IBM HS21 BLADECENTER - L5240 FOR SPEC CPU2006 Specification

IBM posts SPEC CPU2006 scores for BladeCenter HS21 dual-core blade  

May 13, 2008 ... IBM® BladeCenter® HS21 blade servers, coupled with the BladeCenter chassis, 

deliver advanced application serving with performance, power efficiency, and scalability, all of 

which makes them ideal for enterprise environments. 

The HS21 blade server, using Intel’s latest dual-core technology, has demonstrated competitive 

performance on the SPEC CPU2006 benchmark suite.  

The scores in the following tables are the first SPEC CPU2006 results published for the HS21 

blade model using the Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor L5240 (3.00GHz, 6MB L2 cache, 

1333MHz FSB, 40W). (1) These results were achieved using SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 

x64.  

SPEC CPU2006 

Benchmark 

HS21 – Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor L5240       

(3.00GHz, 6MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB, 40W) 

SPECint2006 

25.2 

SPECint_rate2006 

76.2 

SPECint_rate_base2006 

65.0 

SPECfp2006 

22.8 

SPECfp_rate2006 

54.1 

SPECfp_rate_base2006 

48.5 

Results are current as of May 13, 2008. The scores have been submitted to SPEC for review and 

will be posted on their Web site upon successful completion of the review. View all published 

results at www.spec.org. 

(1) Planned availability for the HS21 model using the Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor L5240 is 

May 30, 2008.  

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