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Intel® Xeon® processor 3300 series-based servers: Optimized for small business, these value-priced processors with moderate DDR2 memory platform capacity make this ideal as a first, small business server.

Benchmark description for SPECfp*_rate_base2006: SPECfp_rate_base2006 is a compute-intensive benchmark that measures the floating point throughput performance of a computer system carrying out a number of parallel tasks. The benchmark consists of a suite of seventeen floating point workloads developed from actual end-user applications. System throughput is measured by running multiple copies of the benchmark simultaneously with the number of copies typically set to the number of logical hardware cores seen by the operating system. The performance score reported is a measure of the throughput of the system measured in jobs/hour. Higher score indicates better performance.

Configuration details: Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (www.spec.org) published results as of April 4, 2008.

Intel® Pentium® D processor platform (score 19.8): Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY* RX100S4 server platform using one Intel Pentium D processor 945 3.40GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 800MHz bus, 8GB memory (4x2GB DDR2 PC4200E, 2-rank, CL4, ECC), 64-bit SUSE LINUX* Enterprise Server 10 2.6.16.21-08smp, Intel® C++ Compiler for IA32/EM64T version 9.1. Source www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q3/cpu2006-20070619-01288.html.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 3085 platform (score 30.5): Dell PowerEdge* R200 using Intel Xeon processor 3085 (3.00 GHz, 4 MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz bus), 8 GB (4x 2 GB DDR2-800), 64-bit SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Intel® C++ and Fortran Compiler for LINUX32 and LINUX64 version 10.1. Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q4/cpu2006-20071210-02855.html.

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X3230 platform (score 42.2): Acer Altos* G330Mk2 using Intel Xeon processor X3230 (2.66 GHz, 8 MB L2 cache, 1066 MHz bus), 8 GB (4x 2GB DDR2-800), 64-bit SuSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Intel® C++ Compiler and Fortran Compiler for LINUX version 10.1. Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2007q4/cpu2006-20071203-02758.html.

45nm Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X3360 platform (score 46.5): Fujitsu-Siemens* PRIMERGY* TX150 S6 server using Intel Xeon processor X3360 (2.83 GHz, 12 MB L2 cache, 1333 MHz bus, 45nm), 8 GB (4x 2 GB DDR2-800), 64-bit SuSE* LINUX Enterprise Server 10, Intel® C++ Compiler for LINUX32 and LINUX64 version 10.1. Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2008q1/cpu2006-20080218-03404.html.


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Relative performance for each benchmark is calculated by taking the actual benchmark result for the first platform tested and assigning it a value of 1.0 as a baseline. Relative performance for the remaining platforms tested was calculated by dividing the actual benchmark result for the baseline platform into each of the specific benchmark results of each of the other platforms and assigning them a relative performance number that correlates with the performance improvements reported.

SPECint*2006 and SPECfp*2006 benchmark tests reflect the performance of the microprocessor, memory architecture and compiler of a computer system on compute-intensive, 32-bit applications. SPEC benchmark tests results for Intel® microprocessors are determined using particular, well-configured systems. These results may or may not reflect the relative performance of Intel® microprocessor in systems with different hardware or software designs or configurations (including compilers). Buyers should consult other sources of information, including system benchmarks; to evaluate the performance of systems they are considering purchasing.

64-bit Intel® Xeon® processors with Intel® EM64T requires a computer system with a processor, chipset, BIOS, OS, device drivers and applications enabled for Intel EM64T. Processor will not operate (including 32-bit operation) without an Intel EM64T-enabled BIOS. Performance will vary depending on your hardware and software configurations. Intel EM64T-enabled OS, BIOS, device drivers and applications may not be available. Check with your vendor for more information.

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