There's a lot you can do with a high-performance two-socket x64 server module based on the Next Generation AMD Opteron Dual-Core processors. The Sun Blade X6220 system's efficient, two-socket design leverages its 142Gpbs PCI-e I/O bandwidth and four 2.5-inch SAS or SATA disk drives to handle workloads normally deployed only on four-socket machines.
(Tue, 09 December 2008)
The Sun Blade X6220 Server Module Declares Victory on Prominent HPC Benchmark
The new World Record 4-thread performance on the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark, which is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications, places the Sun Blade X6220 server module ahead of competition in the High Performance Computing (HPC) market.
Sun's x64 systems have been dominant on HPC compute-intensive workloads using superior compiler software that delivers the best performance by providing optimizations tailored to a specific hardware platform or microprocessor architecture.
The combination of the Sun Studio 12 software (that consists of performance tools, Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and C, C++, and Fortran compilers) and Solaris 10 Operating system (OS), running on two Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 2222 processors (2 chips, 4 cores) resulted in SPECompM2001 score of 13868 on the medium size problem set of the benchmark.
The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops suites of benchmarks and also reviews and publishes submitted results from their member organizations and other benchmark licensees.
