Pittsburgh1 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 testing with a Dell 0X947H and ATI ES1000 128MB on CentOS 6.2 via the Phoronix Test Suite. 1stDB: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 @ 2.39GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0X947H, Chipset: Intel 7300 MCH, Memory: 130048MB, Disk: 2 x 449GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: HP w2007, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.2, Kernel: 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 Test2Complex: Processor: 4 x Intel Xeon E7450 @ 2.39GHz (24 Cores), Motherboard: Dell 0X947H, Chipset: Intel 7300 MCH, Memory: 130048MB, Disk: 2 x 449GB PERC 6/i, Graphics: ATI ES1000 128MB, Monitor: HP w2007, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit OS: CentOS 6.2, Kernel: 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME 2.28.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.4, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.2, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11, Compiler: GCC 4.4.6 20110731, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1280x1024 PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better 1stDB . 2668.27 |============================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Test2Complex . 16.35 |========================================================= PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better Test2Complex . 806 |===========================================================