Istanbul

[Jonathan]

Not Constantinople, a 6C Opteron (2S and 4S)!

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/new ... e-istanbul

42 GB/s stream scores, up 1.6x from Shanghai Opteron numbers.

[Jonathan]

http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=563

According to AMD, many customers are already putting "power caps" (a BIOS feature) on their CPUs to avoid that the server exceed a certain power consumption level. This means that the CPU is staying in the lower p-states and is never able to run at full clockspeed. This is used by many customers that do not buy low power CPUs.

Vinny is not alone!

[Dave]

I'll always be there for vinny, my one smooth love.

[VLSmooth]

Next we need regenerative coolers to turn heat dissipation into power; lowering temperatures and noise even further!

[quantus]

How low of power can you set the power cap at? I have a friend at Sun who was working on java based industrial control boxes and a big constraint for industrial control is that the box be able to run with no fans, so they need something down in the 25-35W power envelope. What current processors fit that bill?

[Jonathan]

Any mobile laptop chip is good to go at 25W.

I do not think there are blade Xeons that go that low but I'd have to check; my faint memory says they are more like 40W. I don't think there is a technical barrier, just a lack of market demand.