IBM HS21 XM BLADECENTER - E5450 FOR SPEC CPU2006 Specification

IBM posts SPEC CPU2006 scores for quad-core BladeCenter HS21 XM 

blade  

November 20, 2007 ... IBM® BladeCenter® HS21 XM 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 XM blade server, using Intel’s latest quad-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 XM 

blade model using the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5450 (3.00GHz, 12MB L2 cache, 

1333 MHz FSB). (1) These results were achieved using SUSE Linux® Enterprise Server 10 x64. 

SPEC CPU2006 

Benchmark 

HS21 XM – Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor E5450 

(3.00GHz, 12MB L2 Cache, 1333 MHz FSB) 

SPECint2006 

26.5 

SPECint_rate2006 

129 

SPECint_rate_base2006 

108 

SPECfp2006 

23 

SPECfp_rate2006 

74.9 

SPECfp_rate_base2006 

68 

Results are current as of November 20, 2007. 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 in the United States for the HS21 XM model using the Quad-Core Intel 

Xeon Processor E5450 is December 14, 2007.  

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