Voxeo Talks

The data-center power geek in me was excited to see that SPEC has released a power benchmark for servers. As a company that has to manage the power draw of thousands of servers these days in our data centers power is now often the largest issue we run into when planning growth. We often find ourself fighting companies like google to reserve power and cooling from our colo providers for new racks of equipment.

This extra attention will make it a lot easer to evaluate the total power draw that servers draw under typical work loads for us and will help pressure venders to think about power draw when combining components into a complete server platform.

Arstechnica has a nice overview of what is covered in the benchmark.

Tags: data center, power, SPEC, SPECpower, SPECpower_ssj2008

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