Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 SPARC64 VI on SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark
Tuesday Apr 17, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) set a World Record for the SAP-SD 2-Tier Standard Application benchmark for systems with 16 or fewer processors as of 04/16/07. The 16-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 with 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI processors achieved 7300 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.
You can see more on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 and other new SPARC64 VI servers at: http://www.sun.com/launch/2007-0417/feature.jsp. Sun is not making customers move -- UltraSPARC IV is still doing great actually FANTASTIC -- but as always Sun is providing customers with a choice. Keep checking back for more SPARC64 VI and UltraSPARC IV+ benchmarks.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order)
| System | OS Database |
Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release |
SAPS | SAPS/ Proc |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 16xSPARC64 VIV+ @2.4GHz 256 GB |
Solaris 10 Oracle 10g |
7300 | 2005 6.0 |
36,570 | 2,285 | 17-Apr-07 |
| Sun Fire E6900 24xUS-IV+ @1.95GHz 96 GB |
Solaris 10 Oracle 10g |
6160 | 2005 6.0 |
30,820 | 1,284 | 03-Apr-07 |
| HP Integrity Superdome-16 16xDual-Core Intel Itanium 2 @1.6GHz 256 GB |
Windows Server 2003 DE SQL Server 2005 |
5600 | 2005 6.0 |
28,200 | 1,762 | 18-Dec-06 |
| IBM p5 570 16xPOWER5+ @2.2GHz 128 GB |
AIX 5.3 DB2 UDB 8.2.2 |
5520 | 2004 5.0 |
27,670 | 1,729 | 25-Jul-06 |
| Fuitsu PRIMEQUEST 480 32xIntel Itanium 2 @1.6GHz 256 GB |
SuSE LES9 Oracle 9i |
5000 | 2004 5.0 |
25,050 | 783 | 11-May-06 |
| Unisys Enterprise Server Model ES7000/one 16xDual-Core Intel Itanium 2 @1.6GHz 256 GB |
Windows Server 2003 DE SQL Server 2005 |
4884 | 2005 6.0 |
24,570 | 1,536 | 19-Dec-06 |
SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark (SAP ECC 6.0) is a bit more heavy-weight than mySAP ERP 2004 (SAP ECC 5.0), which has a performance impact of ~2-3%.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark: Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16-way, 16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI, 256GB memory, 7,300 SD benchmark users, 1.98 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2007026, Oracle 10g database, Solaris 10; Sun Fire E6900 (24-way, 24 processors, 48 cores, 48 threads) 24 x 1.95 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 96GB memory, 6,160 SD benchmark users, 1.99 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2007023, Oracle 10g database, Solaris 10; HP Integrity Superdome-16 (16-way, 16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9050, 256GB memory, 5,600 SD benchmark users, 1.91s avg resp time, Cert#2006090, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition; Unisys Enterprise Server Model ES7000/one (16-way, 16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9050, 256GB memory, 4,884 SD benchmark users, 1.93s avg resp time, Cert#2006091, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition; IBM System p5 570 (16-way, 16 processors, 16 cores, 32 threads) 16 x 2.2 GHz POWER5+, 128 GB memory, 5,520 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006044, DB2 UDB 8.2.2, AIX 5.3; Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 480 (32-way, 32 procs, 32 cores, 32 threads) 32 x 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2, 256 GB memory, 5,000 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006023, Oracle 9i, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark.
Results Summary
Fujitsu has submitted results for the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark.
| Certified Results | |||
| Performance: | 7,300 benchmark users | ||
| Server: | Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 | ||
| Processors: | 16 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI | ||
| Memory: | 256 GB | ||
| Operating system: | Solaris 10 | ||
| Database S/W: | Oracle 10g | ||
| SAP S/W: | SAP ECC 6.0 | ||
| SAP Certification: | #2007026 | ||
| Storage: | Sun StorageTek 6140 | ||
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