Performance

Server performance

Intel® Itanium® processor 9000 sequence

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800/4800/2800 product families overall summary

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8800 product family

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4800 product family

Intel® Xeon® processor E7-2800 product family

Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence

Intel® Xeon® processor E3 family


Server Benchmarks

Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence

Intel® Xeon® processor

The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency and reliability of the Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems make them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient and responsive.

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SPEC CPU2006* benchmark suite

 

Integer throughput performance on SPECint*_rate_base2006 benchmark

 

Benchmark description

SPEC CPU2006* is a benchmark to measure system efficiency during integer and floating point operations. It consists of an integer test suite containing 12 applications and a floating point test suite containing 17 applications which are extremely computing-intensive and concentrate on the CPU and memory. Other components, such as disk I/O and network, are not measured by this benchmark. SPEC CPU2006 contains two different methods of performance measurement: The first method "SPEED" determines the time required to complete a single task. The second method "rate" determines the throughput, i.e. how many tasks can be completed in parallel. Both methods are additionally subdivided into two measuring runs, "base" and "peak", which differ in the way the compiler optimization is used. The "base" values are always used when results are published the "peak" values are optional. The chart above shows "Base" Integer Throughput performance as measured by SPECint*_rate_base2006.

 

Floating point throughput performance on SPECfp*_rate_base2006 benchmark

 

Benchmark description

SPEC CPU2006* is a benchmark to measure system efficiency during integer and floating point operations. It consists of an integer test suite containing 12 applications and a floating point test suite containing 17 applications which are extremely computing-intensive and concentrate on the CPU and memory. Other components, such as disk I/O and network, are not measured by this benchmark. SPEC CPU2006 contains two different methods of performance measurement: The first method "SPEED" determines the time required to complete a single task. The second method "rate" determines the throughput, i.e. how many tasks can be completed in parallel. Both methods are additionally subdivided into two measuring runs, "base" and "peak", which differ in the way the compiler optimization is used. The "base" values are always used when results are published, the "peak" values are optional. The chart above shows "Base" Floating Point Throughput performance as measured by SPECfp_rate_base2006.

 

Integer SPEED performance on SPECint*_base2006 benchmark

 

Benchmark description

SPEC CPU2006* is a benchmark to measure system efficiency during integer and floating point operations. It consists of an integer test suite containing 12 applications and a floating point test suite containing 17 applications which are extremely computing-intensive and concentrate on the CPU and memory. Other components, such as disk I/O and network, are not measured by this benchmark. SPEC CPU2006 contains two different methods of performance measurement: The first method "SPEED" determines the time required to complete a single task. The second method "rate" determines the throughput, i.e. how many tasks can be completed in parallel. Both methods are additionally subdivided into two measuring runs, "base" and "peak", which differ in the way the compiler optimization is used. The "base" values are always used when results are published the "peak" values are optional. The chart above shows "Base" Integer SPEED performance as measured by SPECint_base2006.

 

Floating point SPEED performance on SPECfp*_base2006 benchmark

 

Benchmark description

SPEC CPU2006* is a benchmark to measure system efficiency during integer and floating point operations. It consists of an integer test suite containing 12 applications and a floating point test suite containing 17 applications which are extremely computing-intensive and concentrate on the CPU and memory. Other components, such as disk I/O and network, are not measured by this benchmark. SPEC CPU2006 contains two different methods of performance measurement: The first method "SPEED" determines the time required to complete a single task. The second method "rate" determines the throughput, i.e. how many tasks can be completed in parallel. Both methods are additionally subdivided into two measuring runs, "base" and "peak", which differ in the way the compiler optimization is used. The "base" values are always used when results are published the "peak" values are optional. The chart above shows "Base" Floating Point SPEED performance as measured by SPECfp_base2006.


Application server

 

Performance on SPECjAppServer2004* benchmark

 

Benchmark description for SPECjAppServer2004*

SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server) is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition* (J2EE) technology-based application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is an end-to-end application which exercises all major J2EE technologies implemented by compliant application servers as follows:

  • The web container, including servlets and JSPs
  • The EJB container
  • EJB2.0 Container Managed Persistence
  • JMS and Message Driven Beans
  • Transaction management
  • Database connectivity

Moreover, SPECjAppServer2004 also heavily exercises all parts of the underlying infrastructure that make up the application environment, including hardware, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers, and the system network. For more information see www.spec.org.


Enterprise resource planning server

 
 

Enterprise Resource Planning Performance on SAP-SD* 2-Tier benchmark

 

Benchmark description for SAP-SD* two-tier

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates several data sources and processes of an organization into a unified system. SAP*- Sales and Distribution (SD) is a product by SAP* that helps to optimize all the tasks and activities carried out in sales, delivery and billing. Key elements are: presales support, inquiry processing, quotation processing, sales order processing, delivery processing, billing and sales information system. The SAP-SD benchmark has a defined set of business transactions that one or more users repeat. Each transaction is full business workflow of an order line item - creating the order, creating a delivery note for this order, displaying the order, changing the delivery, posting a goods issue, listing orders and creating an invoice. The reported metric is the number of SD users that is supported by the Server.


E-Commerce/Java*

 
 

Java performance on SPECjbb*2005 benchmark

 

Benchmark description for SPEC Java Business Benchmark* 2005 jbb2005

SPEC Java Business Benchmark 2005* jbb*2005. 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).


Web server

 
 

Web server performance on SPECweb*2005 benchmark

 

Benchmark description for SPECweb*2005

SPECweb*2005 evaluates the performance of World Wide Web Servers. This benchmark gives Web users an objective and representative way for measuring a system's ability to act as a web server. SPECweb*2005 consists of three separate, distinct workloads, each with its own submetric: SPECweb*2005_Banking, SPECweb*2005_Ecommerce, and SPECweb*2005_Support. While the individual submetric scores do indicate the total number of simultaneous user sessions the server can support, the overall SPECweb*2005 metric for a compliant result is the geometric mean of the three submetrics, normalized to a reference platform score.


SPECjEnterprise2010* server

 

Performance on SPECjEnterprise2010* benchmark

 

Benchmark description

The SPECjEnterprise2010* benchmark is a full system benchmark which allows performance measurement and characterization of Java* EE 5.0 servers and supporting infrastructure such as JVM, Database, CPU, disk and servers.

The workload consists of an end to end web based order processing domain, an RMI and Web Services driven manufacturing domain and a supply chain model utilizing document based Web Services. The application is a collection of Java classes, Java Servlets, Java Server Pages , Enterprise Java Beans, Java Persistence Entities (pojo's) and Message Driven Beans. See www.spec.org for more information.


Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series-based servers

The Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series can dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide unmatched business capabilities. This groundbreaking intelligent server technology features:

  • Intelligent performance that automatically optimizes performance to fit business and application requirements.
  • Automated energy efficiency that scales energy usage to the workload to achieve optimal performance/watt.
  • Flexible and more secure virtualization that offers best-in-class performance and manageability, along with features to speed up encryption and enable more secure virtual machines.

Standard high-volume business servers, high-performance computing (HPC) systems, and workstations built with the Intel® microarchitecture, codename Nehalem offer an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically advance the efficiency of IT infrastructure and provide unmatched business capabilities.

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