The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. has done its best to promote energy savings with the release of the SPECpower_ssj2008 V1.10 benchmark for server-class computers.
Launching this week, the SPECpower (for short) benchmark measures multi-node servers. It offers metrics that automate power management including multiple power analyzers and provides a visual activity monitor to display data collected in the course of running the benchmark.
The new benchmark focuses in particular on blade servers, says the chair of the SPECpower committee and will give IT managers the ability to analyze power-performance trade-offs.
SPECpower_ssj2008 reports power consumption for servers at different performance levels from 100% to idle in 10% segments over a set period of time.
SPECpower is both a benchmark and a toolkit for generating customized loads. Results of this benchmark will be backward compatible with V1.00 and V1.01, which measured only one server at a time.
Among the companies using the new SPECpower benchmark are AMD, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, Intel, IBM and Sun.
SPECpower_ssj2008 V1.10 is available for $1,600.
