Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ PRIMERGY rated as fastest web server in the world

Published 23rd December 2008

PRIMERGY RX600 sets all-time high score on SPECweb benchmarks
Bracknell, December 22, 2008 – The PRIMERGY RX600 server from Fujitsu Siemens Computers has been rated as fastest web server in the world. Using the SPECweb2005 tests, the PRIMERGY RX600 S4 returned a score of 47,504 beating the previous-best result, by almost 10%.

The SPECweb2005 test measures machine performance as a web server, handling requests for static and dynamic page requests, and simulates three different workload scenarios.

Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ use of the new Intel Dunnington multi-core processor family in setting the new SPECweb2005 benchmark with a PRIMERGY RX600 S4 datacentre-class rack server, was a key factor in the company achieving the accolade of the World’s fastest web server.

In doing so, Fujitsu Siemens Computers has demonstrated the benefits of using the industry-standard SPECweb2005 benchmark to help optimise datacentre web servers. The newest results, recorded last month at the Fujitsu Siemens Computers benchmarking laboratories in Paderborn, Germany, represent the latest top score in a closely-contested category.

Jens-Peter Seick, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Server Business at Fujitsu Siemens Computers, comments: “The latest world record demonstrates the value of the SPEC benchmark for web servers. Not only is it a development platform for vendors to ensure their server performance is optimised, but also it enables datacentre IT managers to better understand the performance of their enterprise web servers, in environments where space and performance really count.”

Specification of the record-setting PRIMERGY RX600 S4: Four six-core Intel Xeon X7460 (Dunnington) processors, 64 GB of memory and four Intel PRO/1000PT Quad-Port Gigabit Ethernet controllers. The server was fitted with five internal SAS 2.5” disks for the operating system and webserver log files, and used 48 external 3.5” SAS disks in four FibreCAT SX40 storage subsystems connected to a LSI MegaRAID SAS8880E PCIe disk controller for the workload files.

Full details of the test results will be available on the SPEC website from December 18 at http://www.spec.org/web2005/results/web2005.html

Press pictures of the PRIMERGY RX600 Rack Server can be downloaded from: http://www.fsc-mediaserver.com/ms/go.cfm?folderid=6810&jumpfactor=6