Lotus Domino R6iNotes World Record: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Wednesday Apr 09, 2008
...at least one more world record writeup from me today, its getting late on this busy day. so without further adieu...
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server,
equipped with 2 Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus
chips (8cores/chip @1.2GHz, 8 threads/core), using Lotus Domino 7.0.1 mail
server delivered the overall World Record Performance, 2nd.
best Price/performance (it is beaten slightly by another Sun result 
) and best power-performance for the Lotus[R] R6iNotes on Domino mail server benchmark.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, equipped with 2 UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors with max 128 threads of execution achieved the overall World Record performance of 65000 R6iNotes users using the Lotus Domino 7.0.1 Messaging Server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with 2 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus achieved 18% more performance and 42% better price/performance than the 4-chip IBM p560Q 1.8GHz dual-core POWER5+ server.
The Sun Enterprise T5240 R6iNotes has the best price/performance than all other competitor's systems, including IBM and HP, for the R6iNotes benchmark.
The Sun Enterprise T5240 has 2.6X better power-performance and 10.6X better SWAP than IBM POWER5+ IBMp560Q.
The 4RU IBM p550Q Power5+ used 2X times the space of the 2RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 system.
The 8RU IBM p560Q Power5+ used 4X times the space of the 2RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 system.
The SWaP metric is a measure of Server effeciency ratio that includes System performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark (SWaP = Performance/[Space(RU)xWatts])
power-performance is computed as Watts/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator
Lotus Domino 7.0.1 NotesBench R6iNotes Performance Chart (in increasing $/User order)
Users = number of users supported (bigger is better)
NotesMark
= the benchmark metric (bigger is better)
$/User = cost per user
(smaller is better)
|
System |
Chip GHz |
Cores/ |
OS |
USERS |
N-MARK |
#Dom Part |
AvRT |
$/User |
|
Sun T5240 |
2xUS T2 Plus 1.2 |
8 |
Sol10 |
65000 |
55101 |
6 |
224ms |
$2.84 |
|
IBM-P5 560Q |
2xPOWER5+ 1.8 |
4 |
AIXL |
55000 |
46103 |
6 |
848ms |
$4.89 |
|
Sun T5220 |
1x US T2 1.4 |
8 |
Sol10 |
43000 |
36240 |
6 |
584ms |
$2.89 |
|
Sun V890 |
8x USIV+ 2.1 |
2 |
Sol10 |
40000 |
33862 |
4 |
324ms |
$7.19 |
|
HP BL 480c |
2x Xeon 2.6 |
4 |
Win 2003 |
27000 |
23117 |
3 |
517ms |
$13.27 |
|
HP BL 685c |
2x Opt 8222 2.6 |
4 |
Win 2003 |
26000 |
22329 |
3 |
612ms |
$14.20 |
|
IBM-P5 550Q |
2x POWER5 1.5 |
4 |
AIXL |
24000 |
20108 |
4 |
932ms |
$5.97 |
|
Sun T2000 |
1x US T1 1.4 |
8 |
Sol10 |
23200 |
19518 |
4 |
692ms |
$4.48 |
|
IBM X3650 |
2x Xeon 3.8 |
2 |
Linux |
22000 |
17777 |
4 |
3056ms |
$3.47 |
|
Sun T2000 |
1xUS T1 1.2 |
8 |
Sol10 |
19000 |
16061 |
4 |
400ms |
$3.94 |
|
HP Pro DL580 |
4x Xeon 3.0 |
2 |
Win 2003 |
18500 |
15953 |
4 |
434ms |
$4.15 |
|
HP BL465c |
2x Opt 2222 3.0 |
2 |
Win 2003 |
17500 |
15092 |
2 |
337ms |
$16.30 |
|
Sun X4200 |
2X Opt 254 2.8 |
2 |
Linux |
17000 |
14347 |
4 |
496ms |
$2.66 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the Lotus NotesBench website http://www.notesbench.org.
Benchmark Description
The benchmark simulates active users accessing their Domino[R] R6iNotes mail files via standard Web browser. Each simulated user periodically sends, retrieves, and deletes a specified number of e-mail messages from a browser. An average user runs this script four times per hour.
The R5iNotes and R6iNotes workloads, using the Lotus Domino Mail server (R5 or R6) are both HTTP based workloads. R6iNotes is heavier with added features and larger mail files using the MIME format.
The Lotus Webmail and iNotes workloads are NOT comparable.
Disclosure Statement:
NotesBench R6iNotes Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2chip, 8cores/chip@1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 8threads/core, 128GB, 6 partitions, Solaris[TM] 10 , Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 65000 users, $2.84per user, 55101 NotesMark tpm, 224ms avg rt. , IBM eServer 550Q, 8x1.5GHz POWER5, 32GB, 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 24000 users, $5.97 per user, 20108 NotesMark tpm, 932 ms avg rt., IBM eServer 560Q, 8x1.8GHz POWER5+, 64GB, 6 partitions, AIX5L V5.3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 55000 users, $4.89 per user, 46193 NotesMark tpm, 848ms avg rt. More info: www.notesbench.org
IBM p5 550Q power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the maximum Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted at ftp:/ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server Power consumption has been measured during the full benchmark execution.
Results Summary
|
Audited Results |
|||
| Users: | 65000 | ||
| NotesMark: | 55101 | ||
| Price Performance: | $2.84 $/User | ||
| Price Performance: | $3.35 $ /NotesMark | ||
| Response: | 224 ms | ||
| Systems: | One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 | ||
| Number Processors: | 2 chips, 8cores/chip@1.2GHz, 8 threads/core | ||
| Speed of Processors: | 1200 MHz | ||
| Storage: | 6xSTK2540(12x143GB), 8xSTK2501 (12x143GB) | ||
| Notes Version: | Lotus Domino 7.0.1 | ||
| #Domino Partition | 6 | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 | ||
| Cost: | $184,554.00 | ||
| Other Performance Metrics | |||
| Users/CPU: | 65000 | ||
| Users/Core | 4062 | ||
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