Mathematica V6.0 World Records on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
Friday Oct 26, 2007
Sun gets two new World Records for scientific desktop performance on the Sun Ultra 24 (single 3.0 GHz Intel DC Xeon E6850) and the 64-bit SuSE Linux SLED 10 operating system.
Results obtained from the most current competitive platforms have been recently posted for two different Mathematica 6 benchmarks:
- The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark
- The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) benchmark the Ultra 24 beats other current Intel Xeon (Woodcrest) dual core platforms (3.0 GHz & 2.66 GHz), Intel based Apple MAC desktops. Itanium 2 platforms, Pentium 4 platforms, and the IBM Power based platforms.
Alternatively, the independent Mathematica MMA6.0 notebook benchmark the Ultra 24 beats posted results from primarily current competitive Apple MAC desktops: MacPro, MacBook, iMac, and Apple Powerbook G4 Results for both benchmark test suites are shown in the Two Tables below under "Competitive Landscape"
Table 1. The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark
Summary results as in the installed Mathematica 6 Data Base. This is the latest version of Mathematica timing tests. Overall performance in 15 test calculations (Bigger is better) The current reference is a machine with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
| PLATFORM | Score |
|---|---|
| 1 socket DC 3GHz Intel Xeon DC E6850 SLED 10 SP 1 Ultra 24 | 3.266 |
| 2-socket DC 3GHz Intel Xeon 5160 MS 32-bit | 2.84 |
| 2-socket DC 3.2 GHz Opteron 2224 Ultra 40 M2 64-bit SLED 10 32 GB | 2.736 |
| 2-socket DC 3.2GHz Opteron 2224 Ultra 40 M2 32-bit Windows XP SP2 8GB | 2.45 |
| 2 socket DC 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 64-bit Apple MAC 10.4.8 | 2.14 |
| 2 socket QC 1.6 GHz Intel Xeon 5310 32-bit Cent OS Linux | 1.88 |
| 2 socket DC 2.5 GHz G5 Apple MAC OS 10.4.8 32-bit | 1.22 |
| 1 socket 2.4 GHz Pent. 4 MS Win XP 32-bit | 1.00 |
The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
Summary results as listed at the independent Mathematica MMA6 http://smc.vnet.net/timings60.html website. This is the latest version of the "Mathematica MMA" timing tests. Overall performance in 15 test calculations (Bigger is better) The current reference machine is one with a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
| PLATFORM | Score |
|---|---|
| Sun Ultra 24 3.0 GHz DC Intel E6850 8GB SuSE 10 SP 1 | 1.27505 |
| MacPro, 3.0GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB, MacOS 10.4.9 [4] | 1.25404 |
| AMD Athlon 64 FX-74, 3.0GHz Socket F (1207 FX) DSDC, Windows [5] | 1.14464 |
| iMac, 2.33GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 3GB, MacOS 10.4.9 [2] | 1.00338 |
| MacBook Pro, 2.33GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, MacOS X 10.4.9 [1] | 1.00105 |
| MacBook, 2GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB, MacOS 10.4.10 [6] | 0.880472 |
Benchmark Description
The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark
The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) benchmark is a revised one that now comes imbedded in the latest release of Mathematica (currently V6.0) along with a database of results from current hardware vendor platforms. This benchmark was developed by Schoeller Porter, one of the principlal developers of Mathematica. He described the benchmark as follows: This is the standard benchmark suite for Mathematica, initially introduced in Mathematica 5.1 (as MathematicaMark2004). It includes both workstation and parallel benchmarks. The parallel benchmark is automatically invoked when the Parallel Computing Toolkit is loaded and compute kernels are available. It is actively developed, and MathematicaMark 6.0 is the current version.
The 15 Task benchmark includes:
Benchmark Name: MathematicaMark6
Full Version Number:6.0.1
Date: September 14, 2007
Benchmark Result: 3.266
Total Time 26.39
Results:
Data Fitting: 1.273
Digits of Pi: 0.488
Discrete Fourier Transform: 0.765
Eigenvalues of a Matrix: 2.059
Elementary Functions: 3.645
Gamma Function: 0.368
Large Integer Multiplication: 0.734
Matrix Arithmetic: 2.798
Matrix Multiplication: 3.062
Matrix Transpose: 1.298
Numerical Integration: 2.017
Polynomial Expansion: 1.352
Random Number Sort: 1.506
Singular Value Decomposition: 2.346
Solving a Linear System: 2.679
Output
Cell Change Times->{3.398799503863311*^9
The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
The Mathematica MMA 6 benchmark is a widely recognized benchmark. The tasks are representative important scientific computing desktop activities. This benchmark was developed by karl.unterkofler@fh-vorarlberg.ac.at The benchmark consists of 15 tasks.
Disclosure Statement:
Mathematica MMA 6 Scientific Benchmark Sun Fire Ultra 24 score: 1.27505. Mathematica is a reg tm of Wolfram Research, Inc. results as of 10/23/07 on http://smc.vnet.net/timings60.htmlResults Summary
The Sun Ultra 24 workstation gives the best desktop scientific computing performance as demonstrated with both the The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark and the The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark. Both of these 15 task benchmarks consists of operations that are representative of computing a variety of scientific funtions.
| Reference Date | 23 October 2007 |
| The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark | |
| Platform | Sun Ultra 24 Workstation |
| Total Number Processors | 1 |
| Processor/GHz of Workstation | Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz |
| Memory | 4x2 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms |
| Operating System | 64-bit SUSE SLED 10 SP 1 |
| Graphics | nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer |
| Disks | 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped |
| Software |
Mathematica 6 (Scientific Application) Wolfram (ISV) Benchmark |
| Composite Score | 3.266 |
| The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark | |
| Platform | Sun Ultra 24 Workstation |
| Total Number Processors | 1 |
| Processor/GHz of Workstation | Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz |
| Memory | 4x2 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms |
| Operating System | 64-bit SUSE SLED 10 SP 1 |
| Graphics | nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer |
| Disks | 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped |
| Software |
Mathematica 6 (Scientific Application) The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark |
| Composite Score | 1.27505 |
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