New Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5400 series based servers:
New Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series based servers, HPC systems, and workstations are built with 45nm enhanced Intel® Core™ microarchitecture previously code-named "Penryn". The Intel® 45nm technology uses high-k dielectric materials that are expected to fuel the ongoing performance advantages predicted by Moore's Law for years to come, and significantly increases the transistor density over the previous Intel® 65nm technology. This second generation Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5400 series based platforms extends the Performance, Energy-Efficiency and Virtualization leadership established by the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5300 series. The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency and reliability of the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems make them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient and responsive.

Benchmark description for SPECjbb*2005:
SPEC Java* Business Benchmark 2005 (jbb2005). Written in Java, this multi-threaded benchmark emulates an order processing environment in a company with multiple warehouses serving multiple customers. Measures average transaction throughput of a heavily loaded server. Performance reported in Business Operations per Second (BOPS).

Configuration details: The above chart compares published/submitted results to www.spec.org as of November 11, 2007.

Intel® Xeon® processor 3.60GHz based platform details: Intel® pre-production server platform with two 64-bit Intel Xeon processors 3.60GHz with 2MB L2 cache, 800MHz system bus, 8GB (8x1GB) DDR2, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003. BEA JRockit* 5.0 JVM. Measured at 43,156 bops and bops/jvm.

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 based platform details: Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY* BX620 S3, two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5160, 3.00GHz, 4M L2 cache, 1333MHz system bus, 8x1GB DDR2-RAM PC2-5300F memory, Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition + SP1, BEA JRockit 5.0 P27.2.0 (build P27.2.0-12-76845-1.5.0_10-20070213-1010-windows-x86_64). Measured at 138,388 bops and 138,388 bops/jvm. For more information see http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2007q1/jbb2005-20070213-00254.html

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5365 based platform details: HP ProLiant* DL380 G5 server platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X5365 3.00GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 1333MHz FSB, 32GB memory (8x4GB PC2-5300F), BEA JRockit 6 P27.4.0-10 (build P27.4.0-10-90053-1.6.0_02-20071009-1827-windows-x86_64), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1. Referenced as published at 250,918 bops and 62,730 bops/JVM. For more information see http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2007q4/jbb2005-20071023-00391.html

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5460 based platform details: Dell PowerEdge* 2950 server platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X5460 3.16GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 1333MHz FSB, 16GB memory (8x2GB DDR2-667 FBDIMM), BEA JRockit 6.0 P27.4.0 (build P27.4.0-10-90053-1.6.0_02-20071009-1827-windows-x86_64), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1. Measured at 303,130 SPECjbb2005 bops and 75783 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.

Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor model 2224SE based platform details: Tyan Thunder* h2000M (S3992) with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors 2224SE 3.20GHz, 2MB L2 cache, memory 16GB (8x2GB DDR2-667 CL5), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1 (64-bit), BEA JRockit 5.0 P27.2.0 (build P27.2.0-19-82330-1.5.0_10-20070515-1627-windows-x86_64). Measured at 103,093 bops and 51,547 bops/JVM. For more information see http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/res2007q3/jbb2005-20070731-00344.html

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