Intel Xeon 5138 HH80556JH0464M User Manual
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HH80556JH0464M
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Benchmarks for Server and HPC Performance
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.top500.org/.
Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/Measured results as of June 2007.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Intel preproduction software development platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2
MB L2 Cache and 800 MHz system bus and 8 GB (8x1024 MB) DDR2-400 memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 3, Update 3, Intel® EM64T, Intel Linpack 2.1.2.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Intel preproduction customer reference board with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2
Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1 GB) 667 MHz FBDIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4, Update 2, Intel® EM64T, Intel Linpack 3.0.1.
Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2000: SPECint*_rate_base2000 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the integer throughput performance of a computer sys-
tem carrying out a number of parallel tasks.
Configuration Details: Data Source – Published results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: IBM eServer xSeries* 346 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2
Cache and 800 MHz system bus 8 GB (8x1 GB) DDR2 memory, Microsoft Windows Server*2003, standard Edition. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.0. Referenced as published
at 59.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2005q4/cpu2000-20051006-04904.html.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2950 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4M L2 Cache,
1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1GB) DDR2 FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003. SPEC binaries built with Intel® C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Referenced as published at 123. For more
information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q2/cpu2000-20060501-05940.html.
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.
Configuration Details for SPECfp*_rate_base2000: Data Source–Published results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: FSC Primergy RX300* S2 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2
Cache 800 MHz system bus, 4 GB DDR2, 64-Bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux* AS release 4 update 1 Kernel 2.6.9-11.ELsmp on an x86_64 Intel C++ and Fortran Compiler 9.0 for Intel® EM64T
Build 20050914 (for 64-bit applications). Referenced as published at 42.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2005q4/cpu2000-20051004-04899.html.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2950 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2 Cache,
1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1GB) FB-DIMM memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4 Advanced Server Update 3 Intel® EM64T. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.0. Referenced as
published at 83.4. For more information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060626-06269.html.
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.
Configuration Details: Data Source – Published/Measured results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Intel preproduction software development platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2
MB L2 Cache and 800 MHz system bus and 8 GB (8x1024 MB) DDR2-400 memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 3, Update 3, Intel® EM64T, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a*.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Intel® preproduction customer reference board with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4M L2
Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8x1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 2, EM64T, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a. Result at
http://www.topcrunch.org/benchmark_details.sfe?query=2&id=562.
Benchmarks for Performance Per Watt Comparison
Benchmark Description for Black-Scholes: The Black-Scholes kernel workload is based on a financial modeling algorithm for the pricing of European-style options. The benchmark consists
of a kernel that implements a derivative of the Black and Scholes technique.
Configuration Details: Data Source–Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/WBlack_Scholes_0506.pdf as of May 23,
2006.
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.top500.org/.
Configuration Details: Data Source: Published/Measured results as of June 2007.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Intel preproduction software development platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2
MB L2 Cache and 800 MHz system bus and 8 GB (8x1024 MB) DDR2-400 memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 3, Update 3, Intel® EM64T, Intel Linpack 2.1.2.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Intel preproduction customer reference board with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2
Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1 GB) 667 MHz FBDIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4, Update 2, Intel® EM64T, Intel Linpack 3.0.1.
Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2000: SPECint*_rate_base2000 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the integer throughput performance of a computer sys-
tem carrying out a number of parallel tasks.
Configuration Details: Data Source – Published results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: IBM eServer xSeries* 346 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2
Cache and 800 MHz system bus 8 GB (8x1 GB) DDR2 memory, Microsoft Windows Server*2003, standard Edition. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.0. Referenced as published
at 59.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2005q4/cpu2000-20051006-04904.html.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2950 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4M L2 Cache,
1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1GB) DDR2 FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003. SPEC binaries built with Intel® C/C++ Compiler 9.1. Referenced as published at 123. For more
information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q2/cpu2000-20060501-05940.html.
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.
Configuration Details for SPECfp*_rate_base2000: Data Source–Published results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: FSC Primergy RX300* S2 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2
Cache 800 MHz system bus, 4 GB DDR2, 64-Bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux* AS release 4 update 1 Kernel 2.6.9-11.ELsmp on an x86_64 Intel C++ and Fortran Compiler 9.0 for Intel® EM64T
Build 20050914 (for 64-bit applications). Referenced as published at 42.5. For more information see http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/res2005q4/cpu2000-20051004-04899.html.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2950 Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2 Cache,
1333 MHz system bus, 8 GB (8x1GB) FB-DIMM memory, Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4 Advanced Server Update 3 Intel® EM64T. SPEC binaries built with Intel C/C++ Compiler 9.0. Referenced as
published at 83.4. For more information see http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2006q3/cpu2000-20060626-06269.html.
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.
Configuration Details: Data Source – Published/Measured results as of June 2006.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Intel preproduction software development platform with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2
MB L2 Cache and 800 MHz system bus and 8 GB (8x1024 MB) DDR2-400 memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 3, Update 3, Intel® EM64T, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a*.
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160-based platform details: Intel® preproduction customer reference board with two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4M L2
Cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8x1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Update 2, EM64T, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a. Result at
http://www.topcrunch.org/benchmark_details.sfe?query=2&id=562.
Benchmarks for Performance Per Watt Comparison
Benchmark Description for Black-Scholes: The Black-Scholes kernel workload is based on a financial modeling algorithm for the pricing of European-style options. The benchmark consists
of a kernel that implements a derivative of the Black and Scholes technique.
Configuration Details: Data Source–Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/WBlack_Scholes_0506.pdf as of May 23,
2006.
0.0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
1.0
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
1.0
LS-Dyna
1.96
SPECfp*_rate_base2000
1.96
SPECint*_rate_base2000
2.07
Linpack*
2.12
Black-Scholes
2.78
SunGard ACR*
2.81
SPECjbb*2005
3.05
SPECint*_rate_base2000
3.60
Baseline
Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 2.80 GHz with 2x2M L2 Cache
Baseline
64-bit Intel® Xeon® processor 3.60 GHz with 2M L2 Cache (Single Core)
Superior Performance and Performance Per Watt with
New Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5100 Series
New Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor 5100 Series
Performance Per Watt Comparison
Server and HPC Performance
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