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- Last week Sun Microsystems posted a new 8P, 32-core world-record result on the VMmark benchmark, measuring the performance and scalability of applications running in virtualized environments based on VMware products. This top VMmark score was achieved on a Sun Fire™ X4600 M2 server powered by Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors. More information on leading VMmark scores for 2P, 4P and 8P AMD Opteron processor-based systems can be found at http://links.amd.com/a3zb. …
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- To put things most simply, if it has been too long or if the run queue on the desired CPU core is too deep, then the thread migrates. Obviously, processor affinity was not sufficient here to assure that threads would tend to run on …. But the Sun Fire X4600 server has eight sockets, each with two cores. Now the number of hops to memory can be as much as three. The average memory access time for the X4600 is 155 nsecs, as compared to 105 nsecs for a two-socket system. …
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- You can see the details of many of those x64 benchmarks for yourself, but here’s one we’ll point out: Fueled by the latest version 1.6.0_06 of Sun’s Java Platform, Standard Edition software, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server obtained the best recorded …. Dual Dynamic Power Management™ allows each processor to maximize the power-saving benefits of Enhanced AMD PowerNow! technology without compromising performance. Dual Dynamic Power Management can reduce idle processor power …
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