workload, try disabling the Snoop Filter in the bios.
Remember, the Intel Xeon processors use a different set of prefetch schedulers than standard “consumer” level parts, so, this can also affect workload.