Sun's New World Record on SPECcpu
Tuesday Apr 14, 2009
Today Sun announced world records for SPECfp2006: 50.4 on a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570) Sun Blade X6270 as well as SPECint2006: 36.9 on a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570) Sun Blade X6270.
Read more at: http://blogs.sun.com/jhenning/entry/sun_studio_trounces_intel_compiler.
Yes, even on servers based on the same CPUs as others, Sun can make a difference. Congrats to those on the Sun Studio Compiler team. They beats Intel's own compiler on this Intel chip by 20%, due to the optimization technologies found in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler.
See John's posting above for more info. On a different note, notice how much information Sun puts out our benchmarks - lots! Fun to look at IBM bloggers, some of whom spend 90% of their blog on "cute" and only 10% talking about benchmark results. Information is not ones enemy.
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 4/14/2009. Sun Blade X6270 (Intel Xeon X5570 / 2 chips / 8 cores) 50.4 SPECfp2006, IBM System p 570 (POWER6, 1 chip / 1 core) 24.9 SPECfp2006.
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