Typical hardware for the equipment tiers and operating systems is listed in Hardware specifications:

Table 1. Hardware specifications

Operating System

Platform Equipment Tier

Solaris

Sun

Sparc V440

1.6 GHz

Solaris10

Linux

Dell

R710

2.7 GHz

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server

VM (Linux)

Dell

R710

2.7 GHz

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server

Note:

R710 (Intel Xeon X5550, 2.67GHz) is rated at 29.2/220 (Speed/Throughput) in SPEC cint 2006. The servers were configured without hyperthreading and had two quad core processors each. V440 (1593 MHz UltraSparc IIIi) is not listed in the SPEC cint 2006 as it is an older machine. V440 is rated 5/20 based on comparison with the Sun Blade 1280 MHz 2500, which has the UltraSparc IIIi CPU and is listed in both the 2000 and 2006 benchmarks.