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Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server

Performance

With highly scalable enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors and industry-leading memory capacity in a 1RU entry system, the Sun Fire X2200 M2 server is ideal for high-performance computing clusters running memory-intensive applications – such as Abacus, Fluent or PowerFLOW – or high-scale Web application architectures.

(Tue, 15 August 2006)

Twice the Winner on Industry-Standard Floating Point Benchmark

The Sun Fire X2200 server is the world's fastest 2-socket x86 system on the floating point suite of the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark. Based on real world applications, the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark measures the performance of the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system in two different ways. In the first case, the computer is given a single task, and the time it takes to complete that task is measured. In the second case, multiple copies of the benchmark are run simultaneously on the computer and, again, the amount of time it takes to accomplish the tasks is measured. As a result two scores are produced: SPECfp2000 and SPECfp_rate2000.

The Sun Fire X2200 server, driven by the Next-Generation AMD Opteron processor, in combination with Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 11 software, trumps the competition with SPECfp2000 score of 3338 and SPECfp_rate2000 result of 117, setting two new x86 world records in 2-socket category. These results surpass the Intel "Woodcrest"-based Dell PowerEdge 1950 SPECfp2000 score of 2818 by 18% and HP DL360 SPECfp_rate200 score of 85 by 38%.

SPECfp2000 Benchmark Results

SPECfp_rate2000 Benchmark Results

(Tue, 15 August 2006)

World Record 2 Socket 4-Thread Performance on SPEC OMPM2001 HPC Benchmark

This industry standard SPEC OMP benchmark is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications and consists of medium and large problem sets. The Sun Fire X2200 server with two Next-Generation AMD Opteron 2218 Series processors, running Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 11 software is the world's fastest 2 socket system running 4 threads. This winning combination allowed Sun's server to surpass the competition by posting 2chip/4core/4thread SPECompM2001 score of 12574.

Benchmark Results

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