To be completely honest, I thought you were talking about your old systems when discussing the X25 SSDs (which was confusing because of the talk of upgrading from mechanical hard drives). This was cleared up in your second article about the SSDs specifically, but I spent a minute scratching my head.
Looking forward to the power consumption information!
What A Great new! But I Could Not Find This Article On The New Home Page - I Only Came Here By Using Twitter! Guys, You Really Have To Make Browsing On The New layout Easier.
And The Comment Box Has Some Bug That Makes The Android Browser Of jelly Bean (4.2.Something) Capitalize Every Word! (The Ones Without It Was Me Correcting Typos).
this "capitals bug" does not happen on Chrome for Android. but right now I'm on IE 9 and went back to the home page trying to find this specific article. Nada. Vanished. Impossible to find on menus or anywhere in the new layout. Anand please review the functionality of this new menu because right now I have to follow your site on twitter.
Ok, I figured out what is happening. when the "One question site survey" ad is open, it overlaps the WHOLE pipeline area. So I can't see the pipeline stories. when this ad is changed, the pipeline is back. sorry for not sending this bug report on the email, but the comment section was the fastest way I could figure to reach you.
Anand, may I enquire about bottlenecks? What is in your specific case most likely to limit performance: front-end or back-end, storage performance or cpu performance, maybe even network bandwidth?
I'm kinda surprised that the site is using older Xeon 5600 series chips instead of the newer Xeon E5's. That'd get you an extra memory channel per socket and upto two more cores. In addition the C600 series chipset has variants with 8 port SAS controller on-die which would eliminate the need for a dedicated RAID card for storage. Migrations like this are never simple so some lead time was required but Xeon E5's have been on the market nearly a year now. The hardware migration for the site is mentioned taking place last year. How much of an opportunity was there to go with the Xeon E5's instead of the older Xeon 5600 series? Was there consideration to hold off on the hardware upgrade for the impending generation of Xeon E5's?
I'm also surprised that the environment isn't even more virtualized. Running the DB's as VM's isn't always the wisest choice due to overhead but it would give the environment flexibility in the event of a hardware failure. For example, run the DB's as the sole VM on a physical box and then you'd have the ability to migrate application server VM's there in the advent of an application host box going down.
Network backend wasn't discussed at all. Not sure if jumping to 10G Ethernet would be worth it in this case. Storage has moved into the host environments which makes much of the old traffic local IO.
Speaking of storage, I'm not surprised at the move to software RAID for flexibility. The ranking of performance in terms of importance has lowered with SSD's and thus the overhead of software RAID in a system can be absorbed. I'm more surprised at the selection of Intel's RAID instead of something like ZFS.
I am running several servers with E5-2667 processors, some as physical servers and others as VMWare ESXi hosts. I am happy with the performance. I have also virtualized Oracle 11g database servers. The experience is quite positive though the database load is not very high. All the storage is off SSD-accelerated 8 Gbps FC SAN. Have a few E5-2690 based servers on order - I feel this processor is the performance yardstick at present.
Those X-25E's are really coming down in price on the second-hand market. I guess a lot of people must be upgrading them and putting them for sale on sites like ebay.
Can you elaborate more on how you were able to get sponsors for the hardware and able to get the required financing when starting Anandtech back in the 90's? I am wanting to start my own film post-production studio but the banks in my area are uncooperative and won't provide any financing. At least not the large amount I need to start this kind of business and buy all the equipment. I also need to figure out how to get clients from Hollywood and local film crews pointed to my studio.
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evilspoons - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - link
To be completely honest, I thought you were talking about your old systems when discussing the X25 SSDs (which was confusing because of the talk of upgrading from mechanical hard drives). This was cleared up in your second article about the SSDs specifically, but I spent a minute scratching my head.Looking forward to the power consumption information!
marc1000 - Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - link
What A Great new! But I Could Not Find This Article On The New Home Page - I Only Came Here By Using Twitter! Guys, You Really Have To Make Browsing On The New layout Easier.And The Comment Box Has Some Bug That Makes The Android Browser Of jelly Bean (4.2.Something) Capitalize Every Word! (The Ones Without It Was Me Correcting Typos).
Good Luck On Fixing All The Quirks. Regards,
marc1000 - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
this "capitals bug" does not happen on Chrome for Android. but right now I'm on IE 9 and went back to the home page trying to find this specific article. Nada. Vanished. Impossible to find on menus or anywhere in the new layout. Anand please review the functionality of this new menu because right now I have to follow your site on twitter.marc1000 - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
Ok, I figured out what is happening. when the "One question site survey" ad is open, it overlaps the WHOLE pipeline area. So I can't see the pipeline stories. when this ad is changed, the pipeline is back. sorry for not sending this bug report on the email, but the comment section was the fastest way I could figure to reach you.Paulman - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
That "Capitalize Every Word" bug is actually kinda hilarious :Dmarc1000 - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - link
yeah, I also think it is. but it is a LOT harder to enter text on Android stock browser now, give it a try!tim851 - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
Anand, may I enquire about bottlenecks? What is in your specific case most likely to limit performance: front-end or back-end, storage performance or cpu performance, maybe even network bandwidth?DuckieHo - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
Why not Xeon E5-2650L or E5-2630L? I believe they were available a year agoKevin G - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
I'm kinda surprised that the site is using older Xeon 5600 series chips instead of the newer Xeon E5's. That'd get you an extra memory channel per socket and upto two more cores. In addition the C600 series chipset has variants with 8 port SAS controller on-die which would eliminate the need for a dedicated RAID card for storage. Migrations like this are never simple so some lead time was required but Xeon E5's have been on the market nearly a year now. The hardware migration for the site is mentioned taking place last year. How much of an opportunity was there to go with the Xeon E5's instead of the older Xeon 5600 series? Was there consideration to hold off on the hardware upgrade for the impending generation of Xeon E5's?I'm also surprised that the environment isn't even more virtualized. Running the DB's as VM's isn't always the wisest choice due to overhead but it would give the environment flexibility in the event of a hardware failure. For example, run the DB's as the sole VM on a physical box and then you'd have the ability to migrate application server VM's there in the advent of an application host box going down.
Network backend wasn't discussed at all. Not sure if jumping to 10G Ethernet would be worth it in this case. Storage has moved into the host environments which makes much of the old traffic local IO.
Speaking of storage, I'm not surprised at the move to software RAID for flexibility. The ranking of performance in terms of importance has lowered with SSD's and thus the overhead of software RAID in a system can be absorbed. I'm more surprised at the selection of Intel's RAID instead of something like ZFS.
SatishJ - Friday, March 22, 2013 - link
I am running several servers with E5-2667 processors, some as physical servers and others as VMWare ESXi hosts. I am happy with the performance. I have also virtualized Oracle 11g database servers. The experience is quite positive though the database load is not very high. All the storage is off SSD-accelerated 8 Gbps FC SAN. Have a few E5-2690 based servers on order - I feel this processor is the performance yardstick at present.Shadowmaster625 - Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - link
Those X-25E's are really coming down in price on the second-hand market. I guess a lot of people must be upgrading them and putting them for sale on sites like ebay.lwatcdr - Thursday, March 14, 2013 - link
Why Westmere over Sandy Bridge-e?MrCoyote - Sunday, March 17, 2013 - link
Anand,Can you elaborate more on how you were able to get sponsors for the hardware and able to get the required financing when starting Anandtech back in the 90's? I am wanting to start my own film post-production studio but the banks in my area are uncooperative and won't provide any financing. At least not the large amount I need to start this kind of business and buy all the equipment. I also need to figure out how to get clients from Hollywood and local film crews pointed to my studio.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
SatishJ - Friday, March 22, 2013 - link
Can you please share some statistics about the website load - concurrent users, page views in a day etc ?wang2013 - Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - link
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