Datacenter Throughput is King: SPEC CPU2006 Rate Blade System World Record: Sun Blade 6000 w/T6320
Friday Apr 11, 2008
What most people forget, is that datacenters are really throughput engines. I don't know any datacenter (besides home ones) that only use one thread or one core. When you look at racks of servers in a datacenter, you are looking at thousands of threads! Which means 10,000 to 100,000 or more in a complete datacenter. Lots of work to be done, lots of threads doing it!
Sun has announced blade system world record results for SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006. These results were run on the Sun Blade 6000 system with 10 Sun Blade T6320 server modules which use the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor.
The Sun Blade 6000 system fully populated with 10 T6320 server modules delivered a SPECint_rate2006 score of 838, a world record result for blade systems.
The Sun Blade 6000 system (10 RUs) powered by 10 Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz processors provides 73% more integer throughput than the IBM p 570 (16 RUs) equipped with 8 POWER6 4.7 GHz processors, as measured by SPECint_rate2006.
The Sun Blade 6000 system fully populated with 10 T6320 server modules delivered a blade system world record SPECfp_rate2006 score of 571.
Sun has chosen to submit a single run as both SPECfp_rate_base2006 and SPECfp_rate2006, (which is allowed under the run rules), in order to emphasize that even without aggressive tuning, the score of 571 is a record for both base and peak.
The Sun Blade 6000 system powered by 10 Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz processors provides 73% more floating-point throughput than the IBM p 570 equipped with 8 POWER6 4.7 GHz processors, as measured by SPECfp_rate_base2006.
The IBM p 570 system (16RU) uses 1.6x times more rack units than the 10RU Sun Blade 6000 system(16 RU vs. 10 RU).
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected recent results
SPECint_rate2006
Please see www.spec.org for complete results
| System | Processors | Performance Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Threads | Peak | Base | |
| Sun B6000 w/10 x T6320 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1.4 | 10 | 80 | 640 | 838 | 752 |
| HP Superdome | Itanium 2 | 1.6 | 32 | 64 | 64 | 824 | 770 |
| Sun M9000 | SPARC VI | 2.4 | 32 | 64 | 64 | 650 | 553 |
| IBM p 570 | POWER6 | 4.7 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 484 | 420 |
Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.
SPECfp_rate2006
Please see www.spec.org for complete results or for just SPECfp_rate2006 results ordered by peak score.
| System | Processors | Performance Results | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Threads | Peak | Base | |
| Sun M9000 | SPARC VI | 2.4 | 32 | 64 | 64 | 600 | 556 |
| Sun B6000 w/10 x T6320 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1.4 | 10 | 80 | 640 | 571 | 571 |
| IBM p 570 | POWER6 | 4.7 | 8 | 16 | 32 | 430 | 369 |
| HP rx8640 | Itanium 2 | 1.6 | 16 | 32 | 32 | 371 | 357 |
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 Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 838 SPECint_rate2006, 752 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 Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 838 SPECint_rate2006, 752 SPECint_rate_base2006. IBM p 570 (POWER6, 8 chips, 16 cores), 484 SPECint_rate2006, 420 SPECint_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 Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 571 SPECfp_rate2006, 571 SPECfp_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 Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 571 SPECfp_rate_base2006. IBM p 570 (POWER6, 8 chips, 16 cores), 369 SPECfp_rate_base2006.
Results Summary
| Results | |||
| Reference Date: | Apr 7, 2008 | ||
| System: | Sun Blade 6000 with 10 T6320 Modules | ||
| Processor: | 10 Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1.4 GHz | ||
| 838 SPECint_rate2006 | |||
| 752 SPECint_rate_base2006 | |||
| 571 SPECfp_rate2006 | |||
| 571 SPECfp_rate_base2006 | |||
| Software: | Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler gccfss | ||
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