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SPECvirt* Benchmarks: Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4800 Family

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Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Extraordinary server reliability with automatic detection and correction of errors, dynamic reassignment of workloads across CPUs or servers in virtualized environments, and interconnect error detection and recovery.

Virtualized Consolidation server

    Virtualized consolidation on the SPECvirt_sc*2010

Virtualized consolidation on the SPECvirt_sc*2010

Virtualized consolidation on the SPECvirt_sc*2010

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Virtualized consolidation on the SPECvirt_sc*2010

SPECvirt_sc* replaces retired VMmark* 1, allowing for nearly any hypervisor, hardware, or software stack measuring performance and power (server only or server and storage). The benchmark was developed using an open-source software stack, but many software options are available for the six VMs in each tile. There is a QoS requirement and the result is the "supermetric" arithmetic mean of the mail, web, and application server throughput scores.

Benchmark description for SPECvirt_sc*2010

Virtualized servers enable faster ROI and lower TCO for the datacenters that are expanding and rapidly putting great strains on IT resources. The next generation Intel® Xeon® E7-4800 product family demonstrates the better option for managing the growth by consolidating heterogeneous applications onto a single server, but giving confidence that the enhanced reliability features means even the most business critical applications can be run quickly and reliably.

Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Virtualized Consolidation performance on SPECvirt_sc*2010 as of April 1, 2011

Competitive benchmark results reflect results published on www.spec.org. The comparison presented is based on the best performing 4-socket servers currently shipping by IBM. For the latest SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/virt_sc2010.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details

IBM System x 3850 X5 server platform* with four Intel Xeon processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 1TB memory, VMware* ESXi 4.1, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 5.5 (64-bit) on all VMs, Apache* 2.2.15 web server, WebSphere* Application Server 7.0.0.7, Dovecot* 2.0.7 mail server, IBM DB2* 9.7 database. Referenced as published score of 2742 @ 168 VMs. For more information, see www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results/res2011q1/virt_sc2010-20110208-00023-perf.html.

4-socket Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4870 based platform details

Hewlett-Packard ProLiant* DL580 G7 server platform with four Intel Xeon processor E7-4870 (30M cache, 2.40GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QuickPath Interconnect (Intel® QPI)), 1TB memory, VMware* ESX 4.1, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 5.5 (64-bit) on all VMs, Apache* 2.2.17 web server, Oracle GlassFish* Application Server 7.0.0.7, Dovecot* 2.0.9 mail server, PostgreSQL* 8.1.18 database. Referenced as submitted score of 3723 @ 228 VMs. For more information, see www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results/.

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