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SPECint*_rate_base2000: Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/measured results as of Oct 09, 2006.

• Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: AMD Tyan Thunder K9QE Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz with 1MB L2 Cache, 4GB (8×512MB) DDR2-667 memory. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 (64-bit) OS, SPEC binaries built with PathScale EKOPath(TM) Compiler. Referenced as published at 78.3. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060721-06584.html
• Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5345 based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5345, 2.33 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Measured at 183.
• Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Measured at 198.

Benchmark Description for SPECjbb™2005: SPEC Java Business Benchmark 2005 (jbb2005). Written in Java, this multi-threaded benchmark emulates an order processing environment in a company with multiple warehouses serving multiple customers. Measures average transaction throughput of a heavily loaded server. Performance reported in Business Operations per Second (BOPS).

Configuration Details:

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Dell PowerEdge 2950* Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 16GB (8×2GB) 667MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition + SP1, BEA JRockit(R) 5.0 P27.1.0. Measured at 210,065 bops and 105,033 bops/jvm. Referenced as published. For more information see http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2006q4/jbb2005-20061107-00212.html
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Tyan Computer Corporation Thunder K9QE (S4985)* Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz with 2×1MB L2 Cache, 8GB (8×1024MB) DDR2-667 memory. Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1 (64-bit) IBM Corporation IBM J9 VM. Referenced as published at 80617 bops and 40,309 bops/jvm. For more information see

Benchmark Description for SPECfp™_rate_base2000: SPECfp*_rate_base2000 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the floating point throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks. The benchmark consists of a suite fourteen floating point workloads developed from actual end-user applications. System throughput is measured by running multiple copies of the benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies typically set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. The performance score reported is a measure of the throughput of the system measured in jobs/hour. Higher score indicates better performance.

Configuration Details for SPECfp™_rate_base2000 (Linux):

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY RX300 S3* Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) DDR2 memory, 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10. SPEC binaries built with Intel® C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Referenced as published at 104. Results at http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2006q4/cpu2000-20061030-07819.html
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Tyan Thunder K9QE (S4985)* Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz with 2×1MB L2 cache, 4GB (8×512MB) DDR2-667 memory. SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3 (64-bit), SPEC binaries built with PathScale EKOPath(TM) Compiler Suite, Release 2.3. Referenced as published at 87.9. For more information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060721-06583.html

Configuration Details for SPECfp™_rate_base2000 (Windows):

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel® Server pre-production platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition. SPEC binaries built with Intel® C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Referenced as published at 103. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2006q4/cpu2000-20061113-07927.html
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Tyan Thunder K9QE (S4985)* Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz with 2×1MB L2 cache, 8×512MB, DDR2-667. Windows Server 2003 Enterprise SP1. SPEC binaries built with Intel® C/C++ Compiler 9.0. Referenced as published at 76.6. For more information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060721-06569.html

Benchmark Description for TPC-C: OLTP – On-Line Transaction Processing; represents the transaction throughput of a database server in an OLTP client/server environment. TPC-C* measures the power and capacity of database software and server hardware in transactions per minute.

Configuration Details:

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: HP ProLiant ML370 G5* platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, (2 processors / 8 cores / 8 threads), 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 64 GB (16×4GB) FBDimm memory, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Database Software Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition. Referenced as published at 240,737 tpmC; $1.85/tpmC; Availability Date as listed in the submitted report is February 1, 2007. Results at http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=106111301
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220 based platform details: HP Proliant DL385 G2 server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE 2.80GHz, (2 processors / 4 cores / 4 threads), 32GB (8×4GB) DDR2 memory, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition, Database Software Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition. Referenced as published at 139,693 tpmC; $2.28/tpmC; Availability Date as listed in the submitted report is April 19, 2007. For more information see http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=106110901

Benchmark Description for SAP-SD 2-Tier:SAP-SD measures the performance of Enterprise resource planning servers using mySAP Business suite. It benchmark result is a measure of the number of SAP Sales and Distribution users (SAP-SD) supported by the server.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/Submitted results as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: HP ProLiant BL480c* platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 32GB 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SQL Server 2005 database, SAP ECC Release 6.0. Results published at http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert8006.pdf at 1,806 users.
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2218 based platform details: HP ProLiant BL25p G2* Server with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Model 2218 2.6 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache per core, 16 GB main memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. SQL Server 2005 database. SAP ECC Release 5.0. Referenced as published at http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/pdf/cert6406.pdf at 1047 SD Users.

Benchmark Description for Lotus Domino: The benchmark simulates active “users” using Domino* Web Access, Domino* web client. The benchmark result is a measure of the number of users supported by the server. It measures results in Transactions per minute.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/Submitted/Measured results as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel Server Pre-Production platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 32GB 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 SP3. 22,000 concurrent, active users; Transactions per minute throughput value of 30,379.
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron Processor Model 285 based platform details: HP Proliant DL385 Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 285, 2.60GHz, 8GB memory. Windows Server 2003 OS. 17,000 concurrent, active users; Transactions per minute throughput value of 13,927.Referenced as published at http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/cache/70441-0-0-225-121.html

Benchmark Description for WebBench: WebBench 5.0 (128-bit US version) is an industry-standard benchmark for Web server software and hardware. It uses PC clients to send Web requests to the server under test. It generates performance results by incrementally increasing the number of clients making HTTP 1.0 GET requests to the Web server; the result is a curve showing the performance of the server under test. The peak of that curve represents the peak throughput of the server. WebBench reports results in both the total number of requests per second the server handled and its total throughput in bytes per second. The charts here plot the total number of requests per second.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/Intel.htm as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel® preproduction Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition.
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz, 8GB PC3200 memory. Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition.

Benchmark Description for SPECWeb™2005: SPECweb2005 is the next-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the performance of World Wide Web Servers. As the successor to SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL, SPECweb2005 continues the SPEC tradition of giving Web users the most objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system’s ability to act as a web server. In response to rapidly advancing Web technology, the SPECweb2005 benchmark includes many sophisticated and state-of-the-art enhancements to meet the modern demands of Web users of today and tomorrow. SPECweb2005 consists of three separate, distinct workloads, each with its own submetric: SPECweb2005_Banking, SPECweb2005_Ecommerce, and SPECweb2005_Support. While the individual submetric scores do indicate the total number of simultaneous user sessions the server can support, the overall SPECweb2005 metric for a compliant result is the geometric mean of the three submetrics, normalized to a reference platform score. Accordingly, a SPECweb2005 score of 100, for example, would indicate the same overall performance as the reference platform. A score of 200 would indicate an overall performance that is double that of the reference platform, etc.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/Submitted result as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S3* Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 32GB(8×4GB)DDRII-RAM PC2-5300F memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 ES U4, Rock Web Server v1.4.0. Referenced as published at 18,160. For information see http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2006q4/web2005-20061107-00056.html
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 285 based platform details: HP ProLiant DL145 G2* Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 285, 2.6GHz with 2×1MB L2 Cache, 16GB (8×2GB) PC3200 memory. 64-Bit RHEL 4 U2 (2.6.9-22 ELsmp x86_64). 64-bit Accoria Rock Web Server 1.3.3 HTTPS software, and Apache Tomcat 5.5.9. Referenced as published at 11,293. For more information see http://www.spec.org/osg/web2005/results/res2006q4/web2005-20061019-00048.html

Benchmark Description for Linpack: Linpack is a floating-point benchmark that solves a dense system of linear equations in parallel. The metric produced is Giga-FLOPS or billions of floating point operations per second. The benchmark is used to determine the world’s fastest computers at the website http://www.topcrunch.org/

Configuration Details: Data Source: Measured/Published/Submitted results as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Verari Systems RM2220 Server with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 8M L2 Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 4, EM64T, Intel® Linpack 3.0.1 For additional product information go to: http://www.verari.com/RM1220_dual_Xeon.asp
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 280 based platform details: IBM eServer e326m* server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 280, 2.40GHz, Results published at: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/wp_e326m_121305.pdf

Benchmark Description for Fluent: Fluent is a commercial engineering application used to model computational fluid dynamics. The benchmark consists of 9 standard workloads organized into small, medium and large models. These comparisons use all but the largest of the models which does not fit into the 8GB of memory available on the platforms. The Rating, the default Fluent metric, was used in calculating the ratio of the platforms by taking a geometric mean of the 8 workload ratings measured.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Measured/Published/Submitted results as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: IBM System x3650* server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 8M L2 Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 12GB (12×1GB) FB-DIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4, Nahant update 4, EM64T, Fluent 6.3. Results at http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/flbench_6.3.x/fullres.htm
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 275 based platform details: IBM LS20 platform with two 2.2Ghz L2 Cache 2 x 1024KB. Publicly available benchmark numbers cited:http://www.fluent.com/software/fluent/fl5bench/flbench_6.2/fullres.htm

Benchmark Description for LS-DYNA: LS-DYNA is a commercial engineering application used in finite element analysis such as a car collision. The workload used in these comparisons is called 3 Vehicle Collision and is publicly available from http://www.topcrunch.org/. The metric for the benchmark is elapsed time in seconds.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Measured/Published/Submitted results as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: IBM System x3650* server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 8M L2 Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 12GB (12×1GB) FB-DIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4, Nahant update 4, EM64T, LS-DYNA mpp970s. Result at http://www.topcrunch.org/benchmark_details.sfe?query=2&id=543
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 285 based platform details: HP DL145 platform with two 2.6Ghz L2 Cache 2 x 1024KB. Publicly available benchmark numbers cited: http://www.topcrunch.org/benchmark_details.sfe?query=2&id=525

Description for SunGard Application: SunGard ACR is a financial services application. Per SunGard, “SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk (ACR) provides a total, real-time credit risk solution for counterparty credit exposure aggregation, global limit management, credit risk analytics and collateral management.” This workload analyzes a large portfolio of client assets and generates a credit risk evaluation. The more quickly the workload completes, the more quickly the user receives the evaluation, so improving performance can improve productivity. SunGard developed the Adaptiv Credit Risk workload and supplied the computational engine and financial data.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/Intel.htm as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel® preproduction Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition. SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz, 8GB PC3200 memory. Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition. SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload

Description for Black-Scholes: The Black-Scholes kernel workload is based on a financial modeling algorithm for the pricing of European-style options. After its publication in 1973 by Fisher Black, Myron Scholes, and Robert Merton, its impact was enormous and rapid. The benchmark consists of a kernel that implements a derivative of the Black and Scholes technique. SunGard developed the code, which uses a continuous-fraction technique that is more accurate than the traditional polynomial approximation technique. The test produces the time, in seconds, the server took to complete the workload; lower completion times are better.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/Intel.htm as of November 14, 2006.

• Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355 based platform details: Intel® preproduction Server platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory; Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition. Black-Scholes 64-bit version kernel workload.
• Dual-Core AMD Opteron* Processor Model 2220SE based platform details: Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor Model 2220SE, 2.80GHz, 8GB PC3200 memory. Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition. Black-Scholes 64-bit version kernel workload.

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