System Configurations

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Sun Microsystems T1000
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The power measurements were made with Kill-A-Watt devices ordered from Sustainability Systems over the period of time indicated. Note that comparing these machines is an apples and oranges kind of comparison. The T1000 has 2 drives, 16GB of memory, and 4 Gigabit Ethernets (GbE), much of which were unused. The Pentium IV, likewise, had an extra disk controller, and a pair of extra 10,000 RPM drives as well.

T1000: (50 days) Running Solaris 10

182KW, 1215 Hours - 149 watts per hour.

The T1000 is the standard T10Z108A-16GA2F, 8 core, 2 73GB drives, 16GB of
memory.

Burned up just over half the CPU available to me in the evaluation period!

15:45 2028 /tmp: vmstat 7
kthr memory page disk faults cpu
r b w swap free re mf pi po fr de sr s0 s1 -- -- in sy cs us sy id
1 0 0 11346976 12164384 16 48 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 456 412 149 54 0 46
0 0 0 5681352 7311352 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 458 65 97 81 1 18
15:46 2029 /tmp: uptime
3:46pm up 50 day(s), 18:23, 2 users, load average: 26.31, 26.29, 26.19
15:46 2030 /tmp:

MicroCenter PowerSpec 6640 Athlon64 (2 days) Running Fedora Core 5

1.19KW, 54 Hours - 22 watts per hour.

Comes with 1GB of memory and contains only a single 200GB drive.

/proc/cpuinfo:

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 15
model : 12
model name : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
stepping : 0
cpu MHz : 2193.715
cache size : 512 KB
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext lm 3dnowext 3dnow
bogomips : 4396.43
TLB size : 1024 4K pages
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp

Dell PowerEdge 400SC Pentium IV (60 days) Running Fedora Core 5

218KW, 1635 Hours - 133 watts per hour.

Comes with 2GB of memory, an extra disk controller and several Raptor 73GB 10,000 RPM drives.

/proc/cpuinfo

processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 3192.591
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips : 6394.80

processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 15
model : 2
model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz
stepping : 9
cpu MHz : 3192.591
cache size : 512 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe cid xtpr
bogomips : 6384.44

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