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Intel recently launched the 2nd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, a family of high-end, enterprise-focused processors targeted at diverse range of workloads. To see how Intel’s new chips measure up, we’ve worked with Intel and others to run benchmarks with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon processors.
The new CPUs include updated hardware-based security features, increased memory capacity and feature enhanced compute cores with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512). Moreover, the added support for Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules enables additional performance improvements at the system level.
Higher per-core performance, faster memory and storage combined with workload-optimized cores benefit overall system performance making this new generation of CPUs an attractive target for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) partners to benchmark using RHEL7.6. As shown in the table partners have chosen to run and publish benchmark results with RHEL7.6 posting world records on standard benchmarks in conjunction with the Intel launch.
Leaning on our long history of collaboration, Red Hat and Intel once again worked together to deliver state-of-the-art performance to the enterprise data centers and beyond. Red Hat’s development and performance engineering teams have been working on hardware enablement and validation of these new scalable processors for more than a year resulting in 35 benchmark publications using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The Performance team at Red Hat collaborates with our software partners and hardware OEMs to measure and optimize performance across workloads that range from database and Java applications to ERP and analytic applications, among others. The culmination of this multi-months work is a set of world records produced by our OEM partners that use Red Hat Enterprise Linux to deliver top scores on TPC, SPEC, STAC and SAP1 industry standard benchmarks.
This table captures the highest reported scores across various standard benchmarks that used Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as posted by OEM partners on April 2, 2019.
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Significance |
OEM Platform |
Category and Benchmark name |
OS version |
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World record (Total Runtime of Data Load/Transformation, Total Runtime of Complex Query Phase) @ 1.3B |
Dell PowerEdge R940 |
Big Data Analytics: SAP* BW Edition on SAP HANA* V3 @ 1.3 billion (1.3B) initial records |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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World records (Query Executions per Hour) @ 5.2B |
Dell PowerEdge R940 |
Big Data Analytics: SAP* BW Edition on SAP HANA* V3 @ 5.2 billion (5.2B) initial records |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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4-socket world record Linux |
Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY* RX4770 M5 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-socket and Overall world record and $/BBQpm world record |
HPE ProLiant* DL380 Gen10 |
Big Data Analytics: TPC Benchmark* Express Big Bench @ SF10000 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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1-socket world record Linux |
Huawei Fusion Server 2288H |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Composite max_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-socket world record Linux |
Huawei Fusion Server 2288H |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Composite max_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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4-socket world record Linux |
Huawei Fusion Server 2288H |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Composite max_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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6-socket world record Linux |
Huawei KunLun 9008 V5 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Composite max_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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1-node 3-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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1-node 6-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-node 2-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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3-node 2-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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5-node 2-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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6-node 2-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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3-socket world record |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Technical Computing: SPEComp*_base 2012 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenACC |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenCL |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenMP |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
2-socket world record Antuco Suite (11/17 benchmarks) |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Antuco Benchmarks |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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4-socket world record Antuco Suite (9/15 required plus 2 optional benchmarks) |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Antuco Benchmarks |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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4-socket world record Antuco Suite (8/9 benchmarks) |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Kanaga Suite with 2 year data set |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
1-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
2-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
3-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
1-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Distributed critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
2-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Distributed critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
3-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Distributed critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
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4-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Distributed critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
8-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 Distributed critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
1-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
2-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
3-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
4-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
6-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
|
8-socket world record Linux |
Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950 |
Server-side Java*: SPECjbb*2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 |
These benchmarks cover a broad spectrum of workloads and provide solid evidence that Red Hat Enterprise Linux excels at handling scalable workloads and thrives in ever-changing environments, as enterprise customers place ever increasing demands on their infrastructure.
The ongoing support and collaboration with Intel and the ecosystem of ISV and OEM partners does not just stop with benchmarks. Instead, it moves beyond, making Red Hat Enterprise Linux a natural target for advanced projects, daring implementations and other efforts that our partners and customers may be engaging in.
The confidence that they put in Red Hat is a motivator for expanding capabilities and delivering innovative features in the future versions of the OS, where we hope to continue to be the trusted OS of choice for partners and customers alike.
