With the publication of the overall highest score ever achieved by a system using 4 processors, IBM continues to deliver leadership performance on the SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark.
SPECvirt_sc2010 is the first-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the virtualization performance of data center server consolidation. The x3850 X5 server leverages fifth-generation IBM Enterprise X-Architecture, offering innovation with enhanced reliability and availability features to enable optimal performance for databases, enterprise applications, and virtualized environments. The IBM System x 3850 X5 server delivered an overall performance score of SPECvirt_sc2010 4,603 @ 282 VMs.
The x3850 X5 was configured with the Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870 (2.40GHz with 30MB L3 cache per processor-4 chips/40 cores/10 cores per chip), 1TB of memory, 384 disk drives (73GB). The x3850 X5 ran Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor.
The x3850 X5's score of SPECvirt_sc2010 4,603 @ 282 VMs easily beats all other 4-processors scores published so far. The x3850 X5-with 282 VMs and 40 processor cores-has demonstrated that KVM can host 7.05 VMs per processor core on this benchmark, which is the highest number of VMs per core of any SPECvirt_sc2010 publication to date.
This SPECvirt_sc2010 result has been accepted by SPEC and is posted at www.spec.org/virt_sc2010/results.