SPEC CPU2006 X64 World Record on Sun Fire X2250
Thursday Oct 16, 2008
Sun has a new World Record x86 Result on SPEC CPU2006 on Sun Fire X2250 server (Quad-Core Intel X5482). This was done on OpenSolaris 2008.05 which is Sun's open-sourced operating environment. If you are interested in single-thread floating-point performance, here is a benchmark for you.
The Sun Fire X2250 server delivered a result of 27.8 for SPECfp2006.
System software, especially compilers and operating systems, are key to delivering high performance on servers. Sun Studio compilers and the community-developed OpenSolaris operating system have enabled the Sun Fire X2250 server to achieve score of 27.8 SPECfp2006.
Competitive Landscape
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected recent results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.
SPECfp2006
Go here for all SPECfp2006 results.
| System | # cores | # chips | cores /chip |
Processor | peak | base |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X2250 | 8 | 2 | 4 | Intel Xeon QC X5482 | 27.8 | 25.8 |
| IBM System x 3450 (Intel Xeon X5482) | 8 | 2 | 4 | Intel Xeon QC X5482 | 26.9 | 25.8 |
| HP DL160 G5 | 4 | 2 | 2 | Intel Xeon DC X5272 | 25.3 | 21.8 |
| IBM Power 595 (5.0 GHz 1 core) | 1 | 1 | 2 | POWER6 DC | 24.9 | 20.1 |
Results as of 15 Oct 2008 from www.spec.org.
Benchmark Description
SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.
Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.
The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 10/15/08. Sun Fire X2250 (Intel QC X5482, 2chips/8cores, OpenSolaris 2008.05) 27.8 SPECfp2006; IBM System x 3450 (Intel QC X5482, 2chips/8cores) 26.9 SPECfp2006; HP DL160 G5 (Intel Xeon DC X5272, 2chips/4cores) 25.3 SPECfp2006; IBM Power 595 (5.0 GHz 1 core, POWER6 DC) 24.9 SPECfp2006.
Results Summary
| Reference Date: | Oct 15, 2008 | ||
| System: | Sun Fire X2250 | ||
| Result: | SPECfp2006 27.8 | ||
| Processors: | 2 x Intel X5482 3.2GHz | ||
| Software: | OpenSolaris 2008.05 using Sun Studio Express 11/08 | ||
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