New Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series based servers:
Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series based platforms deliver record-breaking performance for server applications beating the previous mark set by Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 5100 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.

Basis for comparison: The above chart compares published/submitted results to www.spec.org as of November 1, 2007.

Benchmark description for SPECweb*2005: SPECweb2005 is the next-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the performance of World Wide Web Servers. As the successor to SPECweb*99 and SPECweb*99_SSL, SPECweb2005 continues the SPEC tradition of giving Web users the most objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system's ability to act as a web server. In response to rapidly advancing Web technology, the SPECweb2005 benchmark includes many sophisticated and state-of-the-art enhancements to meet the modern demands of Web users of today and tomorrow. SPECweb2005 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 SPECweb2005 metric for a compliant result is the geometric mean of the three submetrics, normalized to a reference platform score. Accordingly, a SPECweb2005 score of 100, for example, would indicate the same overall performance as the reference platform. A score of 200 would indicate an overall performance that is double that of the reference platform, etc.

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Intel® Xeon® processor 3.80 GHz based platform details: Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY* TX300 S2 server platform with two Intel Xeon processors 3.80GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 16GB SDRAM, RedHat Enterprise* Linux* 4 2.6.9-22 ELsmp x86_64, Rock Web Server* v1.3 x86_64. Referenced as published at 4,555. For more information see http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2006q1/web2005-20060130-00021.html

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 based platform details: HP ProLiant* ML360 G5 server platform with two Intel Xeon processors 5160 3.00GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 32GB memory (8x4GB 667MHz ECC CL5 DDR2 FB-DIMM), RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 2.6.18-8.e15, Rock Web Server v1.4.1 (x86_64). Referenced as published at 15,193. For more information see http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2007q2/web2005-20070604-00068.html

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5365 based platform details: Powerleader Science & Technology* PR4700D server platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X5365 3.00GHz, 8MB L2 cache, 32GB memory (16x2G 667MHz ECC DDR2 FB-DIMM), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server* 10 SP1 kernel 2.6.16.46-0.12, Rock Web Server v1.4.3 x86_64. Referenced as published at 22,332. For more information see http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2007q4/web2005-20070927-00094.html

Dual-Core AMD Opteron processor* 2222 based platform details: HP ProLiant DL385 G2 server platform with two AMD Opteron processors 2222 3.00GHz, 2MB L2 cache, 32GB memory (8x4GB, PC2-5300 DIMMs, DDR2-667 with Advanced ECC), RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 2.6.18-8.EL5, Rock JSP/Servlet Container* v1.2.0 x86_64. Referenced as published at 15,734. For more information see http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/res2007q3/web2005-20070828-00079.html

Benchmark description for WebBench*: WebBench 5.0 (128-bit US version) is an industry-standard benchmark for Web server software and hardware. It uses PC clients to send Web requests to the server under test. It generates performance results by incrementally increasing the number of clients making HTTP 1.0 GET requests to the Web server; the result is a curve showing the performance of the server under test. The peak of that curve represents the peak throughput of the server. WebBench reports results in both the total number of requests per second the server handled and its total throughput in bytes per second. The charts here plot the total number of requests per second.

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Data source: Results published by Principled Technologies at http://www.principledtechnologies.com/clients/reports/Intel/X5355WebBench1106.pdf as of November 14, 2006.

Intel Xeon processor 3.60 GHz based platform details: Intel® preproduction server platform with two 64-bit Intel Xeon processors 3.60 GHz with 2MB L2 cache and 800 MHz system bus and 8GB (8x1024 MB) DDR2-400 memory, Microsoft Windows Server* x32 Enterprise Edition.

Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5160 based platform details: Intel preproduction server platform with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5160, 3.00 GHz with 4M L2 cache, dual 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8x1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory; Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition.

Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor X5355 based platform details: Intel preproduction server platform with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors X5355, 2.66 GHz with 2x4M L2 cache, 1333 MHz system bus, 8GB (8x1GB) 667MHz FB-DIMM memory, Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition.

Dual-Core AMD Opteron* processor model 2220SE based platform details: Server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors model 2220SE, 2.80GHz, 8GB PC3200 memory. Microsoft Windows Server x32 Enterprise Edition.

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