Sun V490 Beats IBM p505Q & IBM p550 on SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark
Tuesday Apr 03, 2007
4-way Sun Fire V490 with 2.1 GHz US-IV+ achieved 1340 users on the two-tier SAP SD standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.
- 4-processor Sun Fire V490 with 2.1 GHz US-IV+ beats the 4-processor IBM p5 505Q with 1.65 GHz POWER5+ by 22%.
- 4-processor Sun Fire V490 with 2.1 GHz US-IV+ beats the 4-processor IBM p5 550 with 1.9 GHz POWER5+ by 34%. (see below for cores, threads, and procs)
- Scaling from 1.8 GHz to 2.1 GHz on 4-processor Sun Fire V490 showed a 12% performance improvement compared to a 17% clock speed increase, ignoring the overhead of the new SAP R/3 version.
- 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 (Benchmark Users)
| System | OS Database |
Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release |
SAPS | SAPS/ Proc |
Certified Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire V490 4xUS-IV+ @2.1GHz 32 GB |
Solaris 10 Oracle 10g |
1340 | 2005 6.0 |
6,750 | 1,687 | 03-Apr-07 |
| Sun Fire V490 4xUS-IV+ @1.8GHz 32 GB |
Solaris 10 MaxDB 7.5 |
1200 | 2004 5.0 |
6,070 | 1,517 | 17-Aug-06 |
| IBM p5 505Q 4xPOWER5+ @1.65GHz 16 GB |
AIX 5.3 DB2 9 |
1100 | 2004 5.0 |
5,520 | 1,380 | 21-Jun-06 |
| Sun Fire V490 4xUS-IV+ @1.5GHz 32 GB |
Solaris 10 MaxDB 7.5 |
1050 | 2004 5.0 |
5,320 | 1,330 | 17-Oct-05 |
| IBM p5 550 4xPOWER5+ @1.9GHz 32 GB |
SuSE LES8 DB2 UDB 8.2.2 |
1000 | 2004 5.0 |
5,020 | 1,255 | 13-Sep-05 |
Complete benchmark results at: 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 a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark: Sun Fire V490 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4 x 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 32 GB memory, 1340 SD benchmark users, 1.91 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2007022, Oracle 10g database, Solaris 10; Sun Fire V490 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4 x 1.8 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 32 GB memory, 1200 SD benchmark users, 1.86 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2006057, MaxDB 7.5 database, Solaris 10; Sun Fire V490 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4 x 1.5 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 32 GB memory, 1050 SD benchmark users, 1.87 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2005042, MaxDB 7.5 database, Solaris 10; IBM System eServer p5 505Q (4-way, 4 processors, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4x 1.65 GHz POWER5+, 16GB mem, 1,100 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2006046, IBM DB2 Universal Database 9.1, AIX 5.3; IBM System eServer p5 550 (4-way, 4 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4x 1.9 GHz POWER5+, 32GB mem, 1,000 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2005040, IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2.2, 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: | 1,340 benchmark users | ||
| Server: | Sun Fire V490 | ||
| Processors: | 4 x 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 32MB L3 ECache each | ||
| Memory: | 32 GB | ||
| Operating system: | Solaris 10 | ||
| Database S/W: | Oracle 10g | ||
| SAP S/W: | SAP ECC 6.0 | ||
| SAP Certification: | 2007022 | ||
| Storage: | Sun StorEdge 6020 | ||
...even more results coming today
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
