PowerDesigner provides sample hardware profiles downloaded from the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) website (www.spec.org), with SPECint2006 Rates benchmark data. You can download additional profiles from the site and import them into your library.
Note: You can also create a hardware profile from the List of Hardware Profiles () and entering the properties by hand, but we recommend importing the profiles from the SPEC site.
- In your Web browser, go to the benchmark search form http://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=rint2006&op=form
- Set the following columns to Display:
- Hardware Vendor
- System
- # Cores
- # Chips
- # Cores Per Chip
- # Threads Per Core
- Processor
- Processor MHz
- Memory
- Operating System
- File System
- Published
- Enter any appropriate criteria. For example, you may want to restrict the search results to servers from your approved vendors, or to those available since the beginning of the year.
- Click Fetch Results to perform the search.
The results are returned on a new page.
- To download all the results, click the Download link, next to the Results heading. To download an individual server result, click the CSV link to the right of its entry. Both links provide CSV files that can be imported into your hardware profile library.
Note: We advise you to download individual profiles, as they provide more detailed information, including storage size.
- Right-click the Hardware Profile Library model in the Browser and select
- Click the Select CSV Files tool and navigate to and select the CSV files you downloaded from the SPEC Website.
- Click Import to import the profiles into the library and then Close to close the wizard.
- Open the property sheets of the imported servers to add the appropriate unit cost to your organization.
Note: If you do not specify costs for your hardware profiles, you will not obtaining useful costing information from the IQ reference architecture Advisor wizard (see
Creating Reference Architectures).