Financial services application benchmarks
Intel® Xeon® processor 5000 sequence
The Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series delivers the performance and flexibility to help users solve bigger problems, to build business advantage or to rapidly create, simulate, analyze, and visualize the success of ideas.
- Black-Scholes* 5.0 performance
- Financial services megatasking performance
Financial services megatasking performance
Benchmark description
Workload: Monte Carlo* simulation based on Microsoft Excel 2007* SP1 and X_Trader* Pro v7 Demo.
Monte Carlo simulation based on Microsoft Excel 2007 is a spreadsheet that calculates the European put and call option valuation for Black-Scholes* option pricing model using Monte Carlo simulation. This simulates the calculations performed when a spreadsheet with input parameters updated and must recalculate the option valuation. This workload runs on all available logical processors.
X_Trader Pro v7 Demo includes X_Trader Pro trading software with four preconfigured X_Trader Pro workspaces, a simulated TT Gateway*, the X_Trader API, FIX Adapter*, the TT Trainer* playback application, and several recorded data sets.
Configuration Details
X_Trader* and Monte Carlo* Excel 2007
Benchmark: FSI MegaTasking v 1.0
Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel pre-production system with two quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5492 (3.4 GHz, 2x6MB L2 cache, 1600MHz system bus), 16GB memory (8x2GB FB DDR2-800), 74GB SATA 10000RPM HDD, NVIDIA Quadro* FX3700, 175.51 GFX Driver, Microsoft Windows XP* Professional x64-Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of March 2009. Score: 7.09.
Baseline configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Software Development Platform W3EA2 (Baseboard Supermicro X8DAi*, Intel® 5520 B2 chipset) with two quad-core Intel® Xeon® processor W5590 (3.33GHz, 8MB L3 Cache,6.4GT/s QPI,D0 stepping, HT enabled, Turbo enabled, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology-enabled), BIOS version 10/14/2009, 24GB (6x4GB DDR3-1333 ECC RDIMM) memory, one NVIDIA Quadro* FX5800, NVIDIA* graphic driver version 191.78 (using 3D APP-default global settings, vertical sync off), one external 21" LCD display (1280x1024, 32-bit color quality, 75 HZ), one 74GB 10000RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s hard disk, Microsoft* Windows XP* Professional x64 Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of January 2010. Score: 9.23.
New configuration and score on benchmark: Intel® Software Development Platform W3EB1 (Baseboard Supermicro X8DAi, Intel® 5520 C2 chipset) with two six-core Intel® Xeon® processor X5680 (3.33GHz, 12MB L3 Cache, 6.4GT/s QPI,B0 stepping, 130W TDP, HT enabled, Turbo enabled, Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® Technology-enabled, C1E enabled), BIOS version 1/7/2010, 24GB (6x4GB DDR3-1333 ECC RDIMM) memory, one NVIDIA Quadro* FX5800, NVIDIA* graphic driver version 191.78 (using 3D APP-default global settings, vertical sync off), one external 21" LCD display (1280x1024, 32bit color quality, 75Hz), one 74GB 10000RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s hard disk, Microsoft* Windows XP* Professional x64 Edition SP2 OS. Source: Intel internal testing as of January 2010. Score: 13.39.
Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series based workstations
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- Flexible expandability that supports more memory and dual graphic adapters for better visualization experience.
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