Fujitsu Servers performance's winning benchmarks on 32 and 24 cores systems.
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There has been actually a committee created in towards the standardization in 2006. Current participants include: AMD, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, IBM, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun Microsystems, SWsoft and VMware. Additional information on the subcommittee can be found here.
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Traditional server benchmarks that exist today were developed with neither virtual machines nor server consolidation in mind and focus on a single workload per server. These benchmarks do not capture the system behavior induced by multiple virtual machines and fail to provide sufficient insight into the scalability of virtual environments supporting multiple simultaneous workloads on the same server.
I was quite nice surprised that Fujitsu's servers, which are a bit less known in the Virtualization communities, but that outperformed HP, Dell or IBM systems with 24 and 32 cores. You can have a look at VMware website, where the results are published on regular basis.
FYI the BX960 S1 blade from Fujitsu has Two onboard integrated Dual-Channel Intel® 82599 10 Gigabit Ethernet controllers…. so the convergence to 10 Gigabit Ethernet has begun ….
Results in PDF:
- 48 cores systems results (PDF)
Source: VMware
