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Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake
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Business Transaction Performance
SPECjbb2015
According to the SPEC website:
This benchmark models a Java-based business application for a worldwide supermarket company with an IT
infrastructure that handles a mix of point-of-sale requests, online purchases and data-mining operations. It
exercises the latest data formats (XML), communication using compression and messaging with security in a
virtualized cloud computing environment.
As figure 6 shows, a Dell PowerEdge R740 with a pair of the new Cascade Lake-SP 8280 processors and accompanying
2933M memory provides 14% more Java operations per second than the R740 with Skylake-SP Platinum 8180
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Figure 6 Two Socket Platform Performance improvement running SPECjbb2015
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SPEC and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. SKL-SP result from Dell lab
Spectre/Meltdown security vulnerability mitigation regression. CLX-SP result published at https://spec.org/jbb2015/results/ in Mar-2019.