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
Monday Apr 09, 2007
IBM thinks it is about the core count or performance per core. Get real.
It is about the whole system. You can do the math based on the info in the
TPC-H submissions below...
Sun: $4,207,126 /144 core = ?
IBM: $5,358,874 /64 core = ?
It is clear to see that IBM's cores each cost more than 2.5 times more than Sun's cores.
Before you get too confused with 'rotten-to-the-core-math', just remember this.
The IBM system costs more and the IBM system is a slower on the TPC-H benchmark.
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/database_world_record_sun_us.
- The Sun Fire E25K 1.8GHz outperformed the IBM p5-595 (Power5+) by 14% and also
had 31% better price/performance. Also beat the p595 by 26% on the multi-user test (Throughput).
- The Sun Fire E25K beat the HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2) by 60%
on performance and 34% on price/performance. Sun also beat the Itanium2
Superdome by 72% for the multi-user test (Throughput).
- Last week Sun announced Sun Fire E25K systems with 1.95GHz processors.
TPC-H Disclosure Statement:
Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, avail 04/09/07,
HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC 110,576.5 QohH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB avail 06/08/06,
Sun Fire E25K 105430.9 QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/23/06,
IBM eServer p5 595 100,512.3 QphH@3000GB, $53.32/QphH@3000GB, avail 03/01/06,
HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $55.79/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/18/06,
Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB, $100.66/QphH@3000GB, avail 07/27/05,
TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council
(TPC). More info www.tpc.org.
Monday Apr 09, 2007
World Record Performance and World Record Single-System
Price/Performance: The Sun Fire E25K (UltraSPARC IV+), Sun
StorEdge 6140 Arrays, and running Solaris 10 combined with Oracle
10g achieved World Record TPC-H performance of 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB
and World Record price/performance of $36.68/QphH@3000GB for non-
clustered systems.
The Sun Fire E25K had the best price/performance of the top six
performing systems.
...and remember this was done with 1.8GHz US-IV+, last week Sun announced
1.95GHz and 2.1GHz, see previous blog postings for results on those
processors. The future holds more interesting postings, keep checking
back...
- The Sun Fire E25K outperformed the IBM p5-595 (Power5+) by 14% and also
had 31% better price/performance. Also beat the p595 by 26% on the multi-user test (Throughput).
- The Sun Fire E25K beat the HP Integrity Superdome (Itanium2) by 60%
on performance and 34% on price/performance. Sun also beat the Itanic
Superdome by 72% for the multi-user test (Throughput).
- The Sun Fire E25K configured with Sun StorEdge 6140 arrays delivered
huge IO performance of over 21 GB/sec which is made possible by a
delivered Memory Bandwidth of 62 GB/sec.
- The TPC-H result demonstrates that the Sun Fire E25K can handle the
increasingly large databases required of DSS systems. The Sun Fire E25K
delivered more than 18 GB/sec of real delivered IO throughput with Oracle 10g.
- This result demonstrates effectiveness of Solaris 10 running Oracle 10g.
Oracle has chosen Solaris 10 as its preferred Open Source 64-bit Development
and Deployment environment. There was hardly any OS tuning needed. The /etc/system and /etc/project file has a basic set of parameters for a large system.
TPC-H @3000GB Performance Chart (QphH = the Composite Metric, bigger is better)
$/QphH = Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QppH = Power Numerical Quantity
QthH = Throughput Numerical Quantity
| System |
Composite
(QphH) |
3 Year Total
System Cost |
$/perf
($/QphH) |
Power
(QppH) |
Thruput
(QthH) |
#Proc |
Disk
GB |
| Sun Fire E25K |
114,713.7 |
$4,207,126 |
$36.68 |
136,798.4 |
96,194.3 |
72 |
63.3 TB |
| HP Proliant BL25p |
110,576.5 |
$4,179,238 |
$37.80 |
116,379.3 |
105,063.0 |
64 |
69.6 TB |
| Sun Fire E25K |
105,430.9 |
$5,784,902 |
$54.87 |
121,805.8 |
91,257.4 |
72 |
94.8 TB |
| IBM p5 595 |
100,512.3 |
$5,358,874 |
$53.32 |
132,598.2 |
76,190.5 |
64 |
37.7 TB |
| HP Integrity Superdome |
71,847.8 |
$4,008,065 |
$55.79 |
92,335.6 |
55,905.9 |
64 |
40.6 TB |
| Sun Fire E25K |
59,435.7 |
$5,982,737 |
$100.66 |
73,686.8 |
59,435.7 |
72 |
84.4 TB |
| IBM xSeries 346 |
54,465.9 |
$1,761,686 |
$32.34 |
90,854.7 |
32,651.4 |
64 |
25.6 TB |
| HP Integrity Superdome |
30,956.6 |
$2,326,457 |
$75.16 |
41,779.5 |
22,937.4 |
32 |
19.6 TB |
| System |
Procs |
Cluster |
Proc
GHz |
Proc Type |
OS |
Database |
RDBMS+HW
Avail |
| Sun Fire E25K |
72 |
N |
1.8 |
UltraSPARC IV+ |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
04/09/2007 |
| HP ProLiant BL25p |
64 |
Y |
2.6 |
AMD Opteron 285 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 |
Oracle 10g |
06/08/2006 |
| Sun Fire E25K |
72 |
N |
1.5 |
UltraSPARC IV+ |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
01/27/2006 |
| IBM p5 595 |
64 |
N |
1.9 |
POWER 5 |
AIX 5L V5.3 |
Oracle 10g |
03/01/2006 |
| HP Integrity Superdome |
64 |
N |
1.6 |
Itanium2 |
HP-UX 11.i V2 |
Oracle 10g |
01/18/2006 |
| Sun Fire E25K |
72 |
N |
1.2 |
UltraSPARC IV |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
07/27/2005 |
| IBM xSeries 346 |
64 |
Y |
3.6 |
Intel Xeon |
Suse Linux |
DB2 UDB 8.2 |
08/15/2005 |
| HP Integrity Superdome |
32 |
N |
1.6 |
Itanium2 |
Windows Server 2003 |
Microsoft SQL Server |
05/05/2006 |
Benchmark Description
The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the
Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data
Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are
produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS
systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard
database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and
comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB,
1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.
TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark
that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision
support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity
that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse.
TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database
manager on a specific computer system.
The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H
Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the
number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is
intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in
both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of
price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus
3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency,
which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale
factor.
Disclosure Statement:
Sun Fire E25K 114,713.7 QphH@3000GB, $36.68/QphH@3000GB, avail 04/09/07,
HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p cluster 64p DC 110,576.5 QohH@3000GB, $37.80/QphH@3000GB avail 06/08/06,
Sun Fire E25K 105430.9 QphH@3000GB, $54.87/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/23/06,
IBM eServer p5 595 100,512.3 QphH@3000GB, $53.32/QphH@3000GB, avail 03/01/06,
HP Integrity Superdome 71,847.8 QphH@3000GB, $55.79/QphH@3000GB, avail 01/18/06,
Sun Fire E25K 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB, $100.66/QphH@3000GB, avail 07/27/05,
TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council
(TPC). More info www.tpc.org.
See Also:
Oracle Press Release (oracle.com)
Oracle Press Release (yahoo.com)
Ideas International Benchmark page
Result details
| Audited Results |
| |
DB Size: |
3000 GB (Scale Factor 3000) |
| |
Composite: |
114,713.7 QphH@3000GB |
| |
$/perf: |
$36.68/QphH@3000GB |
| |
Available: |
April 9, 2007 |
| System: |
One Sun Fire E25K |
| Processors: |
72 UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz / 2MB L2 Cache, 32 MB L3 Cache |
| Storage: |
63.3 Terabytes of disk |
| Database: |
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 2 with Partitioning & Automatic Storage Management |
| OS: |
Solaris 10 Update 3 |
| Total 3 year Cost: |
$4,207,126 |
| Other Metrics |
| |
TPC-H Power: |
136,798.4 |
| |
Throughput: |
96,194.3 |
| |
DB Load Time: |
4 hours 52 minutes |
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
Thursday Feb 15, 2007
IBM POWER6 info in a CNET article.
The say, "The first Power6 systems, lower-end models, are due to arrive midway through 2007."
So in the mean time will IBM start publishing the benchmarks they've avoided on
IBM p5 595 POWER5+ any time soon? Or is it just too embarrassing to show SPECjbb2005, SPECint_rate2006, etc. results compared to Sun 1.8GHz US-IV+ systems?
when do the high-end power6 systems start to show? ...late 2007 or 2008?
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...