IBM System x3455 delivers solid performance on SPEC CPU2006
x3455 posts competitive SPEC CPU2006 scores for a 2-socket quad-core system
September 10, 2007 ... The IBM® System x™ 3455 server excels at the compute-intensive applications used in high-performance clustering environments. The highly manageable, ultrathin 1U, rack-optimized platform is a 2-socket-, 8-core-capable server designed for high performance
at an affordable price. (1) The x3455 server features AMD Opteron™ quad-core processors and IBM’s Xcelerated Memory Technology™, which enables faster access to data, and helps provide outstanding performance
for large memory configurations with the ability to support 667MHz memory access speed of fully populated memory. The x3455 supports up to 48GB of PC2-5300 667MHz ECC DDR2 memory with IBM Chipkill technology for high performance and reliability. In addition, the AMD Opteron quad-core processors used by the x3455 incorporate AMD’s dual dynamic power management technology designed to increase performance per watt while reducing power consumption.
The x3455, using the quad-core AMD Opteron 2347 processor (1.9GHz, 512KB L2 cache per core—2 processors/8 cores/8 threads), demonstrated competitive performance for a 2-socket AMD system on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite. These results were achieved using SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 SP1.
The scores in the table are the first SPEC CPU2006 results published for this x3455 processor model.
SPEC CPU2006
Benchmark
x3455 – Quad-Core AMD Opteron Model 2347 Processor
(1.9GHz, 512KB L2 Cache per Core)
SPECint2006 11.3
SPECint_rate2006 83.2
SPECint_rate_base2006 72.8
SPECfp2006 11.2
SPECfp_rate2006 73.0
SPECfp_rate_base2006 68.5
Results are current as of September 10, 2007. 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
www.spec.org.
(1) Planned availability for the x3455 model using the AMD Opteron Model 2347 processor
(1.9GHz, 512KB L2 cache per core) is November 16, 2007.