ThinkSystem SR650 Sets World Record with Two New 1-Socket SPECcpu Benchmark Results

The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 server has set two new 1-socket performance world records for the SPECspeed2017_int_base and SPECspeed2017_fp_base benchmarks.

The SPECspeed2017_int_base and SPECspeed2017_fp_base scores are ideal for measuring single-threaded compute-intensive applications, such as High Frequency Trading (HFT) and other financial industry workloads.

The ThinkSystem SR650 achieved the following SPECrate score:

• SPECspeed2017_int_base: 9.77
• SPECspeed2017_fp_base: 86.3

For the SPECspeed2017_int_base result, the ThinkSystem SR650 was configured as follows:

• One Intel Xeon Gold 6146 processor (12 cores, 3.2 GHz, 24.75 MB L3 cache)
• 192 GB of TruDDR4 memory
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3

For the SPECspeed2017_fp_base result, the ThinkSystem SR650 was configured as follows:

• One Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 processor (28 cores, 2.5 GHz, 38.5 MB L3 cache)
• 384 GB of TruDDR4 memory
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7.5

Results referenced are current as of September 4, 2018.

To view details of the results, go to:

• SPECspeed2017_int_base result
  https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2018q3/cpu2017-20180820-08568.html
• SPECspeed2017_fp_base result
  https://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/res2018q3/cpu2017-20180820-08567.html

To view all SPEC CPU2017 results, go to
http://www.spec.org/cpu2017/results/

For medium to large enterprises, and managed and cloud service providers, Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 is the optimum 2U, two-socket server—the most widely used server type worldwide. It’s engineered to deliver high performance with 205W CPUs, low-latency NVMe drives, and high-power GPUs.

Lenovo XClarity Controller is an all-new hardware embedded management engine common in every ThinkSystem server. XClarity Controller features an uncluttered graphical user interface, industry standard Redfish-compliant REST APIs, and enables booting in half the time of prior generation servers, with up to 6x faster firmware updates.

Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking. Via reusable patterns and policies, it ramps up and scales infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. It serves as a central integration point to extend your data center management processes to physical IT. Running XClarity Integrators in external IT applications, or integrating through REST APIs, helps you further speed services provisioning, streamline IT management, and contain costs.

SPEC CPU 2017 is SPEC's next-generation, industry-standardized, CPU intensive suite of benchmarks for measuring and comparing compute intensive performance, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler. This benchmarks provides a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance using workloads developed from real user applications.

The SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark suite measures server performance in the following ways:

• SPECspeed2017 is to compare time for a computer to complete single tasks
• SPECrate2017 is to measure the throughput or work per unit of time.

This benchmark is targeted for use by hardware vendors, IT industry, computer manufacturers, and government.

To learn more about solutions for compute-intensive applications, please contact your Lenovo Sales Representative.

To find out more about SPEC, visit https://www.spec.org

To learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 server, visit the SR650 product web page:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/servers/racks/ThinkSystem-SR650/p/77XX7SRSR65