Sixteen Cores, Four Sockets

Words of thanks

Quite a few people gave us assistance with this project, and we would of course like to thank them.

Trevor Lawless, Intel US
Sanjay Sharma, Intel US
Matty Bakkeren, Intel Netherlands
(www.intel.com)

Damon Muzny, AMD US
Brent Kerby, AMD US
(www.amd.com)

Benchmark configuration

Here is the list of the different configurations. All servers have been flashed to the latest BIOS, and unless we add a "BIOS comment", the BIOS was set to default settings.

Xeon Server 1: Supermicro SC818TQ-1000 1U Chassis

2x - 4 x Intel Xeon E7330 at 2.4GHz
Supermicro X7QCE
32GB (16x2GB) ATP Registered FBDIMM DDR2-667 CL 5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
PSU: Supermicro 1000W w/PFC (Model PWS-1K01-1R)

Xeon Server 1: Intel "Stoakley platform" server

Supermicro X7DWE+/X7DWN+ Bios rev 1.0
2x Xeon E5472 at 3GHz
16GB (8x2GB) ATP Registered FBDIMM DDR2-667 CL 5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
PSU: Supermicro 700W

Opteron Server 1: Supermicro SC818TQ-1000 1U Chassis

2x - 4x AMD Opteron 8356 series at 2.3GHz
System board Supermicro H8QMi-2+
32GB (16x2GB) ATP Registered FBDIMM DDR2-667 CL 5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
PSU: Supermicro 1000W w/PFC (Model PWS-1K01-1R)

Client Configuration: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

Foxconn P35AX-S
4GB (2x 2GB) Kingston 667MHz DDR2
NIC: Intel Pro/1000

Software

SUSE Linux SLES SP1 (2.6.16.54-0.2.5-smp)
Windows 2003 x64 R2
SPECjbb2005 1.07
3DSMax 2008
CINEBENCH 10