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[chipguy]

Xeon and IPF working together:

http://www.theserverside.com/news/thread.tss?thread_id=27843

"BEA and Unisys have recently published two sets of new SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark results in the Multiple Node category. With these results, BEA WebLogic Server now owns the top four throughput positions across all published configurations. Also, BEA has achieved the lowest price/performance ratio in the Multiple Node category while reaching better performance than the nearest competitor at less than half the cost. Below are some of the highlights of both tests, while the complete description and full disclosure data can be found at http://www.spec.org/osg/jAppServer2002/results/jAppServer2002.html.

The first benchmark, published on July 21, scored 2,587.74 TOPS@MultiNode at a cost of 139.84 $/TOPS@MultiNode.

This result can be directly compared to IBM’s test that used similar Intel® Xeon™-based hardware, but required 9 systems vs. only 4 used by BEA/Unisys. In that benchmark, IBM had achieved a slightly lower than BEA throughput (2,575.34 TOPS@MultiNode) at 58% higher cost (330.07 $/TOPS@MultiNode).

The second benchmark, published on August 4, increased the utilization of the application server by using a bigger database server: instead of 8 CPUs in the first test, the database server used 12 CPUs in the second one. This benchmark has shown the throughput of 3,096.49 TOPS@MultiNode at a cost of 157.66 $/TOPS@MultiNode.

The system under test included BEA WebLogic Server 8.1™ and BEA WebLogic JRockit™ JVM running four Unisys ES3020L servers, each with Dual Intel® Xeon™ processors on Microsoft Windows 2003. The database server was a Unisys ES7000 Aries 410 with eight (twelve in the second test) Intel® Itanium® 2 processors running Windows 2003 and Microsoft SQL Server. The benchmark was run by Unisys team at Unisys labs."