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***For immediate use August 12
TOKYO, August 12, 2008 – NEC Corporation announced today that its energy-saving server "ECO CENTER" has demonstrated industry leading energy efficiency with the #1 overall metric in the "SPECpower_ssj(TM) 2008 Benchmark” (*1) for 2 processor servers (*2). With a SPECpower_ss j(TM) 2008 result of 1,010 overall ssj_ops/watt, the ECO CENTER outperformed Hewlett-Packard's “DL180 G5” with a SPECpower_ss j(TM) 2008 result of 930 overall ssj_ops/watt, which formerly lead the class by 8.6% (*3). The ECO CENTER’s performance also marks the first time that a 2 processor server has achieved more than 1,000 overall ssj_ops/watt.
The “SPECpower_ssj(TM) 2008 Benchmark” is the first standard industry measure for comparing energy efficiency among server products (*4). The benchmark is determined by measuring server system performance versus server energy use.
This record breaking performance demonstrates NEC’s latest energy-saving server design technologies, which are made possible through such components as Intel‘s latest energy-saving processor “Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor L5420” (*5), and a highly efficient power supply.
“Intel welcomes NEC’s announcement of the energy-saving "ECO CENTER" server with a record SPECpower_ssj(TM) 2008 benchmark,” said Kirk Skaugen, vice president and general manager, Server Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “Taking advantage of the performance and efficiency of the Intel(R) Xeon(R) processor, NEC and Intel have extended our long history of collaboration in delivering amazing new levels of energy efficiency into data centers.”
The benchmark result summary and test system are as follows.
| Performance to Power Ratio | 1,010 overall ssj_ops/watt |
| Hardware | ECO CENTER |
| CPU |
Quad-Core Intel Xeon L5420 (2.5GHz / 2 x 6MB L2cache) |
| Number of CPU | 2 |
| Number of Cores | 8 |
| Number of Processor Threads | 8 |
| Amount of Memory | 8GB |
| Operating System | Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition Service Pack 2 |
Since Nov 2007, NEC has been promoting its "REAL IT COOL PROJECT," a series of programs and activities that develop and provide technologies, products and services that reduce the power consumption of customer IT platforms. The "REAL IT COOL PROJECT” vision is committed to enhancing a full range of hardware, software and facility services that are highlighted by the ECO CENTER.
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SPEC and the benchmark name SPECpower_ssj are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
(*2)Benchmark results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org as of July 31, 2008. Please refer to the following website for the latest SPECpower_ssj(TM) 2008 Benchmark results: http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008.
(*3)
Source: the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)
NEC ECO CENTER, 1,010 overall ssj_ops/watt, Publication: July 31, 2008. http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2008q3/power_ssj2008-20080714-00064.html
HP ProLiant DL180 G5, 930 overall ssj_ops/watt, Publication: May 21, 2008.
http://www.spec.org/power_ssj2008/results/res2008q2/power_ssj2008-20080506-00053.html
The measure of power consumption when running a simulated Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) test with a JAVA server application, decreasing the workload from 100% to 0% (idle) by 10% decrements, and calculating the performance to power ratio which totals the 11 sets of throughput performance (number of transactions to be processed per second) divided by the total power consumption.
(*5)Intel, Intel logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside logo, Intel Core, Core Inside, Xeon, and Xeon Inside are the trademarks of Intel Corporation in the United States and other locations.
#Microsoft, Windows and Windows Server are the trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other locations.
Rie Hoshino
NEC Corporation
Phone: +81 3798-6511
E-Mail：r-hoshino@cb.jp.nec.com
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