HP's real story about power6

Thursday Apr 17, 2008

HP puts out various "real stories" about competitors. They have an updated one about the new IBM power6 systems. http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/107848-0-0-0-121.aspx

I'll try to comment on some of them:

Fact 1 they state:
IBM software experts have admitted that software already tuned for out-of-order version of POWER is, “no [sic] so good for in-order power6 processor.” “Maximizing Application Performance on POWER” IBM Linux on POWER GCC Team Lead, April 19, 2007, page 8, SW_Summit_gcc_and_tool_chain_Peter.pdf
If you don't understand the issues with"out-of-order", what you can take away is that not every technology that you hear hyped by vendors will give you a true advantage when you look at whole system performance on real applications.

Fact 2 & 3: shows that adding GHz doesn't add delivered performance but it does add a disproportionate number of watts. IBM p 595 (POWER6) 27,500 watts max for 64 cores. 27500w/64-core = 430watts/power6-core

The max rated system electrical load for the POWER6-595 server has increased nearly 5000 watts over the POWER5-p595 for the same number of processors.(ENUS108-257)
Then they go on to compare multi-threaded server chips with a 1-job benchmark. I don't know why they didn't compare on server benchmark SPECrate_int2006, maybe when you test these as servers you see real differences. Let's look at the latest 2-chip results for Itanium2, power6, and UltraSPARC T2 Plus:

A 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat the 2-chip IBM 4.7GHz POWER6-based p570 by 29% on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark, and also beat the 2-chip HP 1.66GHz Itanium-based Integrity rx2660 by 2.5 times on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

Fact 4: shows IBM is raising its software prices.

Fact 5: HP states that AIX 6.1 will be needed to more fully exploit POWER6, and then asks: how many ISV applications are certified for AIX 6.1?

For more on the latest SPECint_rate 2006 results see: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/2_chip_spec_cpu2006_rate

For more on prices on small 4-core IBM: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/some_ibm_power6_actual_prices

I haven't seen anything on IBM p 595 power6 prices 64-core 5GHz, if you have any pointers please post in the comments.

Disclosure statement:
SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006; IBM p 570 (POWER6, 2 chips, 4 cores), 122 SPECint_rate2006, HP Integrity rx2660 (Itanium2, 2-chip, 1.66GHz/18MB), 62.8 SPECint_rate2006.

UltraSPARC T2 Plus: try it yourself on Web, Appl, & Database

Monday Apr 14, 2008

In the last week this blog had talked a lot about the great performance of the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers.

But forget the leading performance, price/performance, watt/perf results, if you want to try it for yourself you can. Sun continues its try-and-buy program and extends it to the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers.

Free 60-day trial program. You pay nothing (Sun even pays the shipping), for details see: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/index.jsp (scroll down to find T5240/T5140)

Reminder: Summary of technical index of CMT blogs @ Allan Packer's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_cmt_goes_multi

I've had several talks with friends at different competitors, and they said they didn't think Sun had it in it to really make a breakthrough in performance, price, and power -- but now they all talk about high-level meetings in their companies (competitors) who are frantically trying to figure out how to counter Sun's offering.

Summary of new CMT

Monday Apr 14, 2008

For a survey of the wide variety of blogs with good technical data on the new UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140,...), please look at Allan Packer's blog index at:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_cmt_goes_multi

Datacenter Throughput is King: SPEC CPU2006 Rate Blade System World Record: Sun Blade 6000 w/T6320

Friday Apr 11, 2008

What most people forget, is that datacenters are really throughput engines. I don't know any datacenter (besides home ones) that only use one thread or one core. When you look at racks of servers in a datacenter, you are looking at thousands of threads! Which means 10,000 to 100,000 or more in a complete datacenter. Lots of work to be done, lots of threads doing it!

Sun has announced blade system world record results for SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006. These results were run on the Sun Blade 6000 system with 10 Sun Blade T6320 server modules which use the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor.

The Sun Blade 6000 system fully populated with 10 T6320 server modules delivered a SPECint_rate2006 score of 838, a world record result for blade systems.

The Sun Blade 6000 system (10 RUs) powered by 10 Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz processors provides 73% more integer throughput than the IBM p 570 (16 RUs) equipped with 8 POWER6 4.7 GHz processors, as measured by SPECint_rate2006.

The Sun Blade 6000 system fully populated with 10 T6320 server modules delivered a blade system world record SPECfp_rate2006 score of 571.

Sun has chosen to submit a single run as both SPECfp_rate_base2006 and SPECfp_rate2006, (which is allowed under the run rules), in order to emphasize that even without aggressive tuning, the score of 571 is a record for both base and peak.

The Sun Blade 6000 system powered by 10 Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz processors provides 73% more floating-point throughput than the IBM p 570 equipped with 8 POWER6 4.7 GHz processors, as measured by SPECfp_rate_base2006.

The IBM p 570 system (16RU) uses 1.6x times more rack units than the 10RU Sun Blade 6000 system(16 RU vs. 10 RU).

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected recent results

SPECint_rate2006

Please see www.spec.org for complete results

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun B6000 w/10 x T6320	UltraSPARC T2	1.4	10	80	640	838	752
HP Superdome	Itanium 2	1.6	32	64	64	824	770
Sun M9000	SPARC VI	2.4	32	64	64	650	553
IBM p 570	POWER6	4.7	8	16	32	484	420

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

SPECfp_rate2006

Please see www.spec.org for complete results or for just SPECfp_rate2006 results ordered by peak score.

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun M9000	SPARC VI	2.4	32	64	64	600	556
Sun B6000 w/10 x T6320	UltraSPARC T2	1.4	10	80	640	571	571
IBM p 570	POWER6	4.7	8	16	32	430	369
HP rx8640	Itanium 2	1.6	16	32	32	371	357

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

Benchmark Description<

SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.

Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.

The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 838 SPECint_rate2006, 752 SPECint_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 838 SPECint_rate2006, 752 SPECint_rate_base2006. IBM p 570 (POWER6, 8 chips, 16 cores), 484 SPECint_rate2006, 420 SPECint_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 571 SPECfp_rate2006, 571 SPECfp_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 10 chips, 80 cores), 571 SPECfp_rate_base2006. IBM p 570 (POWER6, 8 chips, 16 cores), 369 SPECfp_rate_base2006.

Results Summary

Results
Reference Date:			Apr 7, 2008
System:			Sun Blade 6000 with 10 T6320 Modules
Processor:			10 Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1.4 GHz
			838 SPECint_rate2006
			752 SPECint_rate_base2006
			571 SPECfp_rate2006
			571 SPECfp_rate_base2006
Software:			Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler gccfss

UltraSPARC T2 Plus: Designed for Web, App, & Database

Friday Apr 11, 2008

To see under the covers and the design of the amazing UltraSPARC T2 Plus based systems check out this great blog: http://blogs.sun.com/deniss/date/20080410. More postings to come on this great product. Remember it is delivered-system-performance that is key. A couple of warnings about the results of others:

• Check the prices for the configs as benchmarked (especially watch up out for entry level pricing as realistic configs on competitors can cost 2x to 10x more when configured with the fastest processors and full fast memory)
• Watch out for performance per widget metrics. Some things you can see (servers) some things you can't see (cores). Especially as some cores are extremely expensive and this totally throws of any advantage of per-core performance.
• Watch for benchmarks that aren't published (I'm still waiting for IBM p570 4-core & 8-core stream performance or LMbench.
• Watch out for 1.xGhz published on one benchmark and 2.xGHz published for performance.

Dual Chip World Record, SPEC OMP2001: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Thursday Apr 10, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivers the best performance on the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark for two chips. These results were run on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server using the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor running at 1.4 GHz.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat all dual chip scores running SPECompM2001 with a score of 25488.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat all dual chip scores running SPECompM_base2001 with a score of 21145.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server running at 1.4 GHz beat the best IBM dual chip result (POWER6) by 25% on the SPECompM2001 benchmark.

SPEComp2001 Performance Chart - SPECompM2001 (bigger is better)

Select 2 chip or less results ordered by peak metric.

Result		Chips	Cores	OpenMP Thrds	System
Peak	Base
25488	21145	2	8	128	Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240, UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 1.4GHz
20443	18950	2	4	8	IBM p 520, POWER6, 4.2 GHz
19983	15355	2	4	8	IBM p5 550, POWER5+, 2.1 GHz
19688	17980	2	4	8	IBM JS22, POWER6, 4.0 GHz
19568	18218	2	4	8	IBM JS22, POWER6, 4.0 GHz
16208	14399	1	8	63	Sun SE T5120/T5220, US T2, 1.4 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

Goals of suite:

• 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:

SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC. Other results from www.spec.org as of 4/6/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2 chips, 16 cores, 128 threads, 1.4GHz) 25488 SPECompM2001.

SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC. Other results from www.spec.org as of 4/6/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2 chips, 16 cores, 128 threads, 1.4GHz) 21145 SPECompM_base2001.

SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC. Other results from www.spec.org as of 4/6/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2 chips, 16 cores, 128 threads, 1.4GHz) 25294 SPECompM2001. IBM p 520 (2 chips, 4 cores, 8 threads, 4.2GHz) 20443 SPECompM2001.

Results Summary

Result
	Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240:		25488 SPECompM2001
			21145 SPECompM_base2001
Reference Date:			Apr 09, 2008
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Compiler:			Sun Studio 12

2-chip SPEC CPU2006 Rate World Records: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Thursday Apr 10, 2008

Sun has announced two-chip world record results for SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006. These results were run on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server which uses the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor running at 1.4 GHz.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "peak" result of 157 on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "base" result of 142 on the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark.

A 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat the 2-chip IBM 4.7GHz POWER6 based p 570 by 29% on the SPECint_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivers 1.9X the throughput performance of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as measured by SPECint_rate2006 in the same amount of space.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "peak" result of 119 on the SPECfp_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, powered by two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a World Record 2-chip "base" result of 111 on the SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmark.

A 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, running the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor at 1.4 GHz, beat the 2-chip IBM 4.7GHz POWER6 based p 570 by 3% on the SPECfp_rate2006 benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivers 1.9X the throughput performance of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as measured by SPECfp_rate2006 in the same amount of space.

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected recent results.

SPECint_rate2006

Please see www.spec.org for complete results

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun SE T5240	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.4	2	16	128	157	142
Supermicro X7DWA-N	Xeon X5482	3.2	2	8	8	147	121
SGI Altix XE 250	Xeon X5472	3.0	2	8	8	143	119
HP DL160 G5	Xeon X5472	3.0	2	8	8	140	115
IBM p 570	Power6	4.7	2	4	8	122	108

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

SPECfp_rate2006

Please see www.spec.org for complete results

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
Sun SE T5240	UltraSPARC T2 Plus	1.4	2	16	128	119	111
IBM p 570	POWER6	4.7	2	4	8	116	98.8
IBM i 570	POWER6	4.7	2	4	8	115	102
HP BL685c G5	Opteron 8356	2.3	2	8	8	89.8	82.0
HP DL385 G5	Opteron 2356	2.3	2	8	8	89.3	81.1

Results as of 7 Apr 2008 from www.spec.org.

Benchmark Description

SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.

Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.

The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006, 142 SPECint_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006; IBM p 570 (POWER6, 2 chips, 4 cores), 122 SPECint_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 157 SPECint_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 83.2 SPECint_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006, 111 SPECfp_rate_base2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006; IBM p 570 (POWER6, 2 chips, 4 cores), 116 SPECfp_rate2006.

SPEC, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 4/7/08. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), 119 SPECfp_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006.

Results Summary

Results
Reference Date:			Apr 9, 2008
System:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Processor:			Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 1.4 GHz
			157 SPECint_rate2006
			142 SPECint_rate_base2006
			119 SPECfp_rate2006
			111 SPECfp_rate_base2006
Software:			Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler

Lotus Domino R6iNotes World Record: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

...at least one more world record writeup from me today, its getting late on this busy day. so without further adieu...

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, equipped with 2 Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips (8cores/chip @1.2GHz, 8 threads/core), using Lotus Domino 7.0.1 mail server delivered the overall World Record  Performance, 2nd. best Price/performance (it is beaten slightly by another Sun result ) and best power-performance for the Lotus[R] R6iNotes on Domino mail server benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, equipped with 2 UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors with max 128 threads of execution achieved the overall World Record performance of 65000 R6iNotes users using the Lotus Domino 7.0.1 Messaging Server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with 2 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus achieved 18% more performance and 42% better price/performance than the 4-chip IBM p560Q 1.8GHz dual-core POWER5+ server.

The Sun Enterprise T5240 R6iNotes has the best price/performance than all other competitor's systems, including IBM and HP, for the R6iNotes benchmark.

The Sun Enterprise T5240 has 2.6X better power-performance and 10.6X better SWAP than IBM POWER5+ IBMp560Q.

The 4RU IBM p550Q Power5+ used 2X times the space of the 2RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 system.

The 8RU IBM p560Q Power5+ used 4X times the space of the 2RU Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 system.

The SWaP metric is a measure of Server effeciency ratio that includes System performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark (SWaP = Performance/[Space(RU)xWatts])

power-performance is computed as Watts/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator

Lotus Domino 7.0.1 NotesBench R6iNotes Performance Chart (in increasing $/User order)

Users = number of users supported (bigger is better)
NotesMark = the benchmark metric (bigger is better)
$/User = cost per user (smaller is better)

System	Chip GHz	Cores/ Chip	OS	USERS	N-MARK	#Dom Part	AvRT	$/User
Sun T5240	2xUS T2 Plus 1.2	8	Sol10	65000	55101	6	224ms	$2.84
IBM-P5 560Q	2xPOWER5+ 1.8	4	AIXL	55000	46103	6	848ms	$4.89
Sun T5220	1x US T2 1.4	8	Sol10	43000	36240	6	584ms	$2.89
Sun V890	8x USIV+ 2.1	2	Sol10	40000	33862	4	324ms	$7.19
HP BL 480c	2x Xeon 2.6	4	Win 2003	27000	23117	3	517ms	$13.27
HP BL 685c	2x Opt 8222 2.6	4	Win 2003	26000	22329	3	612ms	$14.20
IBM-P5 550Q	2x POWER5 1.5	4	AIXL	24000	20108	4	932ms	$5.97
Sun T2000	1x US T1 1.4	8	Sol10	23200	19518	4	692ms	$4.48
IBM X3650	2x Xeon 3.8	2	Linux	22000	17777	4	3056ms	$3.47
Sun T2000	1xUS T1 1.2	8	Sol10	19000	16061	4	400ms	$3.94
HP Pro DL580	4x Xeon 3.0	2	Win 2003	18500	15953	4	434ms	$4.15
HP BL465c	2x Opt 2222 3.0	2	Win 2003	17500	15092	2	337ms	$16.30
Sun X4200	2X Opt 254 2.8	2	Linux	17000	14347	4	496ms	$2.66

Complete benchmark results may be found at the Lotus NotesBench website http://www.notesbench.org.

Benchmark Description

The benchmark simulates active users accessing their Domino[R] R6iNotes mail files via standard Web browser. Each simulated user periodically sends, retrieves, and deletes a specified number of e-mail messages from a browser. An average user runs this script four times per hour.

The R5iNotes and R6iNotes workloads, using the Lotus Domino Mail server (R5 or R6) are both HTTP based workloads. R6iNotes is heavier with added features and larger mail files using the MIME format.

The Lotus Webmail and iNotes workloads are NOT comparable.

Disclosure Statement:

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2chip, 8cores/chip@1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 8threads/core, 128GB, 6 partitions, Solaris[TM] 10 , Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 65000 users, $2.84per user, 55101 NotesMark tpm, 224ms avg rt. , IBM eServer 550Q, 8x1.5GHz POWER5, 32GB, 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 24000 users, $5.97 per user, 20108 NotesMark tpm, 932 ms avg rt., IBM eServer 560Q, 8x1.8GHz POWER5+, 64GB, 6 partitions, AIX5L V5.3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 55000 users, $4.89 per user, 46193 NotesMark tpm, 848ms avg rt. More info: www.notesbench.org

IBM p5 550Q power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the maximum Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted at ftp:/ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server Power consumption has been measured during the full benchmark execution.

Results Summary

Audited Results
	Users:		65000
	NotesMark:		55101
	Price Performance:		$2.84 $/User
	Price Performance:		$3.35 $ /NotesMark
	Response:		224 ms
Systems:			One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Number Processors:			2 chips, 8cores/chip@1.2GHz, 8 threads/core
Speed of Processors:			1200 MHz
Storage:			6xSTK2540(12x143GB), 8xSTK2501 (12x143GB)
Notes Version:			Lotus Domino 7.0.1
	#Domino Partition		6
Operating System:			Solaris 10
Cost:			$184,554.00
Other Performance Metrics
	Users/CPU:		65000
	Users/Core		4062

SPECjAppServer2004 World Record Single Application Server: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivered a World Record single server result of 3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. This result used one Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (two UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4GHz chips) for the application server and a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4GHz chips) for the database server.

This benchmark used the Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. This benchmark result proves that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server using the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor performs as an oustanding J2EE application server as well as an Oracle 10G OLTP database server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server in the application tier consumed an average of 720 Watts in a 2RU space during the execution of this benchmark. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server in the database tier consumed an average of 670 Watts in a 2RU space during the execution of this benchmark.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 62% better performance over the HP BL460c blade result of 2056.27 JOPS@Standard which used two 3.1 Ghz Xeon X5460 chips.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM p570 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 4.7Ghz IBM POWER6 chips.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier performed within 8% of the Dell result of 3593.58 JOPS@Standard which used two Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers with a total of four 2.8 Ghz Xeon E5440 chips. The two Dell PE1950 servers requires 2RU of rack space and consumes on average 938 Watts of power. One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 21% better SWaP and 18% better power-performance than two Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers combined.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 3.8X better performance than the HP rx2660 result of 874.17 JOPS@Standard which used two 1.6 Ghz Itanium 2 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 2.8X better SWaP and 2.9X better power-performance than the HP rx2660 server.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 5.1X better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 2900 result of 652.95 JOPS@Standard which used two 3.0 Xeon X5160 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 5.7X better SWaP and 2.4X better power-performance than the Dell PowerEdge 2900.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM Power6 570 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 4.7 Ghz IBM POWER6 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 7.6X better SWaP and 3.9X better power-performance than the IBM Power6 570.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier performed within 8% of the result of 3593.58 JOPS@Standard using the Dell PowerEdge R900 equipped with four 2.9 Ghz Xeon X7350 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 3.1X better SWaP and 50% better power-performance than the Dell R900.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier demonstrated 5.1X better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 2900 result of 652.95 JOPS@Standard which uses two 3.0 GHz Xeon X5160 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 5.7X better SWaP and 2.4X better power-performance than the Dell PowerEdge 2900.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM p5 550 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 6.3X better SWaP and 3.2X better power-performance than the IBM Power5 550.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart as of 04/09/2008. Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org. SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better)

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server
Sun	3331.31	1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 16 cores, 2 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Plus Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3.2	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 16 cores, 2 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Plus Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
HP	2056.27	1x BL460c 8 cores, 2 chips @ 3.1 Xeon X5460 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1x BL480c 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.8 Xeon E5440 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
Sun	2000.92	1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T2 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
Rackable	1672.64	1x Rackable C2002 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 Xeon X5355 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1x Rackable S3118 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.33 Xeon E5345 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.2
IBM	1197.51	1 x IBM p570 4 cores, 2 chips @ 4.7 GHz IBM POWER6 IBM WebSphere 6.1	1 x IBM p550 4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ IBM DB2 v9.1
HP	874.17	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.2
Sybase	652.95	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 Sybase EAS 6.0.2	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 SQLAnywhere 10.0.1
Dell	3593.58	2 x Dell PowerEdge 1950 16 cores, 4 chips @ 2.8 GHz Xeon E5440 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1 x Dell PowerEdge R900 16 cores, 4 chips @ 2.9 GHz Xeon X7350 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.2

Benchmark Description

SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server) is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is an end-to-end application which exercises all major J2EE technologies implemented by compliant application servers as follows:

• The web container, including servlets and JSPs
• The EJB container
• EJB2.0 Container Managed Persistence
• JMS and Message Driven Beans
• Transaction management
• Database connectivity

Moreover, SPECjAppServer2004 also heavily exercises all parts of the underlying infrastructure that make up the application environment, including hardware, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers, and the system network. The primary metric of the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark is jAppServer Operations Per Second (JOPS) which is calculated by adding the metrics of the Dealership Management Application in the Dealer Domain and the Manufacturing Application in the Manufacturing Domain. There is NO price/performance metric in this benchmark.

Disclosure Statement:

SPECjAppServer2004
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (16 cores, 2 chip) 3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
IBM p570(4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
IBM p550(4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
HP BL460c (8 cores, 2 chips) 2056.27 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) 652.95 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE 1950 (16 cores, 4 chips) 3593.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE R900 (4 cores, 4 chips) 3593.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 04/09/2008.

Power References:

Dell 1950 power rating estimated by applying 70% to the PSU rating reported 03/10/08 for each server:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r900?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of max input power reported 07/17/07:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12698_div/12698_div.HTML#Technical%20Specifications
Dell power rating 08/24/07 from Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/config_calculator?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU
IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF
Dell R900 power estimated by applying 70% to the PSU rating, reported 03/10/08 at
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r900?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
IBM p5 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the power numbers published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 3/10/06, posted at
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html

Results Summary

Certified Results			3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			Apr 9, 2008
Systems:			2 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Total Number Processors:			2,2
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Software:			Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3.2 - Java Edition
			Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3
JVM:			J2SE 6.0 update 6p

SAP-SD 2-Tier ECC 6.0 2-processor world record: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors set a new World Record for two processor systems achieving 4170 SD benchmark users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.

This benchmark was run with Oracle 10g. Oracle 10g performed very well on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors is the first two processor system to exceed 20,000 SAPS.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors showed a 1.9x improvement compared to Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 with a single 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor. The UltraSPARC T2 Plus has twice the thread count of the UltraSPARC T1.

Note:SAP does not allow vendors to make any public SWaP or price-performance comparisons to be made. The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (2RU) with a 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor outperformed the 8-core IBM System p570 (8 RU) with four 4.7 GHz POWER6 dual-core processors by 4%.

The Solaris Operating System, used in this benchmark, clearly demonstrates that the system can support over four thousand concurrent users accessing the SAP application server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors outperformed the HP DL580 with four 2.93 GHz Xeon quad-core processors by 13%.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors outperformed all other 1-chip and 2-chip systems.

SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order),all results in table are BM rev. 6.0

Benchmark Users (bigger is better)

System	SAP Users	# CPU, GHz	Mem	OS	DB	LI/Hr	SAPS	Date
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240	4170	2 UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4	128 GB	Solaris 10	Oracle 10g	418,000	20,900	09-Apr-08
IBM p 570	4010	4 POWER6 4.7	64 GB	AIX 5L Version 5.3	Oracle 10g	402,330	20,120	21-May-07
HP ProLiant DL580 G5	3705	4 Quad-Core Xeon 2.93	64 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	370,670	18,530	03-Sep-07
IBM p 550	3104	4 POWER6 4.2	64 GB	Redhat Enter- prise Linux 5	DB2 9.5	312,670	15,630	29-Jan-08
Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S4	2335	2 QC Xeon 3.16	32 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	237,000	11,850	30-Nov-07
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120	2175	1 UltraSPARC T21.4	64 GB	Solaris 10	Oracle 10g	219,000	10,950	09-Oct-07
HP ProLiant DL385 G5	2102	2 QC Opteron 2.3	32 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	210,330	10,520	28-Mar-08
HP ProLiant BL460c	2080	2 Xeon 3.0	32 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	208,000	10,400	03-Sep-07
HP ProLiant DL380 G5	2080	2 Xeon 3.0	32 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	208,670	10,430	03-Sep-07
IBM p 570	2035	2 POWER6 4.7	32 GB	AIX 5L Version 5.3	Oracle 10g	203,670	10,180	21-May-07
Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S4	1475	2 DC Xeon 3.33	32 GB	Windows Server 2003 EE	SQL Server 2005	147,670	7,380	07-Dec-07

Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.

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 a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.

Disclosure Statement:

Two-tier SAP Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise Model T5240, 2 processors / 16 cores / 128 threads, UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 1.4 GHz, 8 KB(D) + 16 KB(I) L1 cache per core, 4 MB L2 cache per processor, 128 GB main memory; Number of benchmark users & comp.: 4,170 SD (Sales & Distribution); Average dialog response time: 1.97 seconds; Throughput: Fully Processed Order Line items/hour: 418,000, Dialog steps/hour: 1,254,000; SAPS: 20,900; Average DB request time (dia/upd): 0.085 sec / 0.238 sec; CPU utilization of central server: 99%; Operating System central server: Solaris 10; RDBMS: Oracle 10g; SAP ECC Release: 6.0. The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at the following Web page: www.sap.com/benchmark. SPARC Enterprise Model T5120 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 64 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, 64GB memory, 2175 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2007059, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; SPARC Enterprise Model T2000 | Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1, 64GB memory, 1100 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2007051, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; IBM System p 570 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 4.7 GHz POWER6, 64GB memory, 4010 SD Benchmark users, 1.96s avg resp time, Cert#2007038, Oracle 10g, AIX 5L Version 5.3; IBM System p 550 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 4.2 GHz POWER6, 64GB memory, 3104 SD Benchmark users, 1.91s avg resp time, Cert#2008002, DB2 9.5, Redhat Enterprise Linux 5; IBM System p 570 (2-way, 2 processors, 4 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 4.7 GHz POWER6, 32GB memory, 2035 SD Benchmark users, 1.99s avg resp time, Cert#2007037, Oracle 10g, AIX 5L Version 5.3; HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (4-way, 4 processors, 16 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 2.93 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 64GB memory, 3705 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.99 sec avg response time, Cert#2007056, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP ProLiant BL460c (2-way, 2 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.99 sec avg response time, Cert#2007054, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (2-way, 2 processors, 4 cores, 4 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.95 sec avg response time, Cert#2007057, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP Integrity rx6600 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium, 48GB memory, 2150 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.97 sec avg response time, Cert#2006083, Oracle 10g, HP-UX 11iV3;

SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark.

Results Summary

Certified Results
	Performance:		4170 benchmark users
	Server:		Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
	Processors:		2 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus
	Memory:		128 GB
	Operating system:		Solaris 10
	Database S/W:		Oracle 10g
	SAP S/W:		SAP ECC 6.0
	Storage:		1 x Sun StorEdge(tm) SE6120 FC Array Rack Mounted

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 World Record SPECjbb2005 multi-JVM 2-chip performance

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 with two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors obtained the best multi-JVM 2-chip results on the SPECjbb2005 server-side Java benchmark.

A Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors at 1.4GHz, delivered a World Record 2-chip result of 373,405 SPECjbb2005 bops, 23338 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 consumed an average of 770 Watts of power to obtain this result.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 11% better performance over the IBM p550 result of 333,779 SPECjbb2005 bops, 83445 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses four 4.2GHz POWER6 chips. The Sun T5240 server has 3.25X better SWaP and 50% better power-performance than the IBM p550.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 23% better performance over the Dell 2950 result of 303,130 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75783 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses two 3.1GHz Intel Xeon X5460 chips. The Sun T5240 server has similar power-performance compared to the Dell 2950.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 2.4X better performance over the HP rx6600 result of 158,174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses four 1.6 GHz Intel Itanium 2 chips. The Sun T5240 server has 12.5X better SWaP and 3.5X power-performance than the HP rx6600.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 4.6X better performance over the HP rx2660 result of 80,884 SPECjbb2005 bops, 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses two 1.6GHz Intel Itanium 2 chips. The Sun T5240 server has 3.4X better SWaP and 3.5X power-performance than the HP rx2660.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 2.1X better performance over the IBM p570 result of 175,474 SPECjbb2005 bops, 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses two 4.7GHz POWER6 chips. The T5240 server has 5.7X better SWaP and 3X power-performance than the IBM p570.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) demonstrated 65% better performance over the IBM p560Q result of 226,291 SPECjbb2005 bops, 28286 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which uses eight 1.5GHz POWER5+ chips. The T5240 server has 17.2X better SWaP and 4.5X power-performance than the IBM p560Q.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)

bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)

System	Date	CPUs		Performance
		Chip, Cores, Threads	GHz, CPU	bops	JVMs	bops/JVM
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240	04/08	2, 16, 128	1.4 US-T2 Plus	373405	16	23338
IBM p550	2/08	4, 8, 16	4.2 POWER6	333779	4	83445
Dell PowerEdge 2950	11/07	2, 8, 8	3.16 Xeon	303130	4	75783
IBM p550Q	2/06	8, 16, 32	1.5 POW5+	226291	8	28286
IBM p570	6/07	2, 4, 4	4.7 POWER6	175474	2	87737
HP rx6600	11/06	4, 8, 16	1.6 Itanium 2	158174	4	39544
HP rx2660	1/07	2, 4, 4	1.6 Itanium 2	80884	1	80884

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

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

Benchmark Description

SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a Java implemented application tier (server-side Java). The benchmark is based on the order processing in a wholesale supplier application. The performance of the user tier and the database tier are not measured in this test. The metrics given are number of SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance).

Disclosure Statement:

SPECjbb2005 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2 chips, 16 cores) 373405 SPECjbb2005 bops, 23338 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p550 (4 chips, 8 cores) 333779 SPECjbb2005 bops, 83445 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. Dell 2950 (2 chips, 8 cores) 303130 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75783 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. HP rx6600 (4 chips, 8 cores) 158174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. HP rx2660 (2 chips, 4 cores) 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops, 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p570 (2 chips, 4 cores) 175474 SPECjbb2005 bops, 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p560Q (8 chips, 16 cores) 226291 SPECjbb2005 bops, 28286 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Results from http://www.spec.org as of 04/09/08

Power References:

Dell 2950 power rating estimated by applying 70% to the PSU rating here:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/pe_2950_III_spec_sheet.pdf
IBM p550 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 02/05/08, posted at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/pm/br/n/psb01628usen/PSB01628USEN.PDF
HP rx6600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07:
http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/387834-0-0-225-121.html http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12596_div/12596_div.HTML#Technical%20Specifications
IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF
HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of max input power reported 07/17/07:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12698_div/12698_div.HTML#Technical%20Specifications
IBM p560Q (note used 2 x 4U systems to support 4 x QCMs) power specifications calculated by applying 80% of the Maximum Watts published in "Facts and Features Report", 03/26/07, posted at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF

Results Summary

Results
	Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240:		373405 SPECjbb2005 bops, 23338 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
	Reference Date:		Apr 9, 2008
Systems:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Total Number Processors:			2
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
JVM:			Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_06-p

but wait, there is more

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

Not only did Sun release a benchamark on the UltraSPARC T2, we also announced a new processor and a new set of new benchmarks. Sun continues to raise the bar.

Check out the press release and news sources. Sun now has an UltraSPARC T2 Plus and new systems!

The press release states:

"Today, the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are setting the pace with breakthrough performance and beating the competition in performance, price/performance and power and space utilization on business-critical and compute-intensive workloads spanning the entire enterprise – from the edge to the heart of the datacenter."