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HP ProLiant MicroServer Benchmarks

OK, as with my last server I used the nbench CPU benchmark which is pretty long in the tooth now, but as a comparison I ran it again:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          764.32  :      19.60  :       6.44
STRING SORT         :             118  :      52.73  :       8.16
BITFIELD            :      1.8813e+08  :      32.27  :       6.74
FP EMULATION        :          186.16  :      89.33  :      20.61
FOURIER             :           11665  :      13.27  :       7.45
ASSIGNMENT          :          14.577  :      55.47  :      14.39
IDEA                :          3321.4  :      50.80  :      15.08
HUFFMAN             :          1184.8  :      32.86  :      10.49
NEURAL NET          :          21.828  :      35.06  :      14.75
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          726.08  :      37.61  :      27.16
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 43.090
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 25.960
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : Dual AuthenticAMD AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo N36L
Dual-Core Processor 1298MHz
L2 Cache            : 1024 KB
OS                  : Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
C compiler          : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-48)
libc                : libc-2.5.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 9.250
INTEGER INDEX       : 12.038
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 14.398
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
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I also re-ran the test on my other server:

BYTEmark* Native Mode Benchmark ver. 2 (10/95)
Index-split by Andrew D. Balsa (11/97)
Linux/Unix* port by Uwe F. Mayer (12/96,11/97)

TEST                : Iterations/sec.  : Old Index   : New Index
                    :                  : Pentium 90* : AMD K6/233*
--------------------:------------------:-------------:------------
NUMERIC SORT        :          1046.6  :      26.84  :       8.81
STRING SORT         :          100.64  :      44.97  :       6.96
BITFIELD            :      5.0524e+08  :      86.67  :      18.10
FP EMULATION        :           165.2  :      79.27  :      18.29
FOURIER             :           18467  :      21.00  :      11.80
ASSIGNMENT          :          35.808  :     136.26  :      35.34
IDEA                :            3620  :      55.37  :      16.44
HUFFMAN             :          1636.1  :      45.37  :      14.49
NEURAL NET          :          28.048  :      45.06  :      18.95
LU DECOMPOSITION    :          1243.5  :      64.42  :      46.52
==========================ORIGINAL BYTEMARK RESULTS==========================
INTEGER INDEX       : 60.118
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 39.355
Baseline (MSDOS*)   : Pentium* 90, 256 KB L2-cache, Watcom* compiler 10.0
==============================LINUX DATA BELOW===============================
CPU                 : 4 CPU GenuineIntel Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz 3066MHz
L2 Cache            : 512 KB
OS                  : Linux 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5
C compiler          : gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
libc                : libc-2.5.so
MEMORY INDEX        : 16.452
INTEGER INDEX       : 13.998
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 21.828
Baseline (LINUX)    : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
* Trademarks are property of their respective holder.

As you can see, its about a third slower but it uses about 3 5ths the power of my last server, and is almost silent.

Today is HP ProLiant MicroServer Day

Today, I should get my new HP ProLiant MicroServer to replace my far too large and powerful HP DL140 server.

This server was a bargain, I actually clicked on an advert offering £100 cashback on it. I had assumed the server would have been expensive but it wasn’t really.

It also uses less power then my current server so overtime I should save money on the electricity bills.

It also supports 64bit where the DL140 is 32bit only.

Can’t wait to get it up and running, should be nice and quiet by comparison.