[Beowulf] power usage, Intel 5160 vs. AMD 2216

[Glen Gardner]

450 watts peak is not too far off from what I've experienced.


two AMD socket F dual core cpu's on a TYAN Thunder n3600M S2932GNR
motherboard.

Max startup power use: 330W

Idle power use after OS boot: 200W

Maximum power use during heavy file I/O to raid
(using io_bench.c): 271W

Max power use during an MPI pheapsort.c run (11 processes): 351W

estimated max continuous power use (heavy I/O & cpu use): 422W


Glen



On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 17:22 -0500, Jon Bernard wrote:
> Two vendors recently bid on a cluster we're buying, and we've got
> questions about their power estimates that I though I'd also put to the
> list while we wait for the vendors to respond.
> 
> Vendor A estimates that at peak load a compute node with two AMD 2216s,
> 4 GB of 667 DDR2 RAM, a hard drive, and an IB board will draw 265 watts.
> Vendor B estimates that such a node will draw 450 watts.
> 
> Vendor B also estimates that a similar machine with two Intel 5160s will
> draw 550 watts at peak load.
> 
> Anybody have any actual measurements?
> 
> Jon
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