SPECjbb2005 Sun X4600 M2 X86 World Record Multi-JVM
Tuesday Aug 19, 2008
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8 Opteron 2.5 Ghz QC) running Sun Java SE 6 Update 6-p achieved a result of 683542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for the best score for all x86 based servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 demonstrated 53% better performance over the Dell PowerEdge R900 result of 446209 SPECjbb2005 bops, 55776 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used 4 Intel Xeon quad-core processors at 2.93 GHz and the BEA JRocket JDK 1.6.0_02.
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8-chip) demonstrated 3% better performance over the IBM p570 result of 664167 SPECjbb2005 bops, 83021 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used 8 Power6 dual-core processors.
Note: An IBM blogger made a snarky comment about the fact that Sun "should know better". Sun clearly pointed out this is for 8-chip systems. No other vendor posted results on x86 systems with this many chips on this benchmark so Sun compared to 4-chip x86 results. Maybe IBM would like to publish the price of their (16 RU)POWER6 8-chip system compared to the Sun X4600 M2 as configured for this benchmark? ...or is it easier ignore system price and to confuse people by pointing to core-count, thereby dodging the cost-per-core issue?
The Sun Fire X4600 M2 used Solaris 10 5/08 and Sun JDK 1.6.0_06 Performance Release to obtain this leading result.
SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)
bops: SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)
| System | Processors | Performance | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chips, Cores, Threads | GHz Type | SPECjbb2005 bops |
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM |
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| Sun Fire X4600 M2 | 8,32,32 | 2.5 8360SE | 683542 | 85443 |
| IBM p570 | 8,16,32 | 4.7 POWER6 | 664167 | 83021 |
| Dell PE R900 | 4,16,16 | 2.93 X7350 | 446209 | 55776 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org.
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:
SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 8/7/2008 on www.spec.org. Sun Fire X4600 M2(8 chips, 32 cores) 683542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review. Dell PE R900(4 chips, 16 cores) 446209 SPECjbb2005 bops, 55776 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p570 (8 chips, 16 cores) 664167 SPECjbb2005 bops, 83021 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
Results Summary
| Reference Date: | Aug 8, 2008 | ||
| Results | 683542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM | ||
| System: | Sun Fire X4600 M2 | ||
| Processor: | 8 x AMD Opteron 8360SE 2.5 GHz | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 5/08 | ||
| JVM: | Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_06-p | ||
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