Compaq W8000 Hyper-Threading Technology, New Feature of Intel Xeon Processor - Page 11

Hyper-Threading Technology, New Feature of Intel Xeon Processor White Paper 11 . Figure 8 Figure 9: Performance Analyses Applications generally need to be tuned and recompiled2 to gain the maximum performance with Hyper-Threading technology. Most of the benchmarks that are used to collect the performance data in this paper are horizontal and single threaded. The purpose of this paper is to explain the impacts of processor performance with Hyper-Threading technology enabled versus disabled. SYSmark 2001 Productivity performance should represent current business usage models of multi-tasking with background computing. The industry standard productivity benchmark SYSmark 2001 incorporates mainstream applications for office productivity and Internet content creation as well as the latest business usage models to reflect platform productivity performance. SYSmark 2001 is a suite of application software and associated benchmark workloads developed by the Business Applications Performance Corporation (BAPCO), a non-profit consortium of leading computer industry publications, independent testing labs, PC hardware manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, and software publishers. SYSmark 2001 is a tool that measures system performance on popular business-oriented applications in using the Microsoft Windows operating environment. SYSmark 2001 contains fourteen application workloads that are divided into the following two categories: Office Productivity: • Dragon Naturally Speaking Preferred Version 5 • McAfee Virus Scan 5.13 • Microsoft Access 2000 • Microsoft Excel 2000 2 Intel is working to provide Hyper-Threading development tool for software optimization and multi-threaded code that tune for NetBurst microarchitecture processors with Hyper-Threading Technology 167T-0202A-WWEN