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Whole Cup of "UltraSPARC T2" Java - Single-Chip Record

Tuesday Oct 09, 2007

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 each with the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor obtained the best multi-JVM single chip results on the SPECjbb2005 server-side Java benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers each equipped with a single UltraSPARC T2 processor at 1.4 GHz, delivered a World Record single-chip result of 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.

The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 9% better performance than the 4-core 4.7GHz IBM p570 (Power6) result of 175,474 SPECjbb2005 bops 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5220 server has 2.5x better power-performance and has 4.9x better SWaP than the IBM 4-core p570.

The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 20% better performance than the Dell PowerEdge 6950 result of 159,382 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39846 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used four 2.8GHz dual-core Opteron processors. The Sun T5220 server has 1.6x better power-performance and has 3.2x better SWaP.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 21% better performance than the 4-socket HP rx6600 (2.8 GHz Xeon DC) result of 158174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5120 server has 3x better power-performance and has 21x better SWaP than the HP rx6600.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 3x better performance over the 2-socket IBM p505Q result of 63,544 SPECjbb2005 bops, 31772 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5120 server has 2x better power-performance and has 2x better SWaP.

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.

    SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)
    bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)

    System Date Processors Performance
    (Chips, Cores, Threads) GHz CPU bops JVMs bops/JVM
    Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S3 7/07 (2, 8, 8) 3GHz Xeon QC 236416 4 59104
    Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 10/07 (1, 8, 64) 1.4GHz US T2 192055 8 24007
    Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 10/07 (1, 8, 64) 1.4GHz US T2 192055 8 24007
    IBM p570 6/07 (2, 4, 8) 4.7 GHz POWER6 175474 2 87737
    HP rx6600 11/06 (4, 8, 16) 1.6GHz Itanium2 DC 158174 4 39544
    Dell PowerEdge 6950 1/07 (4, 4, 8) 2.8GHz Opteron DC 159382 4 39846
    Dell PowerEdge 860 1/07 (1, 2, 4) 2.4GHz Xeon 112092 1 112092
    IBM p570 6/07 (1, 2, 4) 4.7GHz POWER6 88089 1 88089
    HP rx2660 1/07 (2, 4, 4) 1.6GHz Itanium2 80884 1 80884

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

    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 T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 results submitted to SPEC for review, Dell PowerEdge 860 (1 chip, 4 cores) 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops, 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Dell PowerEdge 6950 (4 chips, 8 cores) 159382 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39846 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, HP rx2660 (2 chip, 4 cores) 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops, 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, HP rx6600 (4 chips 8 cores) 158174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (1 chip, 2 cores) 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (2 chips, 4 cores) 175474 SPECjbb2005 bops, 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p505Q (2 chips, 4 cores) 63544 SPECjbb2005 bops, 31772 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX200 S3 (2 chips, 8 cores) 236416 SPECjbb2005 bops, 59104 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 10/08/2007 on www.spec.org.

    Power References: The 2-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or 4 times the rack space of a Sun T5120 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The 4-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. IBM p6 570 2-core & 4-core power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted here. The IBM p505Q POWER5+ system requires 1 RU of rack space and consumes on average 320 Watts of power. IBM p505 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 03/27/06, posted here. The HP rx2600 server requires 2 RU of rack space and consumes on average 563+ Watts of power. HP rx2600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07: Actual HP power specs here. The HP rx6600 server requires 7 RU of rack space and consumes on averge 1163 Watts of power. HP rx6600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 requires 4 RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 power consumption from here. Prices based on publicly documented list prices.

    Results Summary

    Results
    SPECjbb2005 bops: 192055
    SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM: 24007
    Reference Date: Oct 9, 2007
    Systems: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220
    Total Number Processors: 1
    Processor/GHz of Server: UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz
    Operating System: Solaris 10 8/07
    JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_04-p

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    Posted at 04:17PM Oct 09, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
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    • JavaOne: World Record Single JVM result

    Wednesday May 09, 2007

    Sun's single-JVM World Record:

    • The 72-way Sun Fire E25K with 1.8 GHz US-IV+ set a World Record with a single-instance result of 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on SPECjbb2005.
    • The Sun Fire E25K with dual-core US-IV+ 1.8GHz and running Java SE 1.6.0_02 outperformed Fujitsu PrimeQuest 580 with dual-core Itanium 2 processors and running BEA JRockit by 4%.
    • The 72-way Sun Fire E25K with 1.8 GHz US-IV+ processors set a World Record with a single-instance result of 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark, Sun has a much higher result SPECjbb2005 using multiple JVMs running on a 1.95GHz US-IV+ processor. The Sun Fire E25K with 1.95GHz US-IV+ processors set a World Record for systems with 72 or fewer chips, achieving 2,105,264 SPECjbb2005 bops and 29,240 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on SPECjbb2005.

    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
    Sun Fire E25K 5/07 72, 144, 144 1.8 US-IV+ 1,149,100 1 1,149,100
    Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 2/07 32, 64, 64 1.6 Itanium2 1,105,465 1 1,105,465
    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, 1.8 GHz) 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,149,100 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM submitted for review; Fujitsu PrimeQuest 580 (32 chips, 64 cores, 1.6 GHz) 1,105,465 SPECjbb2005 bops, 1,105,564 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. 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

    Certified Results
    Performance: 1,105,564 SPECjbb2005 bops
      1,105,564 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
    Reference Date: May 8, 2007
    Systems: Sun Fire E25K
    Processor/GHz: 72 US-IV+ 1.8 GHz
    Operating System: Solaris 10
    JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 6.0_02

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    Posted at 08:21AM May 09, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
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    Out-of-box Performance: Java6 advances

    Thursday Dec 14, 2006

    In case you missed it: "Java 6 Leads Out-of-the-Box Server Performance"

    Dave Dagastine's blog this week goes into the advances of Java 6. Java6 is Sun's fastest most-reliable release and specifically targets out-of-the-box performance. link: http://blogs.sun.com/dagastine/entry/java_6_leads_out_of

    Bottom line: It means no tuning options are needed for the JVM to achieve optimal performance. YEAH! Lots of great details in the blog.

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    Posted at 06:00AM Dec 14, 2006 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
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