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Sun Inner Circle Newsletter - August 2006

 
 
Sun Blade 8400 Modular Server vs. HP and IBM Blade Servers
  Sun Blade 8400 Modular Server HP BL45p IBM HS40 Sun's advantage
Processor Opteron 885 Opteron 885 Xeon MP Thumb's Up
Number of processors 4 4 4  
Number of Cores 8 8 4 Thumb's Up
Memory capacity (GB) and speed (Mhz) 64GB/400MHz 32GB/400MHz
64GB/266MHz
16GB/266MHz Thumb's Up
Standard Network - 4 x GbE 2 x GbE  
IO slots 6 2 1 Thumb's Up
Hot plug IO slots 6 0 0 Thumb's Up
Fans Hot plug redundant Non hot plug Hot plug redundant Thumb's Up
Disks 2 hot plug 2 hot plug 2 non-hot plug Thumb's Up
 
Performance*
SPECint_rate2000 156 155 -  
SPECfp_rate2000 182 144 -  
SPECOMPM2001 19,653 - -  
SPECJBB2005 121,225 - -  
 
Power consumed
64GB, max disks, max IO (W) 7,175 Calculate for yourself with the HP Power Calculator Calculate for yourself with the IBM Power Calculator  
32GB, max disks, Max IO (W) 6,695 Calculate for yourself with the HP Power Calculator Calculate for yourself with the IBM Power Calculator  
16GB, max disks, max IO (W) 6,455 Calculate for yourself with the HP Power Calculator Calculate for yourself with the IBM Power Calculator  

Note: IBM HS40 is no longer actively marketed and to date (7/2006) no replacement has been announced

*SPEC and the benchmark names SPECint, SPEComp, SPECfp, SPECweb and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun's results have been submitted to SPEC. For the latest benchmark results visit http://www.spec.org. For comparison purposes, the terms CPU, chip and processor are used interchangeably. See complete benchmark details: http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/8000/benchmarks.jsp