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Truly Outstanding Webserving Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, WOW!!!

Tuesday Oct 09, 2007

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 obtained a world record SPECweb2005 result 37,001 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T2 running Solaris 10 with Sun Java System Web Server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 22% greater performance than the four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 has 2.1x better power-performance and has 4.1x better SWaP. Yes, beats FOUR SOCKETs filled with QUAD_CORE!

See below if you are not familiar with SWaP and why you should care about the SWaP 'figure of merit.'

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 66% greater performance than the 4-socket HP ProLiant DL585 G2 with 3 GHz dual-core Opteron processors.  In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 has 2.2x better power-performance and has 4.4x better SWaP.

There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECweb benchmark.  The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server is 4.7 times faster than the 4-core IBM p550 1.9GHz POWER5+. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 has 5.7x better power-performance and has 11.5x better SWaP.

This world record benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 running the Solaris 10 08/07 and Java System Webserver 7.0 Update 2 can support thousands of concurrent secure and non secure web server sessions while allowing larger and more complex Java applications to be run and is an industry leader in web serving.

Cryptography performance is enhanced on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 by using UltraSPARC T2's enhanced on-chip cryptographic hardware with Solaris 10's secured web service software feature. SPECweb2005's banking workload highlights the server's secure web server performance. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (63,000 SPECweb2005_Banking) performance was 21% greater than the 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Xeon HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (52,160 SPECweb2005_Banking).

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 ] )

One thing you'll note is Sun execs are using the term "power-performance", maybe they've been getting the word from some of us that it should be coputed as "watt/perf". Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to $/perf they are both calculated with "performance" in the denominator.

Competitive Landscape

Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 10/04/2007. Complete information at: http://www.spec.org website.

System Chip, Core Proc GHz OS Web Server SPEC web 2005 Bank Ecom Supp
Sun SE T5220 1, 8 US T2/1.4 Solaris 08/07 Sun JSWS 7.0u2 37001 63000 49500 36000
HP PL DL580 G5 4, 4 Xeon QC 2.993GHz RedHat Linux Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 30261 52160 42048 28000
HP PL DL585 G2 4, 2 Opteron DC 3GHz RedHat Linux Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 22254 38400 30720 20704
HP PL ML370 G5 4, 4 Xeon QC 2.66GHz RedHat Linux Rock1.4.0 JRock v1.2.0 19661 34720 27264 17792
Sun Fire T2000 1, 8 US T1 1.4GHz Solaris 11/06 Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b 16407 25812 24048 15768
Sun Fire T2000 1, 8 US T1 1.2GHz Solaris Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b 14001 21500 21500 13160
Sun Fire T1000 1, 8 US T1 1.0 GHz Solaris Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b 10466 20000 16500 7700
IBM p5 550 2, 2 POWER5+ 1.9GHz SuSE Linux Zeus4.3r1 Tomcat5.5.9 7881 12240 11820 7500

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 results currently under SPEC review.

Benchmark Description

SPECweb2005, is the latest industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:

  • Measures simultaneous user sessions
  • Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
  • Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
  • Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce (HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
  • Simulates browser caching effects
  • File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access patterns

Disclosure Statement:

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 37001 SPECweb2005, submitted to SPEC for review on October 8, 2007. HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 30261 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL585 G2 (8 cores, 4 chips) 22254 SPECweb2005.; HP ProLiant ML370 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 19661 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G4 (8 cores, 4 chips) 18981 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 16407 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466 SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 8, 2007.

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server power consumption taken from measurements made during the benchmark run. Power is average measured watts during benchmark run. HP DL580 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x 36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilisation on 9/10/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp HP DL385G2 power consumption from HP Power Calculator for system configured with 2 x AMD 2220 2.8GHz processors, redundant PSU, 8 x 4GB DIMMs, 2 x HBAs and 2 x 146GB SAS drives, 80% utilisation on 6/4/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp IBM 550 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the Maximum Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted atftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF.

Results Summary

Certified Results 37,001 SPECweb2005
Reference Date: October 9, 2007
Systems: 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
Total Number Processors: 1 chip / 8 cores (8 threads/core)
CPU/GHz of Server: Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz
Operating System: Solaris 10 08/07 + patches
Software: Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 2

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Posted at 03:36PM Oct 09, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
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There is a typo in your IBM p5 550 result. The p5 550 SUT is a 4 cores, 2 chips configuration.

Posted by Mark on October 10, 2007 at 10:58 AM PDT #

Disregard my post. I thought your core information was total cores, not cores per chip.

Posted by Mark on October 10, 2007 at 10:59 AM PDT #

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