Hardware models and parameter estimates

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