Intel Dual-Core Xeon® 5120 1.86 GHz FSB 1066 4 MB BX805565120P User Manual
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Benchmarks for Server and HPC Performance
Benchmark Description for SPECWeb*2005: SPECweb2005 evaluates the performance of World Wide Web Servers.SPECweb2005 consists of three separate, distinct workloads Banking,
Ecommerce, and Support. The result is the geometric mean of the three submetrics, normalized to a reference platform score.
Configuration Details: Data Source–Published/Submitted results as of May 23, 2006.
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2850 server platform with Two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2 Cache 16
GB DDR2, SUSE Linux* Enterprise Server 9 SP2 (default kernel 2.6.5-7.191-smp) Zeus Web Server* 4.2r4 (x86-64). Referenced as published at
http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2005q4/web2005-20051107-00017.html
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5160-based platform details: IBM System x3650* Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2 Cache, 1333
MHz system bus, 24 GB (12x2 GB) FBDIMM memory, 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4 AS Update 3 operating system, 64-bit Accoria Rock Web Server* 1.3.3 HTTPS software, and Apache
Tomcat* 5.5.9. Result submitted to www.spec.org for review at 9182 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 float-
ing 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 May 19, 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, 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 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/Submitted results as of May 23, 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, 8GB (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. Result submitted to
www.spec.org for review at 83 as of May 23, 2006.
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 May 19, 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 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, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a*. Result Submitted to
www.topcrunch.org as of 5/23/06.
Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2000: SPECint*_rate_base2000 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/Submitted results as of May 23, 2006.
Benchmark Description for SPECWeb*2005: SPECweb2005 evaluates the performance of World Wide Web Servers.SPECweb2005 consists of three separate, distinct workloads Banking,
Ecommerce, and Support. The result is the geometric mean of the three submetrics, normalized to a reference platform score.
Configuration Details: Data Source–Published/Submitted results as of May 23, 2006.
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 2.80 GHz-based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2850 server platform with Two Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 2.80 GHz with 2x2 MB L2 Cache 16
GB DDR2, SUSE Linux* Enterprise Server 9 SP2 (default kernel 2.6.5-7.191-smp) Zeus Web Server* 4.2r4 (x86-64). Referenced as published at
http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2005q4/web2005-20051107-00017.html
Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5160-based platform details: IBM System x3650* Server platform with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4 MB L2 Cache, 1333
MHz system bus, 24 GB (12x2 GB) FBDIMM memory, 64-bit Red Hat Enterprise Linux* 4 AS Update 3 operating system, 64-bit Accoria Rock Web Server* 1.3.3 HTTPS software, and Apache
Tomcat* 5.5.9. Result submitted to www.spec.org for review at 9182 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 float-
ing 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 May 19, 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, 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 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/Submitted results as of May 23, 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, 8GB (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. Result submitted to
www.spec.org for review at 83 as of May 23, 2006.
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 May 19, 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 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, LS-DYNA mpp970.5434a*. Result Submitted to
www.topcrunch.org as of 5/23/06.
Benchmark Description for SPECint*_rate_base2000: SPECint*_rate_base2000 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/Submitted results as of May 23, 2006.
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0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
1.0
0.0
1.0
2.0
3.0
4.0
1.0
SPECWeb2005*
1.89
Linpack
1.93
SPECfp_rate_base2000*
1.95
SPECint_rate_base2000*
2.07
LS-Dyna
1.96
SPECjbb2005*
2.30
Black-Scholes
2.78
SunGard ACR*
2.81
SPECjbb2005*
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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