CERN Accelerating science

Evaluation of the Intel Sandy Bridge-EP server processor

Date published: 
Friday, 16 March, 2012
Document type: 
CERN openlab report
Author(s): 
S. Jarp
A. Lazzaro
J. Leduc
A. Nowak
In this paper we report on a set of benchmark results recently obtained by CERN openlab when comparing an 8-core “Sandy Bridge-EP” processor with Intel’s previous microarchitecture, the “Westmere-EP”. The Intel marketing names for these processors are “Xeon E5-2600 processor series” and “Xeon 5600 processor series”, respectively.