New Table of published power-performance data
Friday Jan 16, 2009
Here us an upated table of power-performance benchmarks, trying to hightlight easy to measure watts on many different standard benchmarks.
I put the number of published benchmarks that show watt-performance for Sun and use "0" zero for those that have ZERO information on the measured watts used during the benchmark. What is behind this stonewall of red? It is really funny that some vendors avoid showing easy-to-measure power on performance benchmarks with real configurations. Is it that they have only have a advantage on special configurations?
Power-Performance Benchmarks
| Benchmarks | Sun | IBM | HP | Dell | Unisys |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPECweb/other-web | Yes 6/1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPECjbb | Yes: 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPECjAppServer | Yes: 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPECmail | Yes: 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPEComp | Yes: 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lotus Domino iNotes | Yes: 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oracle's Siebel CRM 8.0 | Yes: 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| VMmark | Yes: 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MySQL | Yes: 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| ERP (CDA/NDA needed) | Yes: 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| SPECpower | SPECpower Issues |
Yes | Yes | Yes | 0 |
Want more details on Sun's published measured watts, last week I posted "Sun's 2008 summary of measured watts & watt/performance": http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/sun_s_2008_summary_of
Some other thoughts for those really interested in saving real energy:
- Power-management software should be on by default or NOT ALLOWED IN BENCHMARKS!
- Increase server utilisation to most effectively reduce power consumed! Servers are very very inefficient at low-utilisation!
- look at watt-performance NOT perf/watt when comparing servers!
- replace incandescents with CFL lights.
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPECweb, SPECjbb, SPECjAppServer, SPEComp, and SPECpower benchmark name are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. VMware(R) VMmark(R) is a product of VMware, an EMC Company. Oracle, Siebel, registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. More info www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/white-papers-siebel.html NotesBench R6iNotes More info: www.notesbench.org
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