Date: 26-Nov-2009 URL: www.sun.com/servers/x64/x4170/performance.xml

Sun Fire X4170 Server

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(Tue, 14 April 2009)

The Sun Fire X4170 Posts Leading Score on Compute-Intensive SPECint2006 Benchmark

The Sun Fire X4170 sever, the newest member of Sun's open network systems family, equipped with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors, produced the new world record SPECint2006 score of 36.8.

The SPEC CPU2006 benchmark exercises a computer's processor, memory architecture, and compilers on a variety of real-world compute intensive workloads and consists of two benchmark suites. One suite measures and compares compute-intensive integer performance and the other measures and compares floating-point performance. For each of these suites, two metrics are collected. One measures how fast the computer completes a single task and the other measures how many tasks a computer can accomplish in a certain amount of time (the throughput).

Benchmark Outcome

The compound effect of using the most advanced Intel Xeon X5500 series processors in conjunction with OpenSolaris and the latest version compiler software — the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 — propelled the Sun Fire X4170 server to the top position on SPEC's integer benchmark.
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, was instrumental in landing this groundbreaking result.
OpenSolaris 2008.11 and Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler software used to produce this record-breaking result are available for download free of charge.

Press Release

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