Sun Fire X4440 Best Opteron Multi-JVM Performance SPECjbb2005 at 606watts

Thursday May 15, 2008

The Sun Fire X4440 (4 2.3GHz Opteron QC) (system 606watts measured) running Sun Java SE 6 Update 6-p achieved a result of 372467 SPECjbb2005 bops, 46558 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for the best score for all Opteron-based servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.

The Sun Fire X4440 demonstrated better performance over the HP DL585 G5 result of 368,543 SPECjbb2005 bops, 92136 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used 4 2.3GHz Opteron quad-core and the BEA JRocket JDK 1.6.0_03.

The Sun Fire X4440 consumed 606 Watts on average during the execution of this benchmark while occupying 2 RU of space.

The Sun Fire X4440 demonstrated 2.7X better SWaP than the HP DL 585 G5 which requires 4 RU of space and an estimated power rating of 804watts.

The Sun Fire X4440 demonstrated 7% better performance over the IBM p 570 result of 346,742 SPECjbb2005 bops, 86686 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used four 4.7GHz POWER6 (8-cores). The watts on that configuration are estimated power rating of 2,040watts.

The Sun Fire X4440 used Solaris 10 5/08 to obtain this leading result.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

SPECjbb2005 results comparing HP Opteron quad-core, Sun Opteron quad-core and IBM POWER6 4-Chip systems

System		CPU		Perf
name	sys watts	Chip, Core, Thrd	GHz CPU	SPECjbb 2005 bops	JVMs	SPECjbb 2005 bops/JVM
Sun Fire X4440	606w measured	4,16,16	2.3 Opteron 8356	372,467	8	46558
HP DL585 G5	804w pow est	4,16,16	2.3 Opteron 8356	368,543	4	92136
IBM p 570	1,960w pow est	4,8,16	4.7 POWER6	346,742	4	86686

SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)
bops: SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)

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 5/12/08 on www.spec.org. Sun Fire X4440(4 chips, 16 cores) 372467 SPECjbb2005 bops, 46558 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review. HP DL 585 G5(4 chips, 16 cores) 368543 SPECjbb2005 bops, 92136 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p570 (4 chips, 8 cores) 346742 SPECjbb2005 bops, 86686 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.

Power References:

HP ProLiant DL585 G5 power rating of 804W is estimated as 70% of maximum PSU rating published on 5/4/2008 at: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13016_na/13016_na.html

IBM p6 570 power specifications from 70% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF 4-core at 980w, 8-core at 1960w estimates.

Results Summary

Reference Date:			May 13, 2008
Results			372467 SPECjbb2005 bops, 46558 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
System:			Sun Fire X4440
Processor:			4 x AMD Opteron 8356 2.3 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 5/08
JVM:			Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_06-p

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Posted at 12:46PM May 15, 2008 in Benchmark Issues
Tags: performance power specjbb