Quote Originally Posted by dave_graham View Post
of course i've been vocal.



in questioning these IBM results, i'm simply providing input that if IBM used B1 stepping processors (versus the BA/B2 stepping processors that will be present at launch), there's going to be significant notable impact on "scores" unless the proper workarounds are implemented.
IBM says the results are current as of Sep 10, 2007. Sounds like they would be using the production stepping, if they bothered to put out a whitepaper on it, and why would IBM submit pre-prod stepping results to SPEC??? That just doesn't seem at all likely.

Notice the lame system availability date as well.

Barc is a paper launch from the big OEMs.

From the pdf:

Results are current as of September 10, 2007. The scores have been submitted to SPEC for review and will be posted on their Web site upon successful completion of the review. View all
published results at www.spec.org.
(1) Planned availability for the x3455 model using the AMD Opteron Model 2347 processor
(1.9GHz, 512KB L2 cache per core) is November 16, 2007.