Tuesday May 08, 2007
Sun leads the way, beating Itanium2 and POWER5+(by a lot):
- Sun Fire E25K with dual-core US-IV+ beats the HP Superdome with dual-core Itanium 2.
-
Sun Fire E25K is 6.4 times faster than the fastest IBM POWER5+
p5 570 result (1.9GHz 16 cores) of 326,651 bops. Note: The largest IBM p5
595 only has 4 times as many POWER5+ cores. IBM has not published this
benchmark on their largest systems. why does IBM keep avoiding comparison to Sun
on accepted standard benchmarks like SPECjbb2005?
-
Sun Fire E25K 1.95GHz US-IV+ also beats the Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 2.08GHz SPARC64 V
by 67%.
The Sun Fire E25K with 1.95GHz US-IV+ set a World Record for
systems with 72 or fewer chips, achieving 2,105,264 SPECjbb2005 bops and 29,240
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
The 6.0_02 version of the Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server VM showed a 27%
improvement of the 6.0 version on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. The Sun Fire E25K result used Solaris 10.
SPECjbb2005 Performance (ordered by performance bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second, bigger is better)
|
System
|
Date
|
Processors
|
Performance
|
|
(Chips, Cores, Threads)
|
GHz Type
|
bops
|
JVMs
|
bops/JVM
|
|
Sun Fire E25K
|
5/07
|
72, 144, 144
|
1.95 US-IV+
|
2,105,264
|
72
|
29,240
|
|
HP Superdome
|
9/06
|
64, 128, 128
|
1.6 Itanium 2
|
2,054,864
|
32
|
64,215
|
|
Fujitsu PP2500
|
3/06
|
128, 128, 128
|
2.08 SPARC64 V
|
1,251,024
|
32
|
39,095
|
|
IBM p5 570
|
1/06
|
8, 16, 32
|
2.2 POWER5+
|
326,651
|
8
|
40,831
|
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 E25K (72 chips, 144 cores, 1.95 GHz) 2,105,264
SPECjbb2005 bops, 29,240 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review;
Sun Fire E25K (72 chips, 144 cores, 1.95 GHz) 1,657,274
SPECjbb2005 bops, 23,018 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM;
HP Itanium Superdome (64 chips, 128 cores, 1.6 GHz) 2,054,864
SPECjbb2005 bops, 64,215 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM;
Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 (128 chips, 128 cores, 2.08 Ghz) 1,251,024 SPECjbb2005 bops,
39,095 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM;
IBM eServer p5 570 (8 chips, 16 cores, 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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2,105,264 SPECjbb2005 bops
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|
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29,240 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 E25K
|
|
|
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Processor/GHz:
|
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72 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 17, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 outperforms the best published single
system from IBM p5 595 (1.9GHz POWER5) by over 2X on the Linpack
benchmark (Highly Parallel Computing). The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 also tops the high-end single-system Itanium 2 based system from HP (Superdome, 1.6GHz/24MB) by 38% on the Linpack.
Of the 3 vendors Sun, IBM and HP, only Sun can deliver over a TFLOP/s
of performance in a single system on the Linpack HPC benchmark.
(IBM, POWER5-based systems).
This benchmark also used the Sun Performance Library which as many routines
important to scientific users. This library has been enhanced to take advantage of the
SPARC64 VI architecture.
LINPACK HPC Performance - GFLOPS (bigger is better)
| System |
GFLOPS |
Processors |
| Total |
Peak |
Threads |
CPUs |
Type |
GHz |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 |
1032.0 |
1228.8 |
128 |
64 |
SPARC64 VI |
2.4 |
| HP Superdome |
745.5 |
819.2 |
128 |
64 |
Itanium 2 |
1.6 |
| IBM p5 595 |
418.0 |
486.4 |
64 |
32 |
POWER5+ |
1.9 |
Benchmark Description
The Linpack benchmark suite measures the performance for factoring
and solving a dense set of linear equations in double-precision
floating-point.
The Linpack HPC benchmark allows the solution of any size
matrix with a single right hand side. It was developed to allow vendors
to show off their hardware. Because big problems allow for peak
performance potentials, the benchmark is seen as an upper bound of
potential performance of a machine. The run rules are much more
flexible. The solution technique must use a pivoting scheme and the
driver must follow the spirit of the Linpack 1000 or Linpack 100
benchmarks.
Disclosure Statement:
Linpack HPC, results from http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/index.html
as of 04/13/07. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64 VI @2.4, 64 chips,
128 cores), 1.032 TFLOPS. IBM p5 595 (POWER5 1.9GHz, 32 chips, 64 cores)
418.0 GFLOPS. HP Superdome (Itanium 2 1.6GHz/24MB, 64 chips, 128 cores)
745.5 GFLOPS.
System Configuration
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000
64 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI processors
1 TB memory
Solaris 10
Sun Studio 12
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
Wednesday Feb 21, 2007
OK I've found some on HP's Itanium TPC-C tuning, now to find IBM's info.
HP tired hard to get a good TPC-C but IBM must have done a lot more on TPC-C.
...and this is after IBM did a lot to tune SPECint_rate2000 for Power5+. This covered in http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/judging_by_the_wrong_things.
But clearly HP did a lot on TPC-C, though it seems like you really need to
do a lot at a low level to get good database performance for Itanium2.
Also I'm not buying the comment that Itanium2 was beaten by IBM because the
CPU was not the bottleneck -- HP did lots to improve CPU performance.
...some questions after reading "Squeezing performance out of Itanium":
- Do you have to have a PhD in Chip design and Compiler technology to tune your database?
- no improvement going from 400GB to a 600GB SGA... And 2x improvement going from 600GB -> 1000GB. Lots of expensive memory only pays of when you get near 1TB of memory. The latest TPC-C result by HP prices memory at more than 2.2 Million dollars?
- What about "Out of the Box" performance? -20% without profile feedback optimisation and half the performance without profile and 1TB memory.
Tuesday Feb 20, 2007
Is IBM 3.3x or 1.4x faster? - I guess it depends if you use a
over-optimised benchmark like TPC-C. As mentioned yesterday,
IBM doesn't publish on a variety of standard benchmarks like
SPECint_rate2006 or SPECjbb2005 on their high-end systems so we
have to look at the SPECint_rate2000 which is just about to be EOL'ed
and completely replaced by SPECint_rate2006.
First let's compare an IBM p5 595 (Power5+ 2.3GHz 64p, 128thread) to
a HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2 1.6 GHz 64p, 64thread, single core/CPU)
on SPECint_rate2000.
Constructing a SPECint_rate2000 ratio
1.4x = 1513/1108
we find that the IBM 595 is 1.4x faster, it makes sense because this
isn't the latest HP dual-core Itanium2. Both IBM and HP systems have
results on TPC-C U SPECint_rate2000.
OK now using TPC-C, let's compare a IBM p5 595 (Power5+ 2.3GHz 64p,
128thread) to a HP Integrity Superdome
(Itanium2 1.6 GHz 64p, 64thread, single core/CPU).
Constructing a TPC-C ratio
3.3x = 4033378/1231433
what?
comparing the same systems the IBM is 3.3x faster ?!?
Looks that TPC-C over-inflates what can be expected from IBM.
My guess is IBM over-optimised and played lots of tuning tricks
on TPC-C, correct? So is TPC-C relavent to customers if this
is the case?
...maybe that's why seven years ago Sun, upon publishing a world
record TPC-C result said:
"It's well-understood in the technical communities that TPC-C no longer
represents current customer workloads since the transaction load that
its models are made of are small, primitive and disconnected transactions.
While this model was acceptable for the workloads of the late 1980s, it
misses the mark..."
http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2000-08/sunflash.20000831.1.html
You'll also notice the Aug 2000 press release said, "Customer workloads
nowadays require a more ad hoc workload than the TPC-C specifies."
Disclosure Statements
IBM p5 595 (Power5+ 2.3GHz 64p, 128thread) 4,033,378 tpmC,
2.97 US $/tpmC, Avail 01/22/07, IBM DB2 9, IBM AIX 5L V5.3, Microsoft COM+.
HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2 1.6 GHz 64p, 64thread), 1,231,433 tpmC,
4.82 US $/tpmC, Avail 06/05/06, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edt SP1,
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Ed.(64-bit)SP1. Results as of
2/15/07, see http://www.tpc.org.
IBM System p5 595 (Power5+ 2.3GHz 64p, 128thread), 64 cores, 32 chips,
2 cores/chip (SMT on), 1513 SPECint_rate2000. HP Integrity Superdome
(Itanium2 1.6 GHz 64p, 64thread, 16 cells), 64 cores, 64 chips,
1 core/chip, 1108 SPECint_rate2000. SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from http://www.spec.org. as of 2/15/07.
World record TPC-C results referenced above was an overall performance
world record at August 31, 2000. Sun Enterprise 10000 server (Starfire)
running Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE), 156,873.03 tpmC, $48.81 price/tpmC, available February 28, 2001. A full disclosure report and executive summary are available through the TPC Web site located at
http://www.tpc.org.
Thursday Jan 11, 2007
Sun Blade X8420 is 1.9x faster than the
best Intel Woodcrest system on SPECint_rate2006 and is also 2.1x faster than the best Intel
Woodcrest on SPECfp_rate2006. The Sun Blade X8420 is also 22% faster than 4-way Itanium2 dual-core on
SPECfp_rate.
Sun Blade X8420 delivered the best result with SPECint_rate2006 score of 93.1, using Solaris 10 and Studio 11 combo. The Sun Blade X8420 also
delivered the best result of of 87.3 for the SPECfp_rate2006
benchmark for all x86 systems.
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts (bigger is better, selected recent results)
SPECint_rate2006
| System |
Processors |
Performance Results |
| Type |
GHz |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
Peak |
Base |
| Sun Blade X8420 |
AMD Opteron 8220 |
2.8 |
4 |
8 |
8 |
93.1 |
80.4 |
| Fujitsu CELSIUS R640 |
Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) |
3.0 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
50.3 |
48.8 |
| Sun Ultra 40 M2 |
AMD Opteron 2220SE |
2.8 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
48.8 |
41.9 |
| HP DL585 |
Opteron 854 |
2.8 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
46.9 |
41.4 |
| Supermicro X7DBE |
Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) |
3.0 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
--- |
45.2 |
| Sun Fire X4200 |
Opteron 285 |
2.6 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
42.8 |
37.8 |
| Fujjitsu RX220 |
Opteron 280 |
2.4 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
40.0 |
35.7 |
| Sun Fire X4200 |
Opteron 256 |
3.0 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
26.4 |
23.1 |
| HP DL585 |
Opteron 854 |
2.8 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
25.2 |
22.3 |
| Dell PrecWork 380 |
Pentium EE |
3.73 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
-- |
23.1 |
| HP DL380 G4 |
Pentium 4 |
3.8 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
-- |
20.9 |
SPECfp_rate2006
| System |
Processors |
Performance Results |
| Type |
GHz |
Chips |
Cores |
Threads |
Peak |
Base |
| Sun Blade X8420 |
AMD Opteron 8220 |
2.8 |
4 |
8 |
8 |
87.3 |
82.5 |
| HP rx6600 |
Itanium2 dual-core |
1.6 |
4 |
8 |
8 |
71.4 |
69.1 |
| HP DL585 |
Opteron 854 |
2.8 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
49.3 |
45.6 |
| FSC CELSIUS R640 |
Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest), WinXP Pro |
3.0 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
42.5 |
41.4 |
| Sun Fire X4200 |
Opteron 285 |
2.6 |
2 |
4 |
4 |
38.1 |
36.0 |
Results as of 09 Jan 2007 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.
Results from www.spec.org as of 1/9/07.
Sun Blade X8420 (AMD Opteron 8220, 4chips/8cores, Solaris 10) 93.1 SPECint_rate2006.
Sun Blade X8420 (AMD Opteron 8220, 4chips/8cores, Solaris 10) 87.3 SPECint_rate2006.
Results Summary
| Results |
|
X8420 |
|
93.1 SPECint_rate2006 |
|
X8420 |
|
87.3 SPECfp_rate2006 |
| Reference Date: |
|
Jan 09, 2007 |
| System: |
|
Sun Blade X8420, 64GB memory |
| Processors: |
|
four 2.8 GHz Opteron 8220 |
| Software: |
|
Solaris 10, Sun Studio 11 |
Tuesday Jan 09, 2007
The new 1.4GHz Sun Fire T2000 achieved 801.70 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS and
beats the HP Itanium-2 rx3600 two-node result of 618.22 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS by 29%. This is the dual-core 1.6GHz Itanium2!
The T2000 result also beats the IBM two-node result using the p5 505Q and p5 550
of 618.38 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard by 29%.
One Sun Fire T2000 server equipped with one 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1
running BEA Weblogic 9.2 Advantage Edition and one
Sun Fire T2000 equipped with a UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.0 GHz
running IBM DB2 8.2.6 delivered a result of 801.70 JOPS@Standard for
best performance of single socket servers in the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.
IBM POWER5+ and Itanium2 Dual-cores also take a lot more power and
space:
When compared to HP's rx4640 equipped with Itanium2 and running Linux, the T2000 delivers nearly 1.5X higher performance in 4x less power and half the space, delivering over 6X higher performance per watt and 12x SWaP.
The Sun Fire T2000 delivers nearly 1.3X higher performance in nearly 3x less power and half the space, resulting in nearly 3.5X higher performance per watt and 7x SWaP when compared to HP's rx3600 equipped with two of the latest dual core Itanium2 processors and running HP-UX11i.
This result highlights the performance benefits of the latest BEA Weblogic
Server 9.2 release on Sun Fire servers. It also shows the
best way to get superior performance on IBM DB2 software is to use the Sun T2000 server.
This benchmark result demonstrates that the Sun Fire T2000
running the Solaris 10 Operating system can support thousands of
concurrent users accessing Web Services applications.
SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart - JOPS@Standard
c/c = cores/chip.
| |
JOPS@
Standard |
J2EE Server |
App SW |
DB Server |
DB SW |
| Sun |
801.70 |
1 x Sun Fire T2000
1.4GHz US-T1 8 core/1 chip (8 c/c) |
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x Sun Fire T2000
1.0GHz US-T1 6 core/1 chips (6 c/c) |
IBM DB2 8.2.6 |
| IBM |
618.38 |
1 x IBM p505Q
1.65GHz POWER5+ 4 core/2 chips (2 c/c) |
IBM WebSphere 6.1 |
1 x IBM p550
2.1GHz POWER5+ 4 cores/2 chips (2 c/c) |
IBM DB2 8.2 |
| HP |
618.22 |
1 x HP rx3600
1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/2 chip (2 c/c) |
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x HP rx4640
1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c) |
Oracle 10g |
| Sun |
615.64 |
1 x Sun Fire T2000
1.2GHz US-T1 8 core/1 chip (8 c/c) |
BEA WebLogic 9.0 |
1 x Sun Fire V490
1.5GHz US-IV+ 8 core/4 chips (2 c/c) |
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
| HP |
542.17 |
1 x rx4640
1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c) |
BEA WebLogic 9.1 |
1 x rx4640
1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c) |
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
| IBM |
404.88 |
1 x p5 505
2.1GHz POWER5+ 2 cores/1 chip (2 c/c) |
IBM WebSphere V6.1 |
1 x p4 505Q
1.65GHz POWER5+ 4 core/2 chips (2 c/c) |
IBM DB2 v8.2 |
SPECjAppServer2004 Results Page
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 Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 801.70 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 IBM p5 505Q (4 cores, 2 chips) 618.38 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 HP rx4600 (4 cores, 4 chip) 542.18 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 IBM p5 505 (2 cores, 1chip) 404.88 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 HP rx3600 (4 cores, 2 chips) 618.22 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. All results from www.spec.org as of 01/09/07.
HP rx4640 server specifications 10/19/05 from http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/entry_level/rx4640/
HP rx4640 power rating of 1,303 watts taken from HP Enterprise Configurator 10/19/05 from http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/catalog-hpintegrity.asp. System configured with Redundant Power, 4 x 1.6GHz Itanium processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 0 x PCI cards and 2 x 73GB HDDs.
IBM specifications from Fact and Features report, 1/9/06: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF. IBM power is based on the reported maximum power consumption.
HP rx3600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum output power supply rating reported here on 11/14/06: http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/387834-0-0-225-121.html
Sun Fire T2000 server power consumption taken from measurements made during the benchmark run.
Certified Result in a two-system configuration:
- Certified Result: 801.70 JOPS@Standard
- Reference Date: Jan 9, 2007
Application Server:
- Sun Fire T2000:
- one 1.4 GHz 8-core UltraSPARC T1
- 64 GB memory (16x4GB)
- Solaris 10 11/06
- BEA WebLogic 9.2 Advantage Edition
- JVM J2SE 5.0 Update 10
Database Server:
- Sun Fire T2000:
- one 1.0 GHz 6-core UltraSPARC T1 processor
- 8 GB memory
- 2x Sun StorEdge SE3320 SCSI Array
- Solaris 10 6/06
- IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2.6
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Don't think sy...stems with the same number of cores cost anywhere near the same.
If this were Slashdot, I would have to say: "Imagi...