Java performance: Sun Fire E25K UltraSPARC IV+ Beats HP Superdome Itanium 2
Tuesday May 08, 2007
Sun leads the way, beating Itanium2 and POWER5+(by a lot):
- Sun Fire E25K with dual-core US-IV+ beats the HP Superdome with dual-core Itanium 2.
- Sun Fire E25K is 6.4 times faster than the fastest IBM POWER5+ p5 570 result (1.9GHz 16 cores) of 326,651 bops. Note: The largest IBM p5 595 only has 4 times as many POWER5+ cores. IBM has not published this benchmark on their largest systems. why does IBM keep avoiding comparison to Sun on accepted standard benchmarks like SPECjbb2005?
- Sun Fire E25K 1.95GHz US-IV+ also beats the Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 2.08GHz SPARC64 V by 67%.
The 6.0_02 version of the Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server VM showed a 27% improvement of the 6.0 version on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. The Sun Fire E25K result used Solaris 10.
SPECjbb2005 Performance (ordered by performance bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second, bigger is better)
| System | Date | Processors | Performance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Chips, Cores, Threads) | GHz Type | bops | JVMs | bops/JVM | ||
| Sun Fire E25K | 5/07 | 72, 144, 144 | 1.95 US-IV+ | 2,105,264 | 72 | 29,240 |
| HP Superdome | 9/06 | 64, 128, 128 | 1.6 Itanium 2 | 2,054,864 | 32 | 64,215 |
| Fujitsu PP2500 | 3/06 | 128, 128, 128 | 2.08 SPARC64 V | 1,251,024 | 32 | 39,095 |
| IBM p5 570 | 1/06 | 8, 16, 32 | 2.2 POWER5+ | 326,651 | 8 | 40,831 |
Sun results have been submitted to SPEC for review and are on track for publication.
Benchmark Description
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 SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).
Disclosure Statement:
SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire E25K (72 chips, 144 cores, 1.95 GHz) 2,105,264 SPECjbb2005 bops, 29,240 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review; Sun Fire E25K (72 chips, 144 cores, 1.95 GHz) 1,657,274 SPECjbb2005 bops, 23,018 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; HP Itanium Superdome (64 chips, 128 cores, 1.6 GHz) 2,054,864 SPECjbb2005 bops, 64,215 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 (128 chips, 128 cores, 2.08 Ghz) 1,251,024 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39,095 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; IBM eServer p5 570 (8 chips, 16 cores, 2.2 GHz) 326,651 SPECjbb2005 bops, 40,831 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 5/8/07 on www.spec.org
| Certified Results | |||
| Performance: | 2,105,264 SPECjbb2005 bops | ||
| 29,240 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM | |||
| Reference Date: | May 8, 2007 | ||
| Systems: | Sun Fire E25K | ||
| Processor/GHz: | 72 US-IV+ 1.95 GHz | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 | ||
| JVM: | Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 6.0_02 | ||
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