title: Azure CPU performance benchmark and/or specification
body: <p>I need to deploy a high performance number crunching service in Windows Azure. Are there any benchmarks out there about CPU performance in Azure?</p>
  
  <p>I have found <a href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-AU/windowsazurepurchasing/thread/d3ef3782-9087-4b7e-8b55-9983fab58181" rel="nofollow">this thread</a> mentioning it is a <code>AMD Opteron 2347 HE Quad-Core 1.9GHZ</code> but all <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/faq/#" rel="nofollow">Windows Azure pages</a> mention it is a 1.6 GHz CPU. There are no other specs anywhere to be found. The guy from the forum post mentioned he somehow run CPU-Z in an Azure WebRole. I wonder how that could be replicated to get some up-to-date results.</p>