Dell POWEREDGE M915 - Manual (Page 8)

Power Efficiency Comparison of the Dell PowerEdge M915 and HP ProLiant BL680c G7 Blade Solutions
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Methodology
SPECpower_ssj2008 is an industry standard benchmark created by the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation (SPEC) to measure a server’s power and performance across multiple utilization levels. Appendix A
details the test methodology used by Dell, Appendices B and C provide detailed configurations for the tests,
and Appendix D provides detailed report data that supports the results in this paper. Full disclosure reports
from the valid SPECpower_ssj2008 runs used in this comparison are attached to this whitepaper for reference.
Configurations
The blade servers in both solutions were configured for their best known SPECpower_ssj2008 configurations,
and were matched as closely as possible given the differences between the architectures. Both solutions used
the maximum number of DIMMs and CPUs the blades could accommodate.
The configuration used is summarized in Table 1.