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Tuesday November 18, 2008

Sun Studio Express 11/08 + Shanghai server module = new SPEComp World Record
Sun's newest blade, Sun Blade X6440, server module powered by the latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors code-named "Shanghai" posted the best x86 16-thread result on the prominent HPC SPECompM2001 benchmark with the newly released Sun Studio Express 11/08 compilers on OpenSolaris 2008.05. SPEComp is often used as a barometer of performance for shared memory compute-intensive scientific applications, so this is a great announcement during the ongoing Supercomputing 2008.conference.
The Blade server module was announced as part of Sun's Technology Demos highlighting a new Open Petascale computing environment called the Sun Constellation.

Required Disclosure: SPEC and SPEComp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from http://www.spec.org and this announcement as of 11/16/2008.
Sun Blade X6440 (4 x AMD Opteron 8384 chips, 16 cores, 4 cores/chip, 16 threads) SPECompM2001 - 35,896.
Posted by tatkar ( Nov 18 2008, 05:33:11 PM PST ) Permalink Comments [0]