IBM posts SPEC CPU2006 scores for quad-core BladeCenter HS21 XM
blade
November 20, 2007 ... IBM® BladeCenter® HS21 XM blade servers, coupled with the
BladeCenter chassis, deliver advanced application serving with performance, power efficiency,
and scalability, all of which makes them ideal for enterprise environments.
The HS21 XM blade server, using Intel’s latest quad-core technology, has demonstrated
competitive performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite.
The scores in the following tables are the first SPEC CPU2006 results published for the HS21 XM
blade model using the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 (3.00GHz, 12MB L2 cache,
1333 MHz FSB). (1) These results were achieved using SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 x64.
SPEC CPU2006
Benchmark
HS21 XM – Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5450
(3.00GHz, 12MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB)
SPECint2006
26.5
SPECint_rate2006
129
SPECint_rate_base2006
108
SPECfp2006
23
SPECfp_rate2006
74.9
SPECfp_rate_base2006
68
Results are current as of November 20, 2007. The scores have been submitted to SPEC for
review and will be posted on their Web site upon successful completion of the review. View all
published results at www.spec.org.
(1) Planned availability in the United States for the HS21 XM model using the Quad-Core Intel
Xeon Processor E5450 is December 14, 2007.
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