Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 with 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Sets Single Chip World Record on SPECjbb2005
Significance of Results
A Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server equipped with one UltraSPARC T2
processor at 1.6GHz delivered a World Record single-chip result of
231464 SPECjbb2005 bops, 28933 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 consumed an average of 520 Watts of power during the execution of this benchmark.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 3% better performance over the Fujitsu TX100 result of 223691 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 8% better performance over the IBM x3200 result of 214578 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 10% better performance over the Fujitsu RX100 result of 211144 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 19% better performance over the IBM X3350 result of 194256 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3 GHz Xeon X3370 processor.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 2.6X the performance over the IBM p570 result of 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 4.7 GHz POWER6 processor.
- One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (one 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chip, 2RU) has 2.1 the power/performance than the IBM Power 570 (4RU) that used two 4.7GHz POWER6 chips.
- The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 used OpenSolaris 2009.06 and the Sun JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release to obtain this result.
Performance Landscape
SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)
bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)
| System | Processors | Performance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chips | Cores | Threads | GHz | Type | bops | bops/JVM | ||
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 | 231464 | 28933 | |
| Sun Blade T6320 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 | 229576 | 28697 | |
| Fujitsu TX100 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 223691 | 111846 | |
| IBM x3200 M2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 214578 | 107289 | |
| Fujitsu RX100 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 211144 | 105572 | |
| IBM Power 570 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 4.7 | POWER6 | 205917 | 102959 | |
| IBM x3350 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.0 | Intel Xeon | 194256 | 97128 | |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 1.4 | UltraSPARC T2 | 192055 | 24007 | |
| IBM Power 570 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4.7 | POWER6 | 88089 | 88089 | |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org.
Results and Configuration Summary
Hardware Configuration:
- Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
- 1x 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor
64 GB
Software Configuration:
- OpenSolaris 2009.06
Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_14 Performance Release
Benchmark Description
SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a Java implemented application tier (server-side Java). The benchmark is based on the order processing in a wholesale supplier application. The performance of the user tier and the database tier are not measured in this test. The metrics given are number of SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).
Key Points and Best Practices
- Each JVM executed in the FX scheduling class to improve performance by reducing the frequency of context switches.
- Each JVM was bound to a separate processor containing 1 core to reduce memory access latency using the physical memory closest to the processor.
See Also
Disclosure Statement
SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 8/25/2009 on http://www.spec.org.
Sun
SPARC T5220 231464 SPECjbb2005 bops, 28933 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
Submitted to SPEC for review; IBM p 570 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Fujitsu TX100 223691 SPECjbb2005 bops, 111846
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; IBM x3350 194256 SPECjbb2005 bops, 97128
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 192055 SPECjbb2005
bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
Sun watts were measured on the system during the test.
IBM p 570 2P (1 building blocks) power specifications calculated as 80% of maximum input power reported 7/8/09 in "Facts and Features Report": ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/pm/br/n/psb01628usen/PSB01628USEN.PDF