Re: POWER6 now or later?

[Larry Bolhuis <lbolhuis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you ever seen the blowers in a blade center?!?! I am dead serious 
that those things rival the air movement of the blower in the heat pump 
at my house.  Sure the POWER6 is even better than the POWER5 at power 
(and therefore heat) management. But fool yourself not, it don't run 
cool enough for any laptop I've lugged around.  Now maybe (Just maybe) 
if you clocked the thing down to 1Ghz or so it may run cool enough.  
With all the horsepower in there even 1Ghz would do a nice job for a 
single user system. 

I know my brother was trying to create a low powered Linux web server 
for his personal site. He underclocked a Pentium something or other so 
low it didn't need a fan. He set the hard drive to spin down and removed 
the video card and stripped the memory. He got it low enough to remove 
the fan from the power supply even. It ran great! But it still drew 
something like 4 times more power than the laptop he ended up using 
which idles at around 30 watts as I recall.   Little chance an entire 
POWER6 infrastructure is gonna come in anywhere near that level.

- Larry

Booth Martin wrote:
> ??  If they are porting the OS to a blade server then it would seem they 
> have resolved issues of heat? 
>
> Paul Nelson wrote:
>   
> > Why not a laptop? Heat.
> >
> > Paul Nelson
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> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:40 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?
> >
> > I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit.  
> > Portability, for marketing I suppose?  But after that very small need, 
> > then what?  Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?
> >
> > If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem 
> > quicker/easier/more responsive?
> >
> >