Average FPS: 28.82 Duration: 35.22 sec CPU Usage: 88% System memory usage: 68% Video memory usage: 79% Graphics Settings Video Mode: 1600 x 1200 (100 Hz) Texture Quality: High Render Quality: High View Distance: 61 Detail Distance: 100 Hardware Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 Video ...

Our customers or prospective customers often ask us how we do a performance audit (it's our most popular service). I thought I should write a blog post that will both answer their question, so I can just reply "read all about it at this URL" and share our methodology with readers a little bit. This ...

Posted by timothy (73% noise) View Skip gupg writes “NVIDIA announced a new category of supercomputers — the Tesla Personal Supercomputer — a 4 TeraFLOPS desktop for under $10,000. This desktop machine has 4 of the Tesla C1060 computing processors. These GPUs have no graphics out a...

I did some research on storage-system performance for my QConf San Francisco preso and have numbers for your delectation (pictures too). Now is a good time to do this research because the hardware spectrum is shifting, and there are a bunch of things you might mean by the word “disk”. I managed ...

As you may have recently seen there are some articles about scaling MySQL one 256-way system. I though wow did they really make it work, considering how many bottlenecks remain in MySQL. What article really tells us ? First the number 256 - this is not number of Cores... this is number of hardware t...

Now that VMware Fusion 2 has had a couple of months in the limelight (see "VMware Fusion 2.0 Released," 2008-09-16), Parallels has stepped back onto the stage with the release of Parallels Desktop version 4.0. The new version adds a boatload of features, improves performance, and generally makes it ...

These DELL servers (3 available) are configured to be some of the fastest file, web, or database servers that can be bought. They feature 4 (four) 73 GB hard drives that run at 15,000 revolutions per minute (RRM) and are connected via serial-attach SCSI. That's almost 300GB of the fastest served dat...

Used less than 4 months and carrying the full remainder of DELL's factory warranty, these servers come from a clean-room datacenter environment and are ready to be deployed into your datacenter or office environment. They are 1-unit rack mountable systems offering tremendous web, file, database, or ...

A pair of reports in the IT blogosphere talk about Hewlett-Packard returning to the operating environment creation workbench. InfoWorld has a report which comments on a  BusinessWeek article, both outlining an HP project to build a desktop OS which doesn't require Windows. Linux will form the c...

This year the VMworld US conference broken all records for a virtualization conference: 14,000 delegates. In front of them the new CEO Paul Maritz may have a hard time explaining why the company co-founder and Chief Scientist, Mendel Rosenblum, resigned or why the Executive Vice President of R&D...