Intel

http://forum.nag.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=59199&st=20&p=629305&#entry629305

http://forum.nag.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=59199&st=20&p=629305&#entry629305 russian ISP/network operators community forum: a post with live stats from a system system that routes ~ 10G/1.9Mpps of live traffic on Intel X520-2 82559EB card, 2 x Xeon E5620

http://vbtechsupport.com/606/ Sysbench-based benchmark comparing OLTP workloads for different builds and forks of MySQL on 64-core intel machine (Quad Intel Xeon L7555 ) . Only one definitive result is that MySQL cannot scale beyond 8 or 16 cores, or in some cases beyond just 2 cores (booo! ). In all cases performance went down when more than 24 cores were used .

http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/real-world-web-application-benchmarking/203367363919 Facebook has build custom web-app testing framework to test server performance. Read it, especially the section on why “standard” SPECxxx benchmarks are not a good measure of anything. Also, ready about performance-per-watt, as this is really important for modern data centers.

http://nag.ru/articles/article/19974/kak-my-10gigabit-na-linux-routere-marshrutizirovali.html