Significance of Results
A Sun Constellation system, composed of 48 Sun Blade X6440 server modules in a Sun Blade 6048 chassis, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler delivered World Record SPEC CPU2006 rate results.
On the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark, Sun delivered 4.7 times more performance than the IBM power 595 (5GHz POWER6); this IBM system requires a slightly larger cabinet than the Sun Blade 6048 chassis (details below).
On the SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmark Sun delivered 3.9 times more performance than the largest IBM power 595 (5GHz POWER6); this IBM system requires a slightly larger cabinet than the Sun Blade 6048 chassis (details below).
- The Sun Constellation System equipped with AMD Opteron QC 8384 2.7 GHz processors, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 update 1 compiler, delivered the World Record SPECint_rate_base2006 score of 8840.
- This SPECint_rate_base2006 score beat the previous record holding score by over three times.
- The Sun Constellation System equipped with AMD Opteron QC 8384 2.7 GHz processors, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 update 1 compiler, delivered the fastest x86 SPECfp_rate_base2006 score of 6500.
- This SPECfp_rate_base2006 score beat the previous x86 record holding score by nine times.
Performance Landscape
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.
SPECint_rate2006
| System | Processors | Performance Results | Notes (1) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Peak | Base | ||
| Sun Blade 6048 | Opteron 8384 | 2.7 | 192 | 768 | |
8840 | New Record |
| SGI Altix 4700 Density System | Itanium 9150M | 1.66 | 128 | 256 | 3354 | 2893 | Previous Best |
| SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System | Itanium2 9040 | 1.6 | 128 | 256 | 2971 | 2715 | |
| Fujitsu/Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 | SPARC64 VII | 2.52 | 64 | 256 | 2290 | 2090 | |
| IBM Power 595 | POWER6 | 5.0 | 32 | 64 | 2160 | 1870 | Best POWER6 |
(1) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.
SPECfp_rate2006
| System | Processors | Performance Results | Notes (2) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Peak | Base | ||
| SGI Altix 4700 Density System | Itanium 9140M | 1.66 | 512 | 1024 | |
10580 | |
| Sun Blade 6048 | Opteron 8384 | 2.7 | 192 | 768 | |
6500 | New x86 Record |
| SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System | Itanium2 9040 | 1.6 | 128 | 256 | 3507 | 3419 | |
| IBM Power 595 | POWER 6 | 5.0 | 64 | 32 | 2184 | 1681 | Best POWER6 |
| Fujitsu/Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 | SPARC64 VII | 2.52 | 64 | 256 | 2005 | 1861 | |
| SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System | Itanium 9150M | 1.66 | 128 | 256 | 1947 | 1832 | |
| SGI Altix ICE 8200EX | Intel X5570 | 2.93 | 8 | 32 | 742 | 723 | |
(2) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.
(2) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.
Results and Configuration Summary
Hardware Configuration:-
1 x Sun Blade 6048
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48 x Sun Blade X6440, each with
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4 x 2.7 GHz QC AMD Opteron 8384 processors
32 GB, (8 x 4GB)
Software Configuration:
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O/S: OpenSolaris 2008.11
Compiler: Sun Studio 12 Update 1
Other SW: MicroQuill SmartHeap Library 9.01 x64
Benchmark: SPEC CPU2006 V1.1
Key Points and Best Practices
The Sun Blade 6048 chassis is able to contain a variety of server modules. In this case, the Sun Blade X6440 was used to provide this capacity solution. This single rack delivered results which have not been seen in this form factor.To run this many jobs, the benchmark requires a reasonably good file server where the benchmark is run. The Sun Fire X4540 server was used to provide the disk space required being accessed by NFS by the blades.
Sun has shown 4.7x greater SPECint_rate_base2006 and
3.9x greater SPECfp_rate_base2006 in a slightly smaller cabinet.
IBM specifications are at:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/595/specs.html.
One frame (slimline doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 58.5"D weight: 3,376 lb.
One frame (acoustic doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 71.1"D weight: 3,422 lb.
The Sun Blade 6048 specifications are at:
http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/6048chassis/specs.xml
One Sun Blade 6048: 81.6"H x 23.9"W x 40.3"D weight: 2,300 lb
(fully configured).