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Tuesday December 09, 2008

3 new Sun Studio World Records with AMD quad-core Sun x64 servers
Sun announced today enhancements to the Sun Fire(TM) x64 servers and Sun Blade(TM) systems lineup.
The new lineup includes a newer rev of the quad-core Opteron chips, the so-called Shanghai processors.
The new world records are in the area of SPECint_rate, SPECompL2001 and SPECompM2001

Sun Fire X4440 server's (16 cores/4 chips/16 threads) SPECompL2001 result of 175,648 makes it the best-performing x86 system on the planet.
The versatile Sun Blade X6440 server module (16 cores/4 chips/16 threads) produced SPECompM2001 result of 35,896 is highest for a blade platform
Sun Fire X4600 server, equipped with eight Dual-Core AMD Opteron model 8384 processors produced the World Record SPECint_rate2006 score of 386.

These benchmarks are with OpenSolaris 2008.05 OS and Sun Studio Express 11/08 compilers. You can download OpenSolaris here and Sun Studio Express compilers here.

Required Disclosures:
SPEC, SPECint, SPECjbb, SPECweb and SPEComp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from http://www.spec.org and this announcement as of 12/6/2008.

Sun Blade X6440 server module (4 chips, 16 cores, 16 OMP threads), 35896 SPECompMpeak2001.
Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, 386 SPECint_rate2006.
Sun Fire X4440 server (4 chips, 16 cores, 16 OMP threads),175,648 SPECompLpeak2001.
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