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Performance and Energy Efficiency of Dell PowerEdge servers with Xeon Cascade Lake
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SPEC CPU2017 floating-point tests
The throughput or rate of a machine carrying out floating-point arithmetic is important to those working today’s biggest
problems in science and engineering. In figure 2, we see Xeon Platinum 8280 achieve a 4.5% improvement
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in floating
point throughput over the Platinum 8180 with its need for OS-based Spectre/Meltdown security vulnerability mitigations.
Figure 2 Two socket Platform Performance improvement running SPECfp_rate_base2017
See the Appendix D for comparative CascadeLake-SP and SkyLake-SP model floating point rate results.
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SPEC and SPECcpu are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. The performance described is
based upon results posted at http://www.spec.org in Apr-2019.