Server problem One: What are the advantages of dual core? What are the main areas of application? Peng: Dual-core processors can improve data center productivity without altering the infrastructure, because of the great advantages of dual-core processors in terms of price/performance, effectiveness, and scalability. Server consolidation will become more affordable because fewer hosts can handle more work. Dual-core processors can greatly enhance virtual functionality and security. Leverage virtual technology to allocate tasks at the processor level to significantly improve the actual availability of IT system processing capabilities.
Sheng: Dual-core processors have a strong advantage in processing capacity, cost performance, energy consumption, heat dissipation and space savings, and are suitable for key applications such as High-performance computing. The server platform based on dual-core processor will be in the mass data processing, large-scale network applications, complex scientific computing and large-scale graphic modeling for the characteristics of enterprise-class or industry-critical applications to play a role in processing capacity, scalability, stability, reliability, manageability and other aspects to achieve a greater breakthrough, to bring higher price, But also more effective to protect the user's investment.
Yangno: In a highly rack-dense environment, the customer's system performance will be greatly enhanced by porting to a dual core with the same power and infrastructure investment. The adoption of dual-core technology in the mainstream X86 industry standard platform enables many more popular applications to achieve higher cost performance through this technology. Connecting two cores together within the processor allows the processor to maintain the original power consumption, and the original application upgrade is also easy.
Wang Chengjiang: Compared with single core platform, the advantages of dual-core platform are mainly shown in the aspects of high cost performance, high-performance, high reliability, high manageability, high scalability, high-density, low power consumption and low heat dissipation. Dual-core and multicore applications are an inevitable trend.
Question two: What are the barriers to the universalization of the dual core at this stage? Sheng: The cultivation of market demand is a key factor, users will not change their existing applications quickly because of some new products introduced by the manufacturers. At present, the market on the two-way products mainly. But given the increased efficiency, the customer's choice of platform will change.
Wang Chengjiang: The 2006-year dual-core server popularization of the barriers are mainly focused on the price, application is scarce, the software fee standard is not a threshold limit. On the one hand, it is necessary to wait for users to understand the value of dual-core products more deeply, on the other hand, vendors are required to provide solutions based on dual-core servers.
Chengyuan: For dual-core servers, the main factor of market promotion is the problem of market acceptance, users are generally unwilling to be the first to eat crabs, so customers are still watching. In marketing, the first is whether the customer is aware of dual-core server products, followed by customers believe that the price of dual-core servers, it brings performance and cost increases compared to whether it is worthwhile, as well as customers on the dual-core server is not much knowledge.
Peng: For industry users, the current major constraints on the deployment of dual-core servers focused on two aspects, on the one hand, because of the current dual-core technology applications related to the external environment, on the other hand because the price of dual-core server products is still high. At the same time, as a new thing, the user needs to have a familiar process, the past inertia dictates that the user needs time to mature gradually. Dual-core technology is undoubtedly attractive, especially in the current era of rapid development of information, the server has become the key to the application of information.
Question three: Can the dual-core server overcome the difficulty to popularize in 2006 years? What are your vendors ' strategies? Dayrou: We've spent 7 years trying to get the industrial chain ready. Now that Microsoft has fully supported multiple cores, including the operating system and all of Microsoft's applications, other leading American software vendors have already achieved most of the multithreading of their software. As for the Chinese and Asian markets, there has been great progress in implementing multi-threaded applications, so the main obstacle to software has been overcome. This year, Intel will be integrated into the dual-core products, by the end of this year, 85% of the server will achieve dual-core.
Sheng: 2006 will be an important year for the all-round development of dual-core technology and related products. With the market needs and the further maturation of dual-core technology, dual-core products will gradually become popular. At present, Dell in China launched the PowerEdge 830/850/1850 and other eight servers are fully support dual-core technology. In the future, with the introduction of more dual-core technology server products, Dell will be with the industry's leading software and hardware vendors to fully communicate and cooperate to provide users with a wealth of applications, so that customers enjoy a smooth migration process, reliable investment protection and strong flexibility.
Yangno: Many users are moving towards dual-core servers. If the user does not need to have a long operating system environment or 8-way upgrades, HP believes they should still choose the x86 architecture. AMD products in the two-way, four-way, especially in the dual-core environment, cost-effective is more advanced. The user transition to a new CPU brand requires a process that is the focus of AMD and HP's work this year. As one of the future development strategies of HP ProLiant, HP will be fully promoting the four-way server HP ProLiant DL585 and bl45p Blade server with dual-core AMD Hao long processors.
Peng: From now on, problems that hinder the development of dual-core systems are slowly being resolved. The factors that are expensive are believed to be stabilizing in 2006. At the same time, software licensing ice is also gradually melting. And the most critical user acceptance, through the 2005 comprehensive enough market preheating, customer acceptance level will be greatly improved. In the 2006, the dual-core server will be the culmination of a development in the future, as these challenges are cracked. October 2005, along with the Intel Xeon Dual-core processor officially released, the wave announced that two support for dual-core products NF280 G2, NF500 officially listed. The new dual-core server platform continues to extend the IFA Intelligent Elastic Architecture product design concept and technology, in the future, the wave of intelligent server products will gradually achieve dual-core applications.
Wang Chengjiang: In 2006, the price problem of dual-core servers will be solved with the maturing of dual-core technology, with the continuous improvement of Intel's dual-core processor technology, its follow-up products will be in real competition with AMD, which will certainly be a big fuss over the price. In addition, the situation of the software charging standards will be different with the maturity of the technology to form a more perfect charging method, so as to solve the bottleneck in this respect. The most critical is the continuous promotion and improvement of market cognition and solution. At present, there are two dual-core product lines based on AMD dual-core chips and Intel dual-core chips, which can meet the different needs of users.
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