2-chip SPEC CPU2006 Rate World Records: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Thursday Apr 10, 2008

Sun has announced two-chip world record results for SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006. These results were run on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server which uses the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor running at 1.4 GHz.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "peak" result of 157 on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "base" result of 142 on the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark.

A 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat the 2-chip IBM 4.7GHz POWER6 based p 570 by 29% on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivers 1.9X the throughput performance of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as measured by SPECint_rate2006 in the same amount of space.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "peak" result of 119 on the SPECfp_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "base" result of 111 on the SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmark.

A 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat the 2-chip IBM 4.7GHz POWER6 based p 570 by 3% on the SPECfp_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivers 1.9X the throughput performance of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as measured by SPECfp_rate2006 in the same amount of space.

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected recent results.

SPECint_rate2006

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun SE T5240	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.4	2	16	128	157	142
Supermicro X7DWA-N	Xeon X5482	3.2	2	8	8	147	121
SGI Altix XE 250	Xeon X5472	3.0	2	8	8	143	119
HP DL160 G5	Xeon X5472	3.0	2	8	8	140	115
IBM p 570	Power6	4.7	2	4	8	122	108

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

SPECfp_rate2006

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun SE T5240	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.4	2	16	128	119	111
IBM p 570	POWER6	4.7	2	4	8	116	98.8
IBM i 570	POWER6	4.7	2	4	8	115	102
HP BL685c G5	Opteron 8356	2.3	2	8	8	89.8	82.0
HP DL385 G5	Opteron 2356	2.3	2	8	8	89.3	81.1

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

Benchmark Description

SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.

Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.

The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006, 142 SPECint_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006; IBM p 570 (POWER6, 2 chips, 4 cores), 122 SPECint_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 83.2 SPECint_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006, 111 SPECfp_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006; IBM p 570 (POWER6, 2 chips, 4 cores), 116 SPECfp_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006.

Results Summary

Results
Reference Date:			Apr 9, 2008
System:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Processor:			Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 1.4 GHz
			157 SPECint_rate2006
			142 SPECint_rate_base2006
			119 SPECfp_rate2006
			111 SPECfp_rate_base2006
Software:			Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler

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Posted at 08:00AM Apr 10, 2008 in Benchmarks
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