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Sun Fire X2270 Server

$1,488. (US)

Performance

The 1RU Sun Fire X2270 server is powerful enough for large-scale HPC/grid computing and Web infrastructure deployments involving hundreds or thousands of systems. It is designed for web application hosting and commercial high performance computing.

(Tue, 14 April 2009)

The Sun Fire X2270 Server Is Top HPC System on SPEC OMPL2001 Benchmark

The Sun Fire X2270, Sun's newest 1RU server, is perfect for dense HPC installations and comes with necessary credentials, like the x86 world record on a large problem set of the SPEC OMP2001 benchmark that includes high-energy physics, weather modeling, and computational chemistry workloads.

The SPEC OMP benchmark represents workloads consists of medium and large problem sets that stress the computer's processor, memory, compilers and OpenMP implementation.

Benchmark Outcome

On the large problem set, which was designed for measuring and comparing systems with higher number of processing cores, the Sun Fire X2270 server, equipped with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors and running OpenSolaris 2008.1 with Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler software, posted the best x86 result.
The Sun Fire X2270 server (8 cores/2 chips/16 OMP threads) delivered a SPECompL2001 result of 254,318.
Sun utilized the freely available community-based version of the OS — OpenSolaris. Additionally, freely available Sun Studio compiler software that includes the latest features and capabilities specifically optimized for this particular architecture, was instrumental in landing this groundbreaking result.

Press Release

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