Ibm HS22V BLADECENTER FOR SPECJBB2005 User Manual

IBM posts SPEC CPU2006 scores for BladeCenter HS22V server

March 16, 2010 ... IBM® today announces SPEC® CPU2006 benchmark scores for the IBM
BladeCenter® HS22V blade server using the new Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 Series.

The HS22V demonstrated competitive performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suites.
For the SPECint, SPECint_base, SPECfp and SPECfp_base benchmark measurements, the HS22V
was configured with two Quad-Core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (2.93GHz, 256KB L2 cache per
core and 12MB L3 cache per processor—2 processors/12 cores/24 threads), 24GB of DDR3 PC3­10600R memory, and SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 x64. (1)

For all other SPEC CPU2006 benchmark measurements, the HS22V was configured with two Quad­Core Intel Xeon X5670 processors (2.93GHz, 256KB L2 cache per core and 12MB L3 cache per
processor—2 processors/12 cores/24 threads), 96GB of DDR3 PC3-10600R memory, and SUSE
Linux® Enterprise Server 11 x64. (1)

The scores in the following table are the first SPEC CPU2006 results
processor model.

published for this HS22V

SPEC CPU2006

Benchmark

SPECint®2006 39.3
SPECint_base2006 36.4
SPECint_rate2006 360
SPECint_rate_base2006 336
SPECfp®2006 45.1
SPECfp_base2006 42.4
SPECfp_rate2006 246

SPECfp_rate_base2006 239

The IBM BladeCenter HS22V is a high-density blade that offers outstanding performance for
virtualization with new levels of memory capacity and processor performance. The HS22V blade is
optimized for virtualization with 18 DIMM slots supporting up to 144 GB of DDR3 memory for more
and larger virtual machines per blade. The HS22V is powered by the latest Intel Xeon 5600 and 5500
Series processors.

Results are current as of March 16, 2010. The scores have been submitted to SPEC for review and
will be posted on their Web site upon successful completion of the review. View all published results
at http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/.

(1) The HS22V model using the Intel Xeon X5670 processor is planned to be generally availabl e
March 31, 2010. The HS22V as configured for this benchmark will be available March 31, 2010.

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Intel Xeon Processor X5670 – 2.93GHz

IBM BladeCenter HS22V