IBM PowerLinux 7R2 server

High-performance, energy-efficient server for Linux

POWER7® means high performance, high capacity, and near linear scaling. The benchmark and performance data below demonstrate how IBM solutions can be optimized for a wide variety of workloads, each one providing you with performance you can count on.


SPEC CPU2006 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS SPECint_rate SPECfp_rate
POWER7+ 2 16 64 4.2 SLES 11 SP2 852 575

SPECjbb2005 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS BOPS BOPS/jvm JVM
POWER7+ 2 16 64 4.2 SLES 11 SP2 1,872,915 117,057 16

SPECjEnterprise2010 performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS EjOPS
POWER7+ 2 16 64 4.2 RHEL 6.4 12,062
POWER7+ 2 16 64 4.2 RHEL 6.4 13,161

LINPACK performance
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS HPC Gflops     
HPC Peak
POWER7+ 2 16 16 4.2 SLES 11 SP2 508.2 581.1

SAP performance - SD 2-Tier1
Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS Number
of Users		 Database ERP Release Cert. Number
POWER7+ 2 16 64 4.2 SLES
11
SP2		 8,016 DB2 10 6.0
EHP5		 2013003
1 Central Server: PowerLinux 7R2
 

For details on these and all other benchmarks published by IBM Power Systems, see the Power Systems Performance Report.

For details on SPEC results, see www.spec.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on TPC results, see www.tpc.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on SAP benchmarks, see www.sap.com/benchmark (link resides outside of ibm.com)

The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Additional information about these benchmarks and associated trademarks.

* rPerf (Relative Performance)

** CPW (Commercial Processing Workload)

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