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If you are looking for lots of server power packed into a small space, look no further than the IBM xServer 336 series. In our tests, we were impressed with its solid performance, a great physical design and management features.
The server's single-rack space form will be attractive for enterprise applications where two-processor servers are needed yet space is a premium. For example, businesses with many CPU-intensive Web and database applications that require dedicated servers would benefit from the x336.
The server packs two 3.6-GHz processors, two PCI-X slots (we had one 64-bit 133-MHz slot and one 64-bit 100-MHz slot), two Gigabit ports and two 3.5-inch drive slots in one 1.75-inch vertical rack space. The server we tested also included 4G bytes of 400-MHz DDR2 synchronous dynamic DRAM.
In the test, we could saturate the dual Gigabit Ethernet interfaces with 1.96G bit/sec of traffic.The server performed well, supporting nearly 760 SSL transactions per second. In our I/O subsystem test, the x336 could support 102 transactions per second, with an average disk queue length greater than five. Comparing this with other servers, our 1-year-old server could sustain only 45 transactions per second. (Note: Results are for relative performance only not to determine absolute server load capacity Our results can show whether one server...