World Record SPECmail2008 Sun Fire X4540

Wednesday Jan 07, 2009

Sun often leads in publishing new benchmarks, now we have to wait for other vendors to publish, and probably a LOT longer for those same vendors to published measured watt with full-configuration performant benchmark results.

Sun has published the best SPECmail2008 to date on the Sun Fire X4540 server, demonstrates Sun's leadership position in Mail Serving. The results highlights the features of the Sun Fire X4540 single system, which includes 48x internal drives [250GB SATA] in a 4RU packaging, and it was obtained using the highly available ZFS file system, offering continuous integrity checking and automatic repair.

The Sun Fire X4540 server, equipped with two quad-core 2.3GHz Opteron 2356, Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 JES4, the ZFS File System and Solaris 10 Operating System, has achieved the overall record of 3300 SPECmail_MSEnt2008 SMTP and IMAP users at 15,868 SPECmail2008 Sessions/hour.

This benchmark result clearly demonstrates that a single Sun's X4540 with integrated storage, together with the Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 with ZFS on Solaris can support a large, enterprise level IMAP Mail server environment at the highest level of throughput performance, representing a compact, low cost and low power solution.

The Sun Fire X4540 server with 32GB of memory and forty-eight 250GB SATA Internal Disks had an average power consumption of 924 Watts, measured during the SPECmail2008 benchmark steady state.

Published Benchmark Results, SPECmail2008 (ordered by performance)

Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org

Note: Number of SPECmail_MSEnt2008 users (bigger is better), SPECmail2008 Sessions/hour (bigger is better) , Ch/Co: Chips, Cores

Benchmark Description

SPECmail2008 is an industry standard client server benchmark designed to measure a system's ability to act as a mail server compliant with the Internet standards Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and Internet Mail Application Protocol, Version 4 (IMAP4). The benchmark models business user behavior by simulating a real world workload experienced by enterprised based email services. The goal of SPECmail2008 is to enable objective comparisons of mail server products.

Software on one or more client machines generates a benchmark load for a System Under Test (SUT) and measures the SUT response times. A SUT can be a mail server running on a single system or a cluster of systems.

A SPECmail2008 'run' simulates a 100% load level associated with the specific number of users, as defined in the configuration file. The mail server must maintain a specific Quality of Service (QoS) at the 100% load level to produce a valid benchmark result. If the mail server does maintain the specified QoS at the 100% load level, the performance of the mail server is reported as SPECmail_MSEnt2008 SMTP and IMAP Users at SPECmail2008 Sessions per hour. The SPECmail_MSEnt2008 users at SPECmail2008 Sessions per Hour metric reflects the unique workload combination for a SPEC IMAP4 user.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECmail reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 1/6/09 on http://www.spec.org. SPECmail2008: Sun Fire X4540 (8 cores, 2 chip) 3300 SPECmail_MSEnt2008 users at 15,868 SPECmail2008 Sessions/hour. Sun Fire X4200 M2 (4 cores, 2 chip) 2500 SPECmail_MSEnt2008 users at 12,019 SPECmail2008 Sessions/hour.

Results Summary

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Posted at 06:06AM Jan 07, 2009 in Benchmarks
Tags: opteron performance power specmail watt/performance