It's time to stop fearing CPU power management
The result is that IT managers end up leaving power management functions off as a general rule — even when many systems don’t have strict latency requirements.
According to Uptime Institute's Jay Dietrich, it’s really about time this became the default procedure for IT buyers when procuring new equipment. “What we encourage is, just like you’re going to work with your vendors and make choices based on performance characteristics — like latency — you should also test power management and make a determination ‘Can I use power management for these workloads?’” he said.
For one, most existing datacenters aren’t designed to accommodate systems as powerful and compute-dense as those available today.last year, AMD painted a picture in which customers could consolidate multiple racks into just one. While the prospect of packing two or three racks of aging systems into a single cabinet full of Epycs or Xeons — the logic isn’t unique to AMD — is rather attractive, most datacenters simply aren’t equipped to power or cool the resulting rig.
As CPUs and GPUs grow ever more power hungry, the number of systems you can fit into a typical six-kilowatt rack drops sharply.
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