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Dell, HP and Sun Blade Server Comparison

Published by editors | Filed under Blade Servers

A test made by InfoWord with blade server configurations of three of the main server vendors Dell, HP and Sun showed that there is not significant difference in overall rating of the systems. The test experts conducted performance tests using the SPEChpc benchmarking suite and examined server management tools.

They’ve said for InfoWorld that their time was short, so each solution got only a single day to strut its stuff.? 

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But Brian Chee and Paul Venezia told the news edition that the blade server producers had more than one month prior to the test to prepare. They prepared blades for the SPEChpc tests and installed accompanying software the test team needed to us.

“We chose the SPEChpc tests not only because we’re interested in the blades’ HPC performance, but also because they would give each solution a thorough workout, extending to CPU, memory, and interconnect performance. We allowed vendors their choice of hardware, including the type of interconnect to be used, with the only requirements being that the SPEChpc tests were limited to 16 sockets and 32GB of RAM. Each socket might hold a dual- or quad-core CPU, and each blade might have two or four CPUs, but otherwise, the goal was to see the best of the best.”, said Paul Venezia to InfoWorld.

The configurations tested are? Dell PowerEdge 1955 Blade System ,? HP BladeSystem c-Class, and Sun Blade 8000 Modular System . All configurations are bottom line blades.

Dell Blade:? 

Dell’s PowerEdge 1955 surprised us in the SPEChpc tests, turning in the best score by far, and it offers unique features such as the embedded Avocent KVM. In spite of being the smallest chassis (7U) in the test, it offers a significant amount of processing power. The management can run stand-alone or integrated into Dell’s OpenManage framework, but isn’t terribly impressive either way. All things considered, the PowerEdge 1955 offers the best bang for the buck.

HP Blade:? HP’s brand-new quad-core Intel blades made their debut in this test, delivering eight total cores across two sockets in each half-height blade. The c-Class offers an impressive 16 blades per 10U chassis, and an equally impressive array of I/O options, including integrated Cisco switching modules. We did see some relatively minor hardware problems in the lab, possibly due to the pre-release status of the blades. Overall, the c-Class is solidly built and reasonably priced for a high-end blade system.

Sun Blade:? 

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Sun’s system is more of a consolidated server structure than true blades. Each server module offers a four-socket Opteron mainboard with up to 64GB of RAM, and Sun fits 10 modules into a 19U chassis that is just bursting with I/O options. Its surprisingly poor performance in the lab is likely due to poor optimization on the SPEChpc tests. Either way, it cost Sun on the final score - but the blades are impressively powerful, and a great match for a virtualization infrastructure.

The whole blade comparison survey can be read in InfoWord’s website.

May 22nd, 2008
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