[Beowulf] power usage, Intel 5160 vs. AMD 2216

[Jerome, Ron]

If it helps any, I have a rack of 32 dual Intel 5320's with 8G FBDIMM (4
x 2G) with a single 70G SAS drive.

The whole rack (at peak usage) draws about 11,000 watts.

Ron. 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org]
On
> Behalf Of Jon Bernard
> Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2007 6:22 PM
> To: beowulf at beowulf.org
> Subject: [Beowulf] power usage, Intel 5160 vs. AMD 2216
> 
> Two vendors recently bid on a cluster we're buying, and we've got
> questions about their power estimates that I though I'd also put to
the
> list while we wait for the vendors to respond.
> 
> Vendor A estimates that at peak load a compute node with two AMD
2216s,
> 4 GB of 667 DDR2 RAM, a hard drive, and an IB board will draw 265
watts.
> Vendor B estimates that such a node will draw 450 watts.
> 
> Vendor B also estimates that a similar machine with two Intel 5160s
will
> draw 550 watts at peak load.
> 
> Anybody have any actual measurements?
> 
> Jon
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