Hi All,
For comparison purposes and completeness, I've just run some HS06
benchmarks on some basic Tier3 desktops (i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz) and got
some surprising results. On these 4 core machines running 32-bit SL 6.5,
I got a total HS06 of 83 => 20.75 HS06 per physical core!! This is
*massively* better than any server kit we've got or have just bought and
as they only cost ~600 GBP I'm wondering if I should have been buying
roomfulls of these instead of expensive stuff!
Is this expected? Am I doing something obviously wrong? The only thing I
can think of at present is that there's some effect with having SSD
drives instead of hard drives but I would like to think HS06 is
independent of I/O.
Any ides/comments??
Thanks!
Mark
P.S. It's worth noting that http://www.cpubenchmark.net puts one of our
typical Xeons at ~10K and the desktop i5 at 7K!
|