Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 4-thread 2-socket World Record beats IBM Power5+
Wednesday Oct 25, 2006
The Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 using Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11 delivers the best performance on the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark suite of all 2-socket systems running 4-threads. The Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 beat the IBM p5 520 POWER5+ 1.9GHz AIX5L V5.3 result by 61%
The results show that the combination of Solaris 10 using Sun Studio 11 is unmatched by the competition for assisting users in writing parallel code.
SPECompM2001 Performance Comparison (bigger is better):
| Result | Cores | Chips | Thrds | System | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak | Base | ||||
| 13222 | 12763 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2, Opteron 2220SE, 2.8GHz |
| 12574 | 12127 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Sun Fire X2200 M2, Opteron 2218, 2.6GHz |
| 10964 | 10424 | 4 | 2 | 4 | Sun Fire X4100, Opteron 285, 2.6GHz |
| 8174 | 8141 | 2 | 1 | 4 | IBM System p5 520 (1.9 GHz, 2 CPU) |
See Also
Benchmark Description
The SPEC OMPM2001 Benchmark Suite was released in June 2001 and tests HPC performance on a variety of scientific applications using OpenMP for parallelism. It consists of 11 programs (8 fp and 3 int intensive) in C and Fortran parallelized using OpenMP API
System Configuration:
- Sun Fire X4100/X4200
- 2 x 2.8 GHz Opteron 2220SE processors
- 16GB memory (4x2GB per chip), DDR667
- Solaris 10
- Sun Studio 11
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 16, 2006, Sun result submitted to SPEC. Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 (4 cores, 2 chips, 4 threads), 13,222 SPECompM2001. IBM System p5 520 (2 cores, 1 chips, 4 threads), 8,174 SPECompM2001. Sockets refers to chips.
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