IBM HS22V BLADECENTER - X5670 FOR SPEC CPU2006 Specification

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 PC3-
10600R memory, and SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 11 x64. (1)
For all other SPEC CPU2006 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), 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 published for this HS22V
processor model.
SPEC CPU2006
Benchmark
SPECint®2006
SPECint_base2006
SPECint_rate2006
SPECint_rate_base2006
SPECfp®2006
SPECfp_base2006
SPECfp_rate2006
SPECfp_rate_base2006
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 available
March 31, 2010. The HS22V as configured for this benchmark will be available March 31, 2010.
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IBM BladeCenter HS22V
Intel Xeon Processor X5670 – 2.93GHz
39.3
36.4
360
336
45.1
42.4
246
239