Intel® Xeon® processor E3 family
Small business servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family deliver outstanding performance at a great value, enabling small businesses to manage their IT investments smarter.
High Performance Computing
Computational chemistry performance using Amber*
Computational chemistry performance using Amber*
PS/day normalized to 1.0 baseline of Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 performance
Benchmark description for Amber* 10
The Amber* benchmark is a package of molecular simulation programs. The workload measures the number of problems solved (PS) per day using nine standard molecular dynamic simulations. For more information, visit the Amber* website at www.ambermd.org.
Configuration details Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1200 product family
Intel estimates as of January 2011
45nm Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 platform (score 1.00)
Intel® Server Board S3420GP with one Intel® Xeon® processor X3480 (quad-core, 3.06GHz, 8MB L3 cache), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, 8GB memory (4x 2GB DDR3-1333 REG ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 for x86_64. Source: Intel estimates as of May 2010. Geomean score of nine workloads: 1,310 ps/day.
32nm Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1280 platform (score 1.24)
Intel® C206 chipset with one Intel® Xeon® processor E3-1280 (quad-core, 3.5GHz, 8MB L3 cache), Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, 8GB memory (2x 4GB DDR3-1333 Unbuffered ECC), 160GB SATA 7200RPM HDD, Red Hat* Enterprise Linux Server 5.5 for x86_64 with kernel 2.6.35.10. Source: Intel estimates as of Jan 2011. Geomean score of nine workloads: 1,619 ps/day.
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