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Intel® Xeon® processor 7500/6500 series

Exceptional scalable performance with advanced reliability for your most data-demanding applications and intelligent performance that automatically adapts to the diverse needs of a virtualized environment.

Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series expandable servers scaling

Two-sockets (2S), four-sockets (4S), and eight-sockets (8S) scaling performance on enterprise-class workloads

Two-sockets (2S), four-sockets (4S), and eight-sockets (8S) scaling performance on enterprise-class workloads

Solid scaling for growing enterprise businesses

As businesses continue to merge and consolidate, the demand for number of users supported or transaction per given time increase putting additional stress on smaller volume servers. Consider future growth plans and purchase a 4S or 8S server which can provides headroom growth for the next few years—and Intel® Xeon® processor 7500 series-based servers deliver the scalable performance, flexible virtualization, and advanced reliability features needed.

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Scalable performance on enterprise benchmarks

 

Comparison based on best published/submitted results on www.spec.org as of 21 September 2010.

SPECfp*_rate_base2006 benchmark platform configuration details

8S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Hewlett-Packard ProLiant* DL980 G7 server platform with eight Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 256GB memory, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 5.5, Intel® C++ and Fortran Compiler 11.1. Referenced as published baseline score of 1020. Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q3/cpu2006-20100816-12949.html.

4S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Cisco* UCS C460 M1 server platform with four Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 512GB DDR3-1066 QR REG ECC memory, SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86_64, Intel® C++ and Fortran Compiler for Linux* version 11.1. Referenced as published score of 549. Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q2/cpu2006-20100510-10870.html.

2S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Dell PowerEdge* R810 with two Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 128GB (32x 4GB DDR3-1066) memory, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 5.4, Intel® C++ Compiler and Fortran* Compiler 11.1. Referenced as published at 275 score. Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q2/cpu2006-20100329-10296.html.

SPECint*_rate_base2006 benchmark platform configuration details

8S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Hewlett-Packard ProLiant* DL980 G7 server platform with eight Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 256GB memory, Red Hat* Enterprise LINUX 5.5, Intel® C++ Compiler 11.1. Referenced as published baseline score of 1380. Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q3/cpu2006-20100816-12950.html.

4S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Oracle Sun Fire* X4470 server platform with four Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 256GB memory, Solaris* 10 10/09, Oracle Solaris Studio Express* 6/10. Referenced as published score of 724. Source: http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q3/cpu2006-20100620-11762.html.

2S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
IBM System x* 3850 X5 with two Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI) installed, 128GB DDR3-1066 memory, SUSE* Linux Enterprise Server 11 for x86_64, Intel® C++ Compiler 11.1. Referenced as published at 362 score. Source: www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2010q2/cpu2006-20100329-10292.html.

SPECjbb*2005 benchmark platform configuration details

8S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Hewlett-Packard ProLiant* DL980 G7 server platform with eight Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), IBM J9* VM, Windows Server* 2008 Enterprise SP1. Referenced as published score of 3,816,799 SPECjbb2005 bops and 119,275 bops/JVM. Source: http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005/results/res2010q3/jbb2005-20100816-00914.html.

4S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Cisco* UCS C460 M1 server platform with four Intel® Xeon® processors X7560 (24M cache, 2.26GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel® HT Technology) enabled, Intel® Turbo Boost Technology enabled, 256GB memory, 1x 73GB disk drive, Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, IBM J9* JVM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0, SR5). Referenced as published at 2,021,535 SPECjbb2005 bops and 126,345 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. Source: http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005/results/res2010q2/jbb2005-20100331-00838.html.

2S Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 based platform details
Dell PowerEdge* R810 with two Intel® Xeon® processor X7560 (24M cache, 2.26 GHz, 6.40GT/s Intel® QPI), 128GB (32x 4GB DDR3-1066) memory, Microsoft Windows Server* 2008 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition, IBM* J9 JVM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0). Referenced as published at 1,011,147 SPECjbb2005 bops, 126,393 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. Source: www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005/results/res2010q2/jbb2005-20100310-00809.html.

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