Sun SPARC beats IBM and HP systems on SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark
Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
The Sun Fire E6900 has great performance on SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark as of 04/02/07. The 24-processor Sun Fire E6900 with 1.95 GHz UltraSPARC-IV+ achieved 6160 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark(24 processors, 48 cores, 48 threads).
- The 24-processor Sun Fire E6900 beat the 16-processor IBM p5-570 POWER5+ by 12%.
- The 24-processor Sun Fire E6900 beat the 16-processor HP Integrity Superdome Itanium2 dual-core by 10%.
- Effective 08/31/06 a new SAP R/3 version (ECC 6.0) and kernel (7.00) is required to run the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark. The new version is a bit more heavy-weight than the previous version (ECC 5.0) so older results have a performance advantage.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (#users is perf metric)
| System | OS Database |
Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release |
SAPS | SAPS/ Proc |
Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
SAP has specified that the Benchmark Users metric is the only metric to be used for public comparisons. However, Benchmark Users can be traded off with response time in performance tuning, and so comparing Line Items per Hour or SAPS is a better way to compare the actual power of systems.
Benchmark Description
The SAP Standard Application SD (Sales and Distribution) Benchmark is a two-tier ERP business test that is indicative of full business workloads of complete order processing and invoice processing, and demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system. The SAP Standard Application SD Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments.
SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains systems on the various SAP products.
Example Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark: 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
| Certified Results | |||
| Performance: | 6,160 benchmark users | ||
| Server: | Sun Fire E6900 | ||
| Processors: | 24 x 1.95 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ 32MB L3 Ecache | ||
| Memory: | 96 GB | ||
| Operating system: | Solaris 10 | ||
| Database S/W: | Oracle 10g | ||
| SAP S/W: | SAP ECC 6.0 | ||
| SAP Certification: | #2007023 | ||
| Storage: | Sun StorEdge 3510 and 6140 | ||
...more to come today, keep checking back.
Note: Sun has always called the socket the processor, IBM in the past several years started calling the core the processor. Also note that IBM cores are completely differently designed than Sun so comparing on a per core basis has MANY Problems, please see: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/not_comparing_e25k_p595
