Evaluating performance of new quad-core Intel®Xeon®5500 family processors for HPC

  • Authors:
  • Pawel Gepner;David L. Fraser;Michal F. Kowalik

  • Affiliations:
  • Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation;Intel Corporation

  • Venue:
  • PPAM'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Parallel processing and applied mathematics: Part I
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

In this paper we take a look at what the new Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor code name Nehalem brings to high performance computing. We compare Intel Xeon 5400 series based system with a server utilizing his successor the new Intel Xeon X5560. We compare both CPU generations utilizing dual socket platforms using a number of HPC benchmarks. The results clearly prove that the new Intel Xeon processor 5500 family provide significant performance advantage on typical HPC workloads and demonstrate to be a right choice for many of HPC installations.