Expensive Quad Sockets vs. Ubiquitous Dual Sockets
by Johan De Gelas on October 6, 2009 1:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Benchmark Methods and Systems
It is impossible to perform the same benchmark methodology as we use with dual socket servers. We limit ourselves to our virtualization benchmarking as we are sure these tests are able to saturate 24 cores. To add some perspective, we add industry standard benchmarks such as SAP and VMware VMmark scores.
Benchmark configuration
None of our benchmarks required more than 20GB RAM. Database files were placed on a three drive RAID0 Intel X25-E SLC 32GB SSD, with log files on one Intel X25-E SLC 32GB. Adding more drives improved performance by only 1%, so we are confident that storage is not our bottleneck.
Xeon Server 1: ASUS RS700-E6/RS4 barebone
Dual Intel Xeon "Gainestown" X5570 2.93GHz
ASUS Z8PS-D12-1U
6x4GB (24GB) ECC Registered DDR3-1333
NIC: Intel 82574L PCI-EGBit LAN
PSU: Delta Electronics DPS-770 AB 770W
Xeon Server 2: Supermicro SC818TQ-1000 Chassis
2x - 4x Intel Xeon X7460 at 2.66GHz
Supermicro X7QCE
64GB (16x4GB) ATP Registered FBDIMM DDR2-667 CL 5 ECC
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
PSU: Supermicro 1000W w/PFC (Model PWS-1K01-1R)
Opteron Server 1 (Quad CPU): Supermicro 818TQ+ 1000
Quad AMD Opteron 8435 at 2.6GHz
Quad AMD Opteron 8389 at 2.9GHz
Supermicro H8QMi-2+
64GB (16x4GB) DDR2-800
NIC: Dual Intel PRO/1000 Server NIC
PSU: Supermicro 1000W w/PFC (Model PWS-1K01-1R)
Opteron Server 2 (Dual CPU): Supermicro A+ Server 1021M-UR+V
Dual Opteron 2435 "Istanbul" 2.6GHz
Dual Opteron 2389 2.9GHz
Supermicro H8DMU+,
32GB (8x4GB) 800MHz
PSU: 650W Cold Watt HE Power Solutions CWA2-0650-10-SM01-1
vApus/DVD Store/Oracle Calling Circle Client Configuration
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHz
Foxconn P35AX-S
4GB (2x2GB) Kingston DDR2-667
NIC: Intel PRO/1000
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Casper42 - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - link
I know its late, but on page 4 of this article you say your using a Dual 2389 setup where each chip is Quad Core.Somehow that morphs into a "Quad Opteron 2389" on page 6 both in the text and in the graphic. Since a Quad 2xxx is not possible, is this a Dual 2389 or a Quad 8389?
Then on page 7 it becomes a Quad Opteron 8389
Am I losing my mind?
I see now that both a Quad 8389 and a Dual 2389 are listed in Page 4, but why on earth did you guys bounce back and forth so much between them?
JohanAnandtech - Tuesday, October 6, 2009 - link
You are not losing your mind. The Quad 2389 is a quad 8389 of course. I have fixed the error. Thanks.The dual sockets machines were mostly used to check how the software scales (MS SQL server, virtualization) and how the power consumption compares to the quad socket machines. I hope this makes it clear?