IBM published Barcelona SpecCPU results.

[hawkeyefan]

More IBM benchs (LS-DYNA benchmark) with Barcelona 1.9ghz

What's this bench?

"LS-DYNA, developed by the Livermore Software Technology Corporation, is a general-purpose transient dynamic finite element program capable of simulating complex real world problems. It is optimized for shared and distributed memory Unix®, Linux®, and Microsoft® Windows® platforms. LS-DYNA is being used by automobile, aerospace, manufacturing and bioengineering companies. LS-DYNA is heavily used in automobile crash simulation."


Result:

The x3455 server achieved an elapsed time of 31,526 seconds, which is better than the 32,578 seconds of elapsed time achieved by a single-node 8-core blade system using the Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® X5355 processor at 2.66GHz.

So, Barcelona at 1.9ghz, about 3% faster than Clovertown at 2.66ghz (with 40% less clock than Clover).

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/b...yna_091007.pdf

Hmm. Maybe the first decent indicator of whether Barcelona will run DC projects well compared with Xeon? That's impressive if true.

Wouldn't that mean Barcelona @ 2.4Ghz would be faster than Xeon@3.33? (on such apps, of course)