NEC Enterprise Server Sets New Virtualization Performance Record

NEC has announced today that its latest enterprise server, the NEC Express5800/A1160, has established a new world record in the overall VMmark performance benchmark results. The company's system, which was built with no less than eight Intel Xeon X7460 processors, has managed to score 34.05@24tiles in VMware's VMmark performance benchmark application. The score reflects the system's performance capabilities in handling virtualization applications and is meant to provide customers with a way to make the difference between the different virtualization platforms that are currently available on the market.

“We're delighted to join VMmark benchmark results as another World Record Debut,” said Takayuki Noguchi, general manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC Corporation. “The VMmark performance world record demonstrates that NEC's advanced server technology along with innovative VMware ESX 4.0 software provides industry leading performance and scalability even with multiple heterogeneous application workloads on a virtual infrastructure. We’re confident the NEC Express5800/A1160 is the ideal choice for mission-critical virtualization platforms like server-consolidation or cloud computing platforms with multiple virtual machines.”

NEC's Express5800/A1160 server has been designed using eight Intel Xeon X7460 (2.66GHz/16MB L3 cache) processors, featuring an up-to-four nodes scalable building block architecture and the HSI technology to connect the blocks. In addition, the platform also included 128GB of system memory, the NEC S2500 storage solution and the VMware ESX 4.0 virtualization software. This system architecture, alongside NEC's own expertise in building high-performance servers, has allowed the company's enterprise server to reach a record-breaking score of 34.05@24tiles in the VMmark performance benchmark application.

“Intel congratulates NEC on continuing to raise the performance bar,” said Shannon Poulin, director of Xeon Platform Marketing, Server Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. “NEC's ability to leverage the performance of the Intel Xeon X7460 processor to establish new world records with their scalable 8-Socket+ systems is testament to their development team and our close working relationship.”