With Nehalem-ex dell flagship R910 server test (1)

DELL Power Edge R910, as a server product for enterprise core applications, continues DELL's consistent outstanding performance in the high-end 4-way server market. R910 is a flagship product for the Dell Nehalem-EX Xeon platform, supporting expansion slots with 7 PCI-E and 4 redundant power supplies. Dual Gigabit NICs and dual 10-Gigabit NICs can also meet the needs of enterprise network development. Up to 1 TB of memory extensions also make full use of Nehalem-EX Xeon's memory extension capabilities. In addition, the local host provides up to 16 2.5-inch hard disk slot SAS, SATA, SSD ). It can be described as a sufficient consideration for users. As always, the iDRAC console, built-in dual-SD module, lifecycle manager, and other Dell special services are provided in the management aspect. BKJIA is recommended to read: dual-socket 6500 Xeon DELL R810 rack server evaluation (figure )).

Test environment and machine configuration

In this test, we will mainly test the performance, memory bandwidth, and hard disk read/write capabilities of the Dell Power Edge R910 processor. Before testing, let's take a look at the hardware configurations of this product. Dell Power Edge R910 servers support 4-way Xeon 7500 series.

Dell Power Edge R910 server configuration parameters
Processor	Intel Xeon E7540 * 4
Processor performance	2.00 GHz/6 core/18 M/6.4GT/s
Motherboard chipset	Intel 7500 + ICH10R
Standard memory	4G DDR3 * 32
Standard hard drive	146 gb sas x 8, RAID 10
Hard drive support	2.5 'sata/SAS * 16
RAID support	PREC H700, supporting RAID 0/1/10/5/6
Network functions	Gigabit Nic * 2 10g Nic * 2
Operating System	Windows server 2008 64bit

In this step, we will mainly use SiSoftware Sandra 2010, CineBench R10, HD Tach 3.0.1.0, IOmeter, Everest ultimate, and other testing software.

Test Software
Processor performance test	CineBench R10 SiSoftware Sandra 2010.5.16.41
Memory performance test	SiSoftware Sandra 2010.5.16.41 EVEREST Ultimate v5.50.2127
Hard Disk performance test	HD Tach version 3.0.1.0 Iometer 2006.07.27 EVEREST Ultimate v5.50.2127

SiSoftware Sandra 2010 introduction:

SiSoftware is a testing software that is always at the forefront of the technical field. It has multiple cores, such as Wireless MMX, AMD64/EM64T, IA64, NUMA, SMTHyper-Threading, and SMP multithreading ), SSE2, SSE, 3 DNow! Enhanced, 3 DNow !, One of the first software vendors that provided Benchmark Testing when new technologies such as Enhanced MMX and MMX emerged. Sandra is a very practical synthesis benchmark test. It gave up the use of a Fuzzy Index and changed it to a performance number with practical significance, for example, the number of commands executed per second or the number of bytes per second.

CineBench R10 introduction:

CineBench is an industry-recognized benchmark software. It can be seen in most system performance tests of mainstream media at home and abroad. The latest version is R10. It uses the Cinema 4D special effect software engine developed by the company for the film and television industry to test the performance of CPU and video cards. CineBench uses the CPU to render a high-precision 3D scene image when testing the processor performance. It runs only once under a single processor and single thread. If the system has multiple processor cores or supports multithreading, for the first time, only one thread is used, and the second run uses all the processor cores and threads to give a final score to characterize the performance of the processor.

HD Tach introduction:

HD Tach is a test software designed to test the underlying performance of a disk. It copies data of different capacities to the hard disk in segments for testing, you can test the continuous data transmission rate, Random Access time, and burst data transmission rate of a hard disk. The field merging function is not only applicable to the hard disk, but also for the test of the soft drive and ZIP drive. The HD Tach 3.0.4.0 used in the test is the latest version of the software.

IOMeter:

IOMeter is a very powerful I/O testing software, which includes the load generator IOMeter called Worker). It provides a series of standard test components to mimic practical applications, such as WebServer website servers), FileServer File Server) and on OLTPOnLine Transaction Processing, online Transaction Processing) server. These test components generate input/output requests and read/write distributions of different sizes to mimic the behavior in actual applications.

Everest ultimate introduction:

Everest ultimate is a tool used to test the hardware and software system information. It displays information about each aspect of the PC in detail. Supports thousands of (3400 +) Boards, hundreds of (360 +) graphics cards, and detection of parallel port/serial port/usb pnp devices, supports detection of a variety of processors, the benchmark tests attached to the software are also widely accepted.