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SPECweb99_SSL Scores Removed Due to Defect

While checking for new SPECweb99_SSL submissions, I noticed the following message in each of the submissions.

    SPEC has discovered a code defect in the SPECweb99_SSL test harness run on 
     the client systems used in this result.  The defect prevents these client  
     systems from generating the correct SPECweb99_SSL workload.  Specifically,  
     the defect in the SPECweb99_SSL code results in the clients not generating  
     any of the required SSL ClientKeyExchanges during the benchmark.  Therefore,  
     the results presented here are not comparable with any other SPECweb99_SSL 
     results.

This includes all the results presented for Opteron, as well as some on other platforms. It will be interesting to see what the scores are after they are retested, but in the mean time, here are some new submissions that HP has submitted for their new Integrity (Itanium 2) servers.

Hewlett-Packard Company HP Integrity rx2600 Zeus 4.2r2 2 1930 
 Hewlett-Packard Company HP Integrity rx5670 Zeus 4.2r2 4 3702 
 Hewlett-Packard Company HP Integrity rx5670 Zeus 4.2r2 2 1914 

This is compared to a few new IBM submissions based on 2.8GHz Xeon MP:

IBM eServer xSeries 255 Zeus V4.2r2 4 2110  
 IBM eServer xSeries 360 Zeus V4.2r2 4 2174 

This is even higher than IBM's own Power4 submissions (using 1.45GHz processor):

IBM pSeries 630 Model 6C4 Zeus 4.2r1 4 1988  
 IBM pSeries 630 Model 6E4 Zeus 4.2r1 4 1988 

http://www.spec.org/web99ssl/results/web99ssl.html