World Record SPECompL2001 on Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000

Wednesday Apr 18, 2007

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) set a World Record on the SPECompL2001 benchmark with a score of 1230446. The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) set a World Record on the SPECompLbase2001 benchmark with a score of 1148235.

Don't let the core count confuse you, IBM cores cost over twice Sun's cores. Look at the other benchmark results posted to see that IBM costs more, is slower, and has fewer cores - but it is the best IBM that offers.

SPEComp2001 Performance Chart - SPECompL2001 (bigger is better, ordered by peak metric)

Result		Cores	Chips	OpenMP Threads	System
Peak	Base
1230446	1148235	128	64	128	Sun SE M9000, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz
1056459	1005583	64	32	128	IBM p5-595, POWER5+ 2.3GHz
1005076	987139	256	128	256	SGI Altix 4700, Itanium2 1.6GHz

Benchmark Description

The SPEC OMPL2001 Benchmark Suite was released in June 2001 and tests HPC performance using OpenMP for parallelism. SPEC OMPL2001 consists of 9 programs (2 in C and 7 in Fortran) parallelized using OpenMP API.

Goals of suite:

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 04/17/07. Sun results submitted to SPEC. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128 OMP threads, 128 cores, 64 chips, 2.4GHz) 1230446 SPECompL2001. SGI Altix 4700, Itanium 2 (256 OMP threads, 256 cores, 128 chips) 1005076 SPECompL2001. IBM p5-595 (128 OMP threads, 64 cores, 32 chips) 1056459 SPECompL2001. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128 cores, 64 chips, 128 OMP threads, 2.4GHz) 1148235 SPECompLbase2001.

Result
	M9000:		1230446 SPECompL2001
Reference Date:			Apr 17, 2007
System:			Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000
Total Number Processors:			64
Total Memory :			1 TB (512x2GB DIMMs)
Processor/GHz of Server:			SPARC64 VI, 2.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10
Compiler:			Sun Studio 12

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Posted at 08:46AM Apr 18, 2007 in Benchmarks
Tags: m9000 sparc64 specompl2001