Sunday, June 13, 2010

DELL's Many-Cores Servers Show Promise

A 2P-24 core Dell PowerEdge R815 2U server with 2x Opteron 6176SE (2.3GHz) achieved a SpecInt_rate2006 score of 401. The 4P-48 core 2.2GHz cousin achieved a Spectint_rate2006 grade of 771.

Both machines are substantially faster than similarly equipped Intel boxes.