Intel Microarchitecture and 10 gigabit Ethernet Transforming the Data Center

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Up to 2.5x performance compared to Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series claim supported by performance result of a bandwidth intensive network benchmark (IxChariot). Network throughput was measured on 64KB I/O size transfers
between the test system and multiple network targets. Intel internal measurement (March 2009). IxChariot 6.6 benchmark. Intel pre-production system with two Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series CPUs (2.93 GHz), 12 GB
memory (6 x2GB DDR3 - 1066MHz) vs. Intel Production system with two Intel® Xeon® processors X5365 (3.0GHz, 1333MHz FSB), 8 GB memory (8 x 1 GB DDR 2 - 667). Windows Server 2008, stock unmodified installation.
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