HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade takes world record
Designed to deliver unmatched performance and expansion in the densest four-processor server blade form-factor available, the HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade demonstrated those features with its results on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark. With 34,000 SAP SD Benchmark users, the ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade earned the titles of #1 four-processor server for the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark.
The benchmarks were performed by HP’s SAP Engineering lab in Houston, TX. HP completed the testing with a 100% BladeSystem solution across all three tiers in a configuration available from HP today. HP received certification from SAP AG for the ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade (2008003) on February 26, 2008. The servers were running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 database, and the SAP ERP 6.0 application. The sixteen servers were configured with 16 x 2.4GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon 7340 processors (4 processors/16 cores/16 threads), with 2 x 4MB L2 cache per 2 cores and 16×4GB DIMMS (64GB total main memory). The Xeon 7300 series include the first Quad-Core processors from Intel designed to be used in servers with four or more processors. The ProLiant BL680c G5 utilized an Onboard Smart Array P400i Controller with 512MB battery-backed write cache (BBWC) attached to 2 x 72GB 15K SAS Drives and 3 x QLogic HBAs with each attached to 1 x MSA1000 (3 total) with 2 x MSA30 (6 total) each with 14 x 72GB 15K SCSI Drives (126 total), and 3 x HP BladeSystem c7000 rack enclosures.
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