FAST! Sun Fire E25K JBB2005 World Record
Thursday Feb 23, 2006
The Sun Fire E25K with US-IV+ achieved World Record performance on the SPECjbb2005 server-side Java benchmark. These results are now public and you'll see them on sun.com before long. It will take 2-3 weeks for you to find it published on www.spec.org
- The Sun Fire E25K with US-IV+ achieved World Record performance on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark, beating the recently announced result from Fujitsu for the PRIMEPOWER 2500 with SPARC64 V.
- Both the Sun Fire E25K result and the Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 result were obtained using Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server VM on Solaris, version 1.5.0_06.
- Both the Sun Fire E25K result and the Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 result were obtained on systems running Solaris 10.
- The Sun Fire E25K system costs $4.1M, while the PRIMEPOWER 2500 costs $5.8M. As a reminder a 64-core DDR2 memory IBM p5 595 512GB costs about $6.7M.
- One has to look at total server price since $/thread & $/core vary greatly vendor to vendor. No wonder perf/core is all over the place.
- Sun was 4.8 times faster than the fastest IBM result which was the IBM p5 570 (1.9GHz 16 cores) which has a result of 244,361 bops. Note: The largest IBM p5 595 has 4 times as many cores of the same 1.9GHz. I'll let someone else estimate or publish what their result would be on a full up IBM p5 595.
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 bops (Business Operations per Second) and bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).
Required Disclosure Statement
SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire E25K (72-way, 72 chips, 144 cores) 1,164,995 bops, 32,361 bops/JVM submitted for review, Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 (128 chips, 128 cores) 1,157,619 bops, 72,351 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 570 (8 chips, 16 cores, 16-way) 244,361 bops, 30,545 bops/JVMSPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 02/10/06 on www.spec.org. Prices based on publicly documented discounted list prices.
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