Tuesday May 08, 2007
Sun US-IV+ vs. POWER5+:
- Sun Fire E2900 with dual-core US-IV+ (24 threads) beats the the fastest
IBM POWER5+ p5 570 result (2.2 GHz 32 threads) of 326,651 bops.
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How do they compare on pricing? Well IBM doesn't seem to post pricing online for expensive products over about $500,000 or 32 threads, so I can't get the public
pricing for the IBM p570.
The only online pricing (a bit old) is from
IBM p570 TPC-C disclosure report.
IBM TPC-C result of 1,025,169 tpmC at $4.42/tpmC on a 16-core (8 processors, 32 threads) 2.2 GHz IBM System p5 570 (configuration planned to be available 05/31/06).
look carefully at the line items, just turning on the processors is expensive: "MODEL 570 PERMANENT PROCESSOR ACTIVATION FEATURE *16 = $343,040" (note: that does NOT count any memory costs or actually getting the processors any of the 48 other p570 required line items). My comments on the TPC-C benchmark.
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Also see this for IBM hardware per core pricing on the high end - wow!
The Sun Fire E2900 with 1.95GHz US-IV+ achieved 332,917 SPECjbb2005 bops and 27.743 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. The Sun Fire E2900
used Solaris 10.
SPECjbb2005 Performance (ordered by performance bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second, bigger is better)
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System
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Date
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Processors
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Performance
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(Chips, Cores, Threads)
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GHz Type
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bops
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JVMs
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bops/JVM
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Sun Fire E2900
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5/07
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12, 24, 24
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1.95 US-IV+
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332,917
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12
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27,743
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IBM p5 570
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1/06
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8, 16, 32
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2.2 POWER5+
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326,651
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8
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40,831
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Sun results have been submitted to SPEC for review and are on track for publication.
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 Fire E2900 (12 chips, 24 cores, 24 threads1.95 GHz) 332,917
SPECjbb2005 bops, 27,743 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review;
IBM eServer p5 570 (8 chips, 16 cores, 32 Threads 2.2 GHz) 326,651 SPECjbb2005 bops,
40,831 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.
SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results as of 5/8/07 on www.spec.org
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Certified Results
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Performance:
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332,917 SPECjbb2005 bops
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27,743 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
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Reference Date:
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May 8, 2007
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Systems:
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Sun Fire E2900
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Processor/GHz:
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12 US-IV+ 1.95 GHz
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Operating System:
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Solaris 10
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JVM:
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Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 6.0_02
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Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
World Record Performance on 2-node Configuration! One Sun Fire E2900 equipped with 12 UltraSPARC IV+ at 1.95GHz
running the BEA Weblogic 9.2 Application Server and one Sun Fire T2000
equipped with one UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.2 GHz running the DB2 8.2
Univeral Database achieved
1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
This SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark result is a World record for application
server performance on a single system.
The Sun Fire E2900 result is an example of J2EE Server Consolidation.
The result was obtained using 6 BEA Weblogic application server instances,
each running in a separate Solaris Container.
The Sun Fire E2900 and Sun Fire T2000 performed 7% better than the cluster
of 6x HP DL380 G4 running BEA Weblogic 9 and 1x HP rx8620 server running
Oracle 10g database.
The Sun Fire E2900 and Sun Fire T2000 performed 32% better than the cluster
of 5x IBM eServer xSeries 365 servers running IBM Websphere 6 and 2x
IBM eServer xSeries 365 running DB2 8.2 database.
This result also demonstrates the superior performance of the Sun Fire T2000
as a database server, using IBM DB2 Universal Database software.
The UltraSPARC-T1 based T2000 Sun server supports a higher
SPECjAppServer2004 workload (JOPS) than one HP rx8620 [16x 1.5 GHz
Itanium 2] using Oracle 10g or two IBM xSeries 365 [8x 3.0 GHz Intel
Xeon MP] using IBM DB2 v8.2.
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better) 04/03/2007
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SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard |
J2EE Server |
DB Server |
| Sun |
1781.37 |
1x Sun Fire E2900
24 cores, 12 chips @ 1.95 GHz US-IV+
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1x Sun Fire T2000
8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T1
IBM DB2 8.2.6 |
| HP |
1664.36 |
6x HP DL380
12 cores, 12 chips @ 3.6 GHz Xeon
BEA WebLogic 9.0 |
1x HP rx8620
16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.5 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
| IBM |
1343.47 |
5x IBM eServer xSeries 365
20 cores, 20 chips @ 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon MP
WebSphere 6.0 |
2x IBM eServer xSeries 365
8 cores, 8 chips @ 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon MP
IBM DB2 v8.2 |
| Sun |
1781.47 |
5x Sun Fire X4100
20 cores, 10 chips @ 2.4 GHz AMD 280
BEA WebLogic 9.0 |
1x Sun Fire E6900
32 cores, 16 chips @ 1.2 GHz US-IV
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
| HP |
1266.42 |
1x HP rx6600
8 cores, 4 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
BEA WebLogic 9.1 |
1x HP rx8620
16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
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
1 Sun Fire E2900 (24 cores, 12 chips) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip)
1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
6 HP DL380 (12 cores, 12 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips)
1664.36 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 IBM xSeries 365 (20 cores, 20 chips) and 2 IBM xSeries 365 (8 cores, 8 chips)
1343.47 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 HP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips)
1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 Sun Fire X4100 (20 cores, 10 chips) and 1 Sun Fire E6900 (32 cores, 16 chips)
1781.47 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 04/03/2007.
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
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1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard |
| Reference Date: |
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Apr 3, 2007 |
| Systems: |
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1 x Sun Fire E2900, 12x 1.95 GHz UltraSPARC IV+ |
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1 x Sun Fire T2000, 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 |
| # Processors: |
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12, 1 |
| Processor/GHz of Server: |
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UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz |
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UltraSPARC T1 1.2 GHz |
| Operating System: |
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Solaris 10 11/06 |
| Software: |
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BEA WebLogic 9.2 Advantage Edition |
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IBM DB2 8.2.6 Enterprise Editon |
| JVM: |
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J2SE 5.0 update 11 |
... yes more coming even tomorrow and beyond, keep checking...
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