BestPerf: Performance & Best Practices

Here is a BestPerf blog index to a variety of benchmarks announced at Oracle Open World and others talked about at the conference.

Colors used:

ORACLEOPENWORLD

CMT Servers

Oct 11, 2009 * TPC-C World Record Sun - Oracle *
Oct 13, 2009 Sun T5440 Oracle BI EE Sun T5440 World Record
Oct 13, 2009 SPECweb200 Sun T5440 World Record, Solaris Containers and Sun Storage F5100
Sep 01, 2009 String Searching - Sun T5240 & T5440 Outperform IBM Cell Broadband Engine
Aug 27, 2009 Sun T5240 Beats 4-Chip IBM Power 570 POWER6 System on SPECjbb2005
Aug 26, 2009 Sun T5220 Sets Single Chip World Record on SPECjbb2005
Aug 12, 2009 SPECmail2009 on Sun T5240 and Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3
Jul 23, 2009 World Record Performance of Sun CMT Servers
Jul 22, 2009 Why does 1.6 beat 4.7?
Jul 21, 2009 Zeus ZXTM Traffic Manager World Record on Sun T5240
Jul 21, 2009 Sun T5440 World Record SAP-SD 4-Processor Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP4 (Unicode)

SPARC64 Servers

Oct 13, 2009 SAP 2-tier SD Benchmark on Sun M9000/32 SPARC64 VII
Oct 13, 2009 Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll Sun M4000 and Sun Storage F5100 World Record Performance
Oct 12, 2009 Best Practices: M4000 Sun Storage F5100 is a good option for Peoplesoft Payroll
Oct 13, 2009 Oracle Hyperion Sun M5000 and Sun Storage 7410
Oct 13, 2009 SPECcpu2006 Results On MSeries Servers, New SPARC64 VII

X86 Servers

Oct 13, 2009 SAP 2-tier SD-Parallel on Sun Blade X6270 1-node, 2-node and 4-node
Aug 28, 2009 Sun X4270 World Record SAP-SD 2-Processor Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP 4 (Unicode)
Oct 02, 2009 Sun X4270 VMware VMmark benchmark achieves excellent result
Sep 22, 2009 Sun X4270 Virtualized for Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution Benchmark

HPC Benchmarks

Oct 13, 2009 Halliburton ProMAX Oil & Gas Appl on Sun 6048/X6275 Cluster and Oracle Database
Oct 13, 2009 MCAE ABAQUS faster on Sun F5100 and Sun X4270 - Single Node World Record
Oct 12, 2009 MCAE ANSYS faster on Sun F5100 and Sun X4270
Oct 12, 2009 MCAE MCS/NASTRAN faster on Sun F5100 and Fire X4270
Oct 13, 2009 CP2K Life Sciences, Ab-initio Chem - Sun C48 with Sun Blade X6275 - QDR InfiniBand
Oct 09, 2009 X6275 Cluster Demonstrates Performance and Scalability on WRF 2.5km CONUS Dataset

Specific Storage Benchmarks

Oct 12, 2009 SPC-2 Sun Storage 6180 RAID 5 & RAID 6 Over 70% Better $/Performance than IBM
Oct 12, 2009 SPC-1 Sun Storage 6180 Over 70% Better $/Performance than IBM
Oct 12, 2009 1.6 Million 4K IOPS in 1RU on Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array

Additional CMT Server Benchmarks

Jul 21, 2009 1.6 GHz SPEC CPU2006 - Rate Benchmarks
Jul 21, 2009 Sun Blade T6320 World Record SPECjbb2005 performance
Jul 21, 2009 Sun T5440 SPECjbb2005 Beats IBM POWER6 Chip-to-Chip

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server with SPARC64 VII processors (configured with 4 CPUs) and Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System has achieved exceptional performance for Oracle Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1.3 and Oracle 11g database for hundreds of GB of data, 15 dimensional db and millions of members running on free and open Solaris 10.

• The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System provides more than 20% improvement out of the box compared to a mid-size fiber channel disk array for default aggregation and user based aggregation.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server with Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System and Oracle Hyperion Essbase 11.1.1.3 running on Solaris 10 OS provides < 1sec query response times for 20K users in a 15 dimension database.

• The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage system and Oracle Hyperion Essbase provides the best combination for large Essbase database leveraging ZFS and taking advantage of high bandwidth for faster load and aggregation.

• Oracle Fusion Middleware provides a family of complete, integrated, hot pluggable and best-of-breed products known for enabling enterprise customers to create and run agile and intelligent business applications. Oracle WebLogic Server’s on-going, record-setting Java application server performance demonstrates why so many customers rely on Oracle Fusion Middleware as their foundation for innovation.

Performance Landscape

System	Processor	OS	Storage	Dataload	Def.Agg	UserAgg
Sun SE M5000	4 x 2.4GHz SPARC64 VII	Solaris	Sun Storage 7410	120 min	448 min	17.5 min
Sun SE M5000	4 x 2.4GHz SPARC64 VII	Solaris	Sun StorageTek 6140	128 min	526 min	24.7 min

Results and Configuration Summary

Hardware Configuration:

1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 (2.4 GHz/32GB)
1 x Sun StorageTek 6140 (32 x 146GB)
1 x Sun Storage 7410 (24TB disk)

Software Configuration:

Solaris 10 5/09
Installer V 11.1.1.3
Oracle Hyperion Essbase Client v 11.1.1.3
Oracle Hyperion Essbase v 11.1.1.3
Oracle Hyperion Essbase Adminstration services 64-bit
Oracle Weblogic 9.2MP3 -- 64 bit
Sun's JDK 1.5 Update 19 -- 64-bit
Oracle RDBMS 11.1.0.7 64-bit
HP's Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional 9.0

Benchmark Description

Oracle Hyperion is a OLAP based analytics application used to analyze business needs and plans that is highly dimensional detailed, such as "what-if" analysis to look into the future, build multi-user scenario modeling, planning, customer buying patterns, etc.

The objective of the benchmark is to collect data for the following Oracle Hyperion Essbase benchmark key performance indicators (KPI):

• Database build time: Time elapsed to build a database including outline and data load.

• Database Aggregation build time: Time elapsed to build aggregation.

• Analytic Query Time: With user load increasing from 500, 1000, 2000, 10000, 20000 users track the time required to process each query and hence track average analytic query time.

• Analytic Queries per minute: Number of queries handled by the Essbase server per minute Track resource, i.e. CPU, memory usage.

The benchmark is based on the data set used by Product Assurance for 2005 Essbase 7.x testing.

40 flat files of 1.2 GB each , 49.4 GB in total
10 million rows per file, 400 million rows total
28 columns of data per row
49.4 GB total size of 40 files
Database outline has 15 dimensions (five of them are attribute dimensions)
Customer dimension has 13.3 million members

Key Points and Best Practices

• The Sun Storage 7410 was configured with iSCSI.

See Also

• Oracle's Hyperion Enterprise for Midsize Organizations
• Oracle Hyperion Essbase

Disclosure Statement

Oracle Hyperion Enterprise, www.oracle.com/solutions/mid/oracle-hyperion-enterprise.html, results 10/13/2009.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server combined with Sun FlashFire technology, the Sun Storage F5100 flash array, has produced World Record Performance on PeopleSoft Payroll (North America) 9.0 benchmark.

• A Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server with four new 2.53GHz SPARC64 VII processors and a Sun Storage F5100 flash array is 33% faster than the HP rx6600 (4 x 1.6GHz Itanium2 processors) on the PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) 9.0 benchmark. The Sun solution used the Oracle 11g database running on Solaris 10.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server with four 2.53GHz SPARC64 VII processors and the Sun Storage F5100 flash array is 35% faster than the 2027 MIPs IBM Z990 (6 Z990 Gen1 processors) on the PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) 9.0 benchmark with Oracle 11g database running on Solaris 10. The IBM result used IBM DB2 for Z/OS 8.1 for the database.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server with four 2.53GHz SPARC64 VII processors and a Sun Storage F5100 flash array processed 250K employee payroll checks using PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) 9.0 and Oracle 11g running on Solaris 10. Four different execution strategies were run with an average improvement of 25% compared to HP's results run on the rx6600. Sun achieved these results with 8 concurrent jobs using only 25% CPU utilization while HP required 16 concurrent jobs with a 88% CPU utilization.
  

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server combined with Sun FlashFire technology processed 8 Sequential Jobs and single run control with a total time of 527.85 mins, an improvement of 20% compared to HPs time of 633.09 mins.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server combined with Sun FlashFire technology demonstrated a speedup of 81% going from 1 to 8 streams on the PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) 9.0 benchmark using the Oracle 11g database.

• The Sun FlashFire technology dramatically improves IO performance for the PeopleSoft Payroll benchmark with significant performance boost over best optimized FC disks (60+).

• The Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array is a high performance high density solid state flash array which provides a read latency of only 0.5 msec which is about 10 times faster than the normal disk latencies 5 msec measured on this benchmark.

• Sun estimates that the MIPS rating for a Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server is over 2742 MIPS.

Performance Landscape

250K Employees

System	Processor	OS/Database	Time in Minutes			Version
			Run 1	Run 2	Run 3
Sun M4000	4x 2.53GHz SPARC64 VII	Solaris/Oracle 11g	79.35	288.47	527.85	9.0
HP rx6600	4x 1.6GHz Itanium2	HP-UX/Oracle 11g	81.17	350.16	633.25	9.0
IBM Z990	6x Gen1 2027 MIPS	Z/OS /DB2	107.34	328.66	544.80	9.0
HP rx6600	4x 1.6GHz Itanium2	HP-UX/Oracle 11g	105.70	369.59	633.09	9.0

Note: IBM benchmark documents show that 6 Gen1 procs is 2027 mips. 13 Gen1 processors were in this config but only 6 were available for testing.

500K Employees

System	Processor	OS/Database	Time in Minutes			Version
			Run 1	Run 2	Run 3
HP rx7640	8x 1.6GHz Itanium2	HP-UX/Oracle 11g	133.63	712.72	1665.01	9.0

Results and Configuration Summary

Hardware Configuration:

1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 (4 x 2.53 GHz/32GB)
1 x Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array (40 x 24GB FMODs)
1 x Sun Storage J4200 (12 x 450GB SAS 15K RPM)

Software Configuration:

Solaris 10 5/09
Oracle PeopleSoft HCM 9.0
Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise (PeopleTools) 8.49
Micro Focus Server Express 4.0 SP4
Oracle RDBMS 11.1.0.7 64-bit
HP's Mercury Interactive QuickTest Professional 9.0

Benchmark Description

The PeopleSoft 9.0 Payroll (North America) benchmark is a performance benchmark established by PeopleSoft to demonstrate system performance for a range of processing volumes in a specific configuration. This information may be used to determine the software, hardware, and network configurations necessary to support processing volumes. This workload represents large batch runs typical of OLTP workloads during a mass update.

To measure five application business process run times for a database representing large organization. The five processes are:

• Paysheet Creation: generates payroll data worksheet for employees, consisting of std payroll information for each employee for given pay cycle.

• Payroll Calculation: Looks at Paysheets and calculates checks for those employees.

• Payroll Confirmation: Takes information generated by Payroll Calculation and updates the employees' balances with the calculated amounts.

• Print Advice forms: The process takes the information generated by payroll Calculations and Confirmation and produces an Advice for each employee to report Earnings, Taxes, Deduction, etc.

• Create Direct Deposit File: The process takes information generated by above processes and produces an electronic transmittal file use to transfer payroll funds directly into an employee bank a/c.

For the benchmark, we collect at least four data points with different number of job streams (parallel jobs). This batch benchmark allows a maximum of eight job streams to be configured to run in parallel.

Key Points and Best Practices

• Why Sun Storage F5100 is a good option for Peoplesoft NA Payroll Application

• Accelerate your Payroll Performance with F20 PCIe Card

See Also

• PeopleSoft White Papers

Disclosure Statement

Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll (NA) 9.0 benchmark, Sun M4000 (4 2.53GHz SPARC64) 79.35 min, IBM Z990 (6 gen1) 107.34 min, HP rx6600 (4 1.6GHz Itanium2) 105.70 min, www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/white-papers-peoplesoft.html Results 10/13/2009.

The SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks were run on the new 2.88 GHz and 2.53 GHz SPARC64 VII processors for the Sun SPARC Enterprise Mseries servers. The new processors were tested in the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000 servers.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running the new 2.88 GHz SPARC64 VII processors beats the IBM Power 595 server running 5.0 GHz POWER6 processors by 20% on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server running the new 2.88 GHz SPARC64 VII processors beats the IBM Power 595 server running 5.0 GHz POWER6 processors by 29% on the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 64 SPARC64 VII 2.88GHz processors delivered results of 2590 SPECint_rate2006 and 2100 SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 64 SPARC64 VII processors at 2.88GHz improves performance vs. 2.52 GHz by 13% for SPECint_rate2006 and 5% for SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 32 SPARC64 VII 2.88GHz processors delivered results of 1450 SPECint_rate2006 and 1250 SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with 32 SPARC64 VII processors at 2.88GHz improves performance vs. 2.52 GHz by 17% for SPECint_rate2006 and 13% for SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server with 16 SPARC64 VII 2.88GHz processors delivered results of 753 SPECint_rate2006 and 666 SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 server with 16 SPARC64 VII processors at 2.88GHz improves performance vs. 2.52 GHz by 18% for SPECint_rate2006 and 14% for SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server with 8 SPARC64 VII 2.53GHz processors delivered results of 296 SPECint_rate2006 and 234 SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 server with 8 SPARC64 VII processors at 2.53GHz improves performance vs. 2.40 GHz by 12% for SPECint_rate2006 and 5% for SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server with 4 SPARC64 VII 2.53GHz processors delivered results of 152 SPECint_rate2006 and 116 SPECfp_rate2006.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 server with 4 SPARC64 VII processors at 2.53GHz improves performance vs. 2.40 GHz by 13% for SPECint_rate2006 and 4% for SPECfp_rate2006.

Performance Landscape

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results. All results as of 10/07/09.

In the tables below
"Base" = SPECint_rate_base2006 or SPECfp_rate_base2006
"Peak" = SPECint_rate2006 or SPECfp_rate2006

SPECint_rate2006 results - large systems

System	Processors			Base Copies	Performance Results		Comments
	Cores/ Chips	Type	GHz		Base	Peak
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth	1024/512	Itanium 2	1.6	1020	9031	na
Sun Blade X6440 Cluster	768/192	Opteron 8384	2.7	705	8845	na
SGI Altix 4700 Density	256/128	Itanium 2	1.66	256	2893	3354
vSMP Foundation	128/32	Xeon X5570	2.93	255	3147	na
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth	256/128	Itanium 2	1.6	256	2715	2971
SPARC Enterprise M9000	256/64	SPARC64 VII	2.88	511	2400	2590	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	256/64	SPARC64 VII	2.52	511	2088	2288
IBM Power 595	64/32	POWER6	5.0	128	1866	2155
HP Superdome	128/64	Itanium 2	1.6	128	1534	1648
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/32	SPARC64 VII	2.88	255	1370	1450	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/64	SPARC64 VI	2.4	255	1111	1294
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/32	SPARC64 VI	2.52	255	1141	1240
Unisys ES7000	96/16	Xeon X7460	2.66	96	999	1049
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX	32/8	Xeon X5570	2.93	64	931	999
IBM Power 575	32/16	POWER6	4.7	64	812	934
IBM Power 570	32/16	POWER6+	4.2	64	661	832
SPARC Enterprise M8000	64/16	SPARC64 VII	2.88	127	706	753	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	64/32	SPARC64 VI	2.4	127	553	650
SPARC Enterprise M8000	64/16	SPARC64 VII	2.52	127	565	637

SPECint_rate2006 results - small systems

System	Processors			Base Copies	Performance Results		Comments
	Cores/ Chips	Type	GHz		Base	Peak
Sun Fire X4440	24/4	Opteron 8435 SE	2.6	24	296	377
SPARC Enterprise M5000	32/8	SPARC64 VII	2.53	64	267	296	New
Sun Blade X6440	16/4	Opteron 8389	2.9	16	226	292
HP ProLiant BL680c G5	24/4	Xeon E7458	2.4	24	247	268
SPARC Enterprise M5000	32/8	SPARC64 VII	2.4	63	232	264
IBM Power 550	8/4	POWER6+	5.0	16	215	263
Sun Fire X2270	8/2	Xeon X5570	2.93	16	223	260
SPARC Enterprise T5240	16/2	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.6	127	171	183
SPARC Enterprise M4000	16/4	SPARC64 VII	2.53	32	136	152	New
SPARC Enterprise M4000	16/4	SPARC64 VII	2.4	32	118	135

SPECfp_rate2006 results - large systems

System	Processors			Base Copies	Performance Results		Comments
	Cores/ Chips	Type	GHz		Base	Peak
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth	1024/512	Itanium 2	1.6	1020	10583	na
SGI Altix 4700 Density	1024/512	Itanium 2	1.66	1020	10580	na
Sun Blade X6440 Cluster	768/192	Opteron 8384	2.7	705	6502	na
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth	256/128	Itanium 2	1.6	256	3419	3507
ScaleMP vSMP Foundation	128/32	Xeon X5570	2.93	255	2553	na
IBM Power 595	64/32	POWER6	5.0	128	1681	2184
IBM Power 595	64/32	POWER6	5.0	128	1822	2108
SPARC Enterprise M9000	256/64	SPARC64 VII	2.88	511	1930	2100	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	256/64	SPARC64 VII	2.52	511	1861	2005
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth	128/64	Itanium 2	1.66	128	1832	1947
HP Superdome	128/64	Itanium 2	1.6	128	1422	1479
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/32	SPARC64 VII	2.88	255	1190	1250	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/64	SPARC64 VI	2.4	255	1160	1225
SPARC Enterprise M9000	128/32	SPARC64 VII	2.52	255	1059	1110
IBM Power 575	32/16	POWER6	4.7	64	730	839
SPARC Enterprise M8000	64/16	SPARC64 VII	2.88	127	616	666	New
SPARC Enterprise M9000	64/32	SPARC64 VI	2.52	127	588	636
IBM Power 570	32/16	POWER6+	4.2	64	517	602
SPARC Enterprise M8000	64/32	SPARC64 VI	2.4	127	538	582

SPECfp_rate2006 results - small systems

System	Processors			Base Copies	Performance Results		Comments
	Cores/ Chips	Type	GHz		Base	Peak
Supermicro H8QM8-2	24/4	Opteron 8435 SE	2.8	24	261	287
SPARC Enterprise T5440	32/4	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.6	255	254	270
IBM Power 560	16/8	POWER6+	3.6	32	226	263
SPARC Enterprise M5000	32/8	SPARC64 VII	2.53	64	218	234	New
SPARC Enterprise M5000	32/8	SPARC64 VII	2.4	63	208	223
IBM Power 550	8/4	POWER6+	5.0	16	188	222
ASUS Z8PE-D18	8/2	Xeon X5570	2.93	16	197	203
SPARC Enterprise T5240	16/2	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.6	127	124	133
SPARC Enterprise M4000	16/4	SPARC64 VII	2.53	32	111	116	New
SPARC Enterprise M4000	16/4	SPARC64 VII	2.4	32	107	112

Results and Configuration Summary

Test Configurations:

Results Summary:

Benchmark Description

SPEC CPU2006 is SPEC's most popular benchmark, with over 8000 results published in the three years since it was introduced. It measures:

• "Speed" - single copy performance of chip, memory, compiler
• "Rate" - multiple copy (throughput)

The rate metrics are used for the throughput-oriented systems described on this page. These metrics include:

• SPECint_rate2006: throughput for 12 integer benchmarks derived from real applications such as perl, gcc, XML processing, and pathfinding
• SPECfp_rate2006: throughput for 17 floating point benchmarks derived from real applications, including chemistry, physics, genetics, and weather.

There are "base" variants of both the above metrics that require more conservative compilation, such as using the same flags for all benchmarks.

Key Points and Best Practices

Result on this page for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server were measured on a Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M9000. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 and Fujitsu SPARC Enterprise M9000 are electronically equivalent. Results for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000, M4000 and M5000 were measured on those systems. The similarly named Fujitsu sytems are electronically equivalent.

Use the latest compiler. The Sun Studio group is always working to improve the compiler. Sun Studio 12 Update 1, which are used in these submissions, provides updated code generation for a wide variety of SPARC and x86 implementations.

I/O still counts. Even in a CPU-intensive workload, some I/O remains. This point is explored in some detail at http://blogs.sun.com/jhenning/entry/losing_my_fear_of_zfs.

See Also

• SPEC Home Page

Disclosure Statement

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive results from www.spec.org as of 7 October 2009. Sun's new results quoted on this page have been submitted to SPEC. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 2400 SPECint_rate_base2006, 2590 SPECint_rate2006, 1930 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 2100 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (32 chips) 1370 SPECint_rate_base2006, 1450 SPECint_rate2006, 1190 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 1250 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 706 SPECint_rate_base2006, 753 SPECint_rate2006, 616 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 666 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 267 SPECint_rate_base2006, 296 SPECint_rate2006, 218 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 234 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 136 SPECint_rate_base2006, 152 SPECint_rate2006, 111 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 116 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.52GHz) 2088 SPECint_rate_base2006, 2288 SPECint_rate2006, 1860 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 2010 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (32 chips 2.52GHz) 1140 SPECint_rate_base2006, 1240 SPECint_rate2006, 1060 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 1110 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (2.52GHz) 565 SPECint_rate_base2006, 637 SPECint_rate2006, 538 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 582 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 (2.4GHz) 232 SPECint_rate_base2006, 264 SPECint_rate2006, 208 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 223 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 (2.4GHz) 118 SPECint_rate_base2006, 135 SPECint_rate2006, 107 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 112 SPECfp_rate2006; IBM Power 595 1866 SPECint_rate_base2006, 2155 SPECint_rate2006,

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