[HECnet] My newest toy

[Mark Benson]

On 13 Jan 2013, at 14:17, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman- wrote:

I'll have to plug in my watt meter and see just how much my Itaniums do
actually consume; however, bang (CPU speed) for the buck (power use), I
would wager that the Itanium is better.

As a ready reckoner, 2 1.3GHz/3.0MB Itanium2s with 1 PSU, 8GB of RAM and no graphics board runs at over 250W at IDLE. Under loa you are looking into the region of 4-500W. They chuck out a lot of heat too. Not something you want to try running in a confined space on a summers day!

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