Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, and reliability of the Intel® Xeon® processor–based systems make them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient and responsive.
Financial services - Black-Scholes*
Benchmark description
The Black-Scholes* kernel workload is based on a financial modeling algorithm for the pricing of European style options. The benchmark consists of a kernel that implements a derivative of the Black-Scholes technique.
Configuration details Intel® Xeon® Processor 5000 Sequence
Black-Scholes* performance
Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5570 (2.93 GHz, 8 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, RedHat* EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of March 16, 2010. SunGard* v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: 18.74 seconds.
New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel pre-production system with two Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33 GHz, 12 MB last level cache, 6.4 GT/sec QPI), 24GB memory (6x4GB DDR3-1333), 4 x 150GB 10K RPM SATA RAID0 for scratch, RedHat EL 5 Update 4 64-bit OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of March 16, 2010. SunGard v3.0 source code compiled with Intel v11.0 compiler. Elapsed time to run benchmark: 11.51 seconds.
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