Intel Multi-Core Server Specifications

Posted on September 1st, 2007

Results and Configuration Details:

Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2006: SPECint*_rate_base2006 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the integer throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/measured results as of August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Fujitsu Siemens* PRIMERGY RX600 S3 Server platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16 M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 16GB (8×1GB) memory, 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Kernel. SPEC binaries built with Intel C++ Compiler for Linux32 version 9.1. Referenced as published at 75.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q2/cpu2006-20070402-00725.html.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350, 2.93 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Kernel. SPEC binaries built with Intel C++ Compiler version 10.0 for Linux32.

Performance Per Watt Comparison using SPECjbb*2005 benchmark: SPECjbb2005 (SPEC Java Business Benchmark 2005) benchmark description: 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). Performance Per Watt calculated by dividing the performance by the measured average power during the performance window.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/measured results as of August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. BEA JRockit* 5.0 P27.2.0.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel? Xeon? Processor L7345, 1.86 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. BEA JRockit* 5.0 P27.2.0.

Benchmark Description for vConsolidate*: vConsolidate is a benchmark developed by Intel Corporation to measure Server Consolidation performance. This benchmark represents predominant use case of server application consolidation. Application types (web, database, mail, java) selected for consolidation are guided by market data. Benchmark scales thru CSUs (Consolidated Stack Unit). One CSU = 5 virtual machines. (4 Application Virtual machines and 1 Idle virtual machine)

Configuration Details: Data Source: Intel internal measurement August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 32GB (16×2GB) memory, vConsolidate benchmark Rev 1.0.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350, 2.93 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 32GB (16×2GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, vConsolidate benchmark Rev 1.0.

Benchmark Description for SunGard ACR*: 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: Intel internal measurement August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350, 2.93 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. SunGard Adaptiv Credit Risk 64-bit version workload.

Benchmark Description for SPECjbb*2005: (See text under Performance Per Watt)

Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/measured results as of August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 16GB (16×1GB) memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. BEA JRockit* 5.0 P27.2.0 JVM.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350, 2.93 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. BEA JRockit* 5.0 P27.2.0 JVM.

Benchmark Description for SPECfp*_rate_base2006: SPECfp*_rate_base2006 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the floating point throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks.

Configuration Details for SPECfp*_rate_base2006: Data Source?Measured results as of August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 16 GB (16×1GB) memory. 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Kernel. SPEC binaries built with Intel C++ Compiler for Linux64 version 9.1

Benchmark Description for Enterprise Resource Planning: Workload emulates a SAP*-based Sales and Distribution application and helps ERP. The performance result is a measure of the number of users supported by the server.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Intel internal measurement. August 2007.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7140M -based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Dual-Core Intel? Xeon? Processor 7140M, 3.40 GHz with 16M L3 Cache, 800 MHz system bus, 32 GB (16×2GB) memory, Linux SLES 10 OS.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with four Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X7350, 2.93 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1066 MHz system bus, 64 GB (16×4GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Linux SLES 10 OS.

Benchmark Description for Transaction Processing: This application evaluates the capacity of a database server in supporting transaction processing. It simulates execution of user transactions against a database in an order-entry environment. Performance measured in transactions per second.

Configuration Details: Data Source: Intel internal measurement. August 2007.

Configuration details for DP to MP comparison:

Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate2006: SPECfp*_rate2006 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the Integer throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks.

Configuration Details for SPECint*_rate2006: Data Source?Measured results as of August 2007.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5365-based platform details: Intel Server pre-production platform with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor X5365, 3.00 GHz with 2×4M L2 Cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 16 GB (8×2GB) memory. 64-Bit SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Kernel. SPEC binaries built with Intel C++ Compiler version 10.1

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Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.

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