ScaleMP, a leading provider of virtualization solutions for high-end computing, announced record-breaking results for x86 systems. The SPECfp_rate_base2006 achieved is 666, which is the best ever x86-based result and 2x faster than the previous best x86 published result. This performance is achieved on 32 Intel Xeon (2.93GHz) cores with HT enabled and is among the top 30 results ever published. The official results can be viewed at SPEC.org web site (http://www.spec.org/).

SPEC CPU Benchmark is the industry-standard, CPU-intensive benchmark suite, stressing a system's processor, memory subsystem and compiler. It is designed to provide a comparative measure of compute-intensive performance across the widest practical range of hardware using workloads developed from real user applications.