World Record SPEC OMP2001 Sun Blade X8420
Thursday Jan 11, 2007
The Sun Fire X8420 M2 topped the IBM System p5 550 (2.1 GHz, 4 CPU) result by 16%. The Sun Blade X8420 delivers the best performance on the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark suite of all systems running 8-threads results using dual-core AMD Opteron 8220, produced best SPECompM2001 result of 23224.
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.
More info on sun.com X8420 Benchmark Page.
SPECompM2001 (bigger is better, ordered by peak metric)
| Result | Cores | Chips | Thrds | System | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peak | Base | ||||
| 23224 | 22531 | 8 | 4 | 8 | Sun Blade X8420 M2, Opteron 8220, 2.8GHz,64GB |
| 21167 | 20409 | 8 | 4 | 8 | Sun Fire X4600 M2, Opteron 8220SE, 2.8GHz,16GB |
| 20319 | 19708 | 8 | 8 | 8 | Sun Fire X4600, Opteron 856, 3.0GHz |
| 19983 | 15355 | 4 | 2 | 8 | IBM System p5 550 (2.1 GHz, 4 CPU) |
| 19653 | 18949 | 8 | 4 | 8 | Sun Blade X8400, Opteron 885, 2.6GHz |
| 17948 | 16621 | 8 | 4 | 8 | HP DL585, Opteron 880, 2.4GHz |
| 16096 | 14335 | 8 | 4 | 8 | IBM 570, POWER5, 1.9 GHz |
Benchmark Description
The SPEC OMPM2001 Benchmark Suite was released in June 2001 and tests HPC performance using OpenMP for parallelism.
- 11 programs (3 in C and 8 in Fortran) parallelized using OpenMP API
- Targeted to mid-range (4-32 processor) parallel systems
- Run rules, tools and reporting similar to SPEC CPU2000
- Programs representative of HPC and Scientific Applications
Disclosure Statement:
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SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.SPEC.org as of Jan 08, 2007, Sun result submitted to SPEC.
Sun Blade X8420 (8 cores, 4 chips, 8 threads), 23,224 SPECompM2001.
IBM System p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips, 8 threads), 19,983 SPECompM2001.
Sockets refers to chips.
Results Summary
| Result | |||
| X8420 8-threads: | 23224 SPECompM2001 | ||
| Reference Date: | Jan 09, 2007 | ||
| System: | Sun Blade X8420 | ||
| Total Memory : | 64 GB DDR667 (16x4GB DIMMs) | ||
| Processors/GHz: | Four Opteron 8220, 2.8 GHz | ||
| Operating System: | Solaris 10 | ||
| Compiler: | Sun Studio 11 | ||
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