Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Best 1 processor, two SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark. This benchmark shows that the UltraSPARC T2 is well-suited as an Oracle 10G OLTP database server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server with a single 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC
T2 processor set a new World Record for single processor systems
achieving 2175 SD benchmark users on the two-tier SAP Sales and
Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
outperformed the 4-core IBM System p570 (4.7 GHz POWER6) by 7%.
The 4RU IBM p570 POWER6 is 4 times larger than the 1RU Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5120 system.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
is the first single processor to exceed 10,000 SAPS.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
outperformed the HP BL460C with two 3 GHz Xeon quad-core processors
by 5%.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
outperformed the HP DL380 G5 with two 3.0 GHz Xeon quad-core processors
by 5%.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
outperformed the HP rx6600 with four 1.6 GHz Itanium dual-core processors.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
outperformed all 1-chip and 2-chip systems.
SAP wants customers to comput their own perf/watt or 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 ] )
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server (1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
showed a 2x improvement compared to Sun SPARC Enterprise T2000 (1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1). The UltraSPARC T2 has twice the thread
count of the UltraSPARC T1.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (bigger is better, sorted by perf)
| System |
Users |
# Type GHz |
GB |
OS |
DB |
LI/Hr |
SAPS |
BM rev. |
Date |
| Sun T5120 |
2175 |
1 US T2 1.4GHz |
64 GB |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
219,000 |
10,950 |
6.0 |
09-Oct-07 |
| HP Integrity rx6600 |
2150 |
4 Itan2 1.6GHz |
48 GB |
HP-UX 11iV3 |
Oracle 10g |
215,670 |
10,780 |
6.0 |
27-Nov-06 |
| HP ProLiant BL685c |
2100 |
4 Opt 3GHz |
32 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
SQL 2005 |
210,670 |
10,530 |
6.0 |
03-Sep-07 |
| HP ProLiant DL460c |
2080 |
2 Xeon 3GHz |
32 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
SQL 2005 |
208,000 |
10,400 |
6.0 |
03-Sep-07 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G5 |
2080 |
2 Xeon 3GHz |
32 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
SQL 2005 |
208,670 |
10,430 |
6.0 |
03-Sep-07 |
| IBM p 570 |
2035 |
4-core POWER6 4.7GHz |
32 GB |
AIX 5L 5.3 |
Oracle 10g |
203,670 |
10,180 |
6.0 |
21-May-07 |
| Fujitsu BX620 S4 |
1940 |
2 Xeon 3GHz |
32 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
SQL 2005 |
194,000 |
9,700 |
6.0 |
13-Aug-07 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1100 |
1 US T1 1.4GHz |
64 GB |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
110,670 |
5,530 |
6.0 |
22-Aug-07 |
| HP Integrity rx2660 |
1090 |
2 Itan2 1.6GHz |
32 GB |
HP-UX 11iV3 |
DB2 9 |
109,670 |
5,480 |
6.0 |
20-Mar-07 |
| HP ProLiant DL365 |
1083 |
2 Opt 2.8GHz |
32 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
SQL 2005 |
108,670 |
5,430 |
6.0 |
09-Feb-07 |
| Fujitsu BFi20 S2 |
1020 |
2 Xeon 3GHz |
16 GB |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
102,330 |
5,120 |
6.0
Uni
code |
04-May-07 |
| IBM x3250 |
850 |
1 Xeon 2.13GHz |
8 GB |
Windows 2003 EE |
DB2 9 |
88,000 |
4,400 |
6.0 |
11-May-07 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark.
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 competetive
systems on the various SAP products.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise Model T5120 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 64 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, 64GB memory, 2175 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2007059, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; SPARC Enterprise Model T2000 | Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1, 64GB memory, 1100 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2007051, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; HP ProLiant BL460c (2-way, 2 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.99 sec avg response time, Cert#2007054, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (2-way, 2 processors, 4 cores, 4 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.95 sec avg response time, Cert#2007057, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP Integrity rx6600 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium, 48GB memory, 2150 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.97 sec avg response time, Cert#2006083, Oracle 10g, HP-UX 11iV3; IBM System p 570 (2-way, 2 processors, 4 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 4.7 GHz POWER6+, 32GB memory, 2035 SD Benchmark users, 1.99s avg resp time, Cert#2007037, Oracle 10g, AIX 5L Version 5.3;
SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark.
Submitted results for the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark
| Certified Results |
|
Performance: |
|
2175 benchmark users |
|
Server: |
|
Sun SPARC Enterprise |
|
Processors: |
|
1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 |
|
Memory: |
|
64 GB |
|
Operating system: |
|
Solaris 10 |
|
Database S/W: |
|
Oracle 10g |
|
SAP S/W: |
|
SAP ECC 6.0 |
|
SAP Certification: |
|
2007059 |
|
Storage: |
|
2 x Sun StorEdge(tm) 3510 FC Array Rack Mounted |
Thursday Aug 23, 2007
The SPARC Enterprise Model T2000 | Sun Fire Model T2000 is the performance leader in Two-Tier SAP-SD Standard Application Benchmarks on single processor systems as of August 22nd, 2007. This result used the Oracle database on the UltraSPARC T1. Again as Sun has always maintained the UltraSPARC T1 is good at database-tier, application tier, and web tier!
- Sun Fire Model T2000 supported 1100 SD Benchmark Users, 5530 SAPS, using Oracle 10g is the fastest single-processor systems.
- Sun Fire Model T2000 beats a 2-chip dual-core Itanium2-based HP Integrity rx2660.
- Sun Fire Model T2000 beats a 2-chip dual-core Opteron-based HP ProLiant DL365.
- Sun Fire Model T2000 beats a 2-chip dual-core Xeon-based Fujitsu BFi20 S2 (Unicode).
- The Fujitsu BX620 S4 that uses two-chip 3GHz Xeon Quad-cores is only 1.8x faster than a single chip Sun Fire Model T2000 using UltraSPARC T1.
- The IBM p570 that uses two-chip 4.7GHz POWER6 is only 1.8x faster than a single chip Sun Fire Model T2000 using UltraSPARC T1.
- The just-announced UltraSPARC T2 has twice the thread count of the
UltraSPARC T1.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance, Benchmark Users (bigger is better)
| Sys |
Users |
# / GHz / Type |
Mem |
OS |
DB |
LI/Hr |
SAPS |
BM rev |
Date |
| IBM p570 |
2035 |
two 4.7 POWER6+ DC |
32 GB |
AIX 5L 5.3 |
Oracle 10g |
203,670 |
10,180 |
6.0 |
5/21/07 |
| Fujitsu BX620 S4 |
1940 |
two 3.0 Xeon QC |
32 GB |
Windows Srvr 2003 EE |
SQL Server 2005 |
194,000 |
9,700 |
6.0 |
8/13/07 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1100 |
one 1.4 US T1 |
64 GB |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
110,670 |
5,530 |
6.0 |
8/22/07 |
| HP Integrity rx2660 |
1090 |
two 1.6 Itan2 DC |
32 GB |
HP-UX 11iV3 |
DB2 9 |
109,670 |
5,480 |
6.0 |
3/20/07 |
| HP ProLiant DL365 |
1083 |
two 2.8 Opt DC |
32 GB |
Windows Srvr 2003 EE |
SQL Srvr 2005 |
108,670 |
5,430 |
6.0 |
2/9/07 |
| Fujitsu BFi20 S2 Unicode |
1020 |
two 3 Xeon 5160 DC |
16 GB |
Solaris 10 |
Oracle 10g |
102,330 |
5,120 |
6.0 |
5/4/07 |
| IBM p550 |
1000 |
four 1.9 POWER5+ DC |
32 GB |
SuSE Linux ES9 |
DB2 UDB 8.2.2 |
100,330 |
5,020 |
5.0 |
10/04/05 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
950 |
one 1.2 US T1 |
32 GB |
Solaris 10 |
MaxDB 7.5 |
95,670 |
4,780 |
5.0 |
11/17/05 |
| IBM x3250 |
850 |
one 2.13 Xeon |
8 GB |
Windows SrVr 2003 EE |
DB2 9 |
88,000 |
4,400 |
6.0 |
5/11/07 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
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 competetive
systems on the various SAP products.
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
may be a different way to compare the actual power of systems.
Funny that Sun compares against current IBM results, IBM bloggers
decide to do funny comparisons on a different SAP benchmark, but
compared their latest system to a 16-month old result on a US-IV system
that is 2 processor GHz upgrades behind. I guess that is one way to win...
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark:
SPARC Enterprise Model T2000 | Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz
UltraSPARC T1, 64GB memory, 1100 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time,
Cert#2007051, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10;
Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1 x 1.2 GHz
UltraSPARC T1, 32GB memory, 950 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time,
Cert#2005047., MaxDB 7.5 database, Solaris 10;
Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY MOdel BX620 S4
(2-way, 2 procs, 8 cores, 8 threads), 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon,
32 GB memory, 1940 SD Benchmark users, 1.99 sec avg response time,
Cert#2007049, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition;
HP ProLiant DL365 (2-way, 2 procs, 4 cores, 4 threads)
2 x 2.8 GHz Opteron, 32GB memory, 1083 SAP SD Benchmark users,
1.98 sec avg response time, Cert#2007006, SQL Server 2005,
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition;
HP Integrity rx2660 (2-way, 2 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads)
2 x 1.6 GHz Itanium, 32GB memory, 1090 SAP SD Benchmark users,
1.93 sec avg response time, Cert#2007016, DB2 9, HP-UX 11iV3;
IBM System p 570 (2-way, 2 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 4.7 GHz
POWER6+, 32GB memory, 2035 SD Benchmark users, 1.99s avg resp time, Cert#2007037, Oracle 10g, AIX 5L Version 5.3;
Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Model BFi20 S2 (2-way, 2 procs, 4 cores, 4 threads)
2 x 3GHz Intel Xeon 5160 dual-core, 16GB memory,(Unicode) 1020 SAP SD Benchmark users,
1.94 sec avg response time, Cert#2007031, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10;
IBM System x3250 (1-way, 1 proc, 4 cores, 4 threads) 1 x 2.13 GHz
Xeon, 8GB memory, 850 SD Benchmark users, 1.59s avg resp time, Cert#2007036,
DB2 9, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition;
IBM System eServer p5 550 (4-way, 4 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4 x 1.9 GHz
POWER5+, 32GB memory, 1000 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 http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
| Certified Results |
|
Performance: |
|
1100 benchmark users |
|
Server: |
|
Sun Fire |
|
Processors: |
|
1 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 |
|
Memory: |
|
64 GB |
|
Operating system: |
|
Solaris 10 |
|
Database S/W: |
|
Oracle 10g |
|
SAP S/W: |
|
SAP ECC 6.0 |
|
SAP Certification: |
|
2007051 |
|
Storage: |
|
Sun StorEdge 6020 |
Thursday Aug 09, 2007
Postscript:
Be careful when comparing performance results, as an example look at
a comment in yesterday's
"Can I use 64 threads in a chip?" posting. At
least this comment pointed out that you can use 4-8 threads in 2 chip Intel-based systems, but it was really trying to
be a stab at UltraSPARC Performance. Here was the comment:
One really needs to look at the complete data on those .pdf's
to make a fair comparison (also in the disclosure statement
below).
First: The T2000 SAP-SD used a 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T1, Sun now ships faster 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1, and has announced 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2. The 1.4GHz T2 has double the threads of that 1.4GHz (double the computational power).
Second: The T2000 SAP-SD result was submitted in Dec 2005, at that time it
was near the performance of the expensive 4-way POWER5 IBM p550.
Third: The 2-chip Dual-core Xeon SAP-SD result above was
submitted 18 months after the T2000 SAP-SD result.
Fourth: Different versions of the benchmark. The 2-chip
Dual-core Xeon was run with ECC 6.0 (not SAP 5.0). The a newer version
of the benchmark takes more computational work to produce the same results.
Dual-core SAP-SD result was also run with Solaris 10 on Xeon, how cool is that!
Fifth: The 2-chip quad-core Xeon SAP-SD result above was
submitted 19 months after the T2000 SAP-SD result.
Sixth: The Sun result used open-source MySQL MaxDB database,
how cool is that! The Xeon results used Oracle or MicroSoft SQL Server.
postscript:
Sun latter used Oracle, others suggested US T1 has some sort of silly database limitation - NOT TRUE!
You'll see more results soon.
Triffids, as a reminder if you work for a partner company of SAP you must
put the following disclosures when you post results. If you are not
they you don't need to put this in, but as you can see the data in
it would have allowed you to make a better comparison of systems.
Don't worry I'm not asking you to identify yourself at all.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP ECC 5.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1x 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1, 32 GB mem, 950 SD benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2005047., MaxDB 7.5 database, Solaris 10; Two-tier SAP ECC 5.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark 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;
Two-tier SAP ECC 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Model BFi20 S2 (2 procs, 4 cores, 4 threads) 2x Intel Xeon 5160, 3.0 GHz, 16GB mem, 1,020 SD benchmark users, 1.94s avg resp time, Cert#2007031, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10;
Two-tier SAP ECC 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Model TX300 S3 (2 procs, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4x Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 2.66 GHz, 32GB mem, 1865 SD benchmark users, 1.99s avg resp time, Cert#2007025, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark.
I edited in:
2 processors into Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 2.66 GHz
...and..
32 threads to the Sun Fire T2000, 1 processor / 8 cores
...in order to make the comparisons more consistent.
Tuesday Apr 17, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) set a
World Record for the SAP-SD 2-Tier Standard Application benchmark for
systems with 16 or fewer processors as of 04/16/07. The 16-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 with 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI processors achieved 7300 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.
16-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 beats the 16-way IBM p5-570 by 32%.
16-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 beats the 16-way HP Integrity Superdome by 30%.
16-way 2.4 GHz Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 demonstrated a 17% performance improvement over the 24-way 1.95 GHz Sun Fire E6900.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 @2.4 GHz demonstrated a per processor performance improvement of 78% relative to the Sun Fire E6900 @1.95 GHz
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 @2.4 GHz demonstrated a per processor performance advantage of over 24% relative to the IBM p5 595.
IBM p5 595 with 4 times as many processors supported only 3.2x more users than the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000. Therefore...
Effective 08/31/06 a new SAP R/3 version (ECC 6.0) and kernel (7.00) is requiredto run the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark. The new version is a bit more heavy-weight than the previous version (ECC 5.0), and has a performance impact of 2-3%.
You can see more on the Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 and other new
SPARC64 VI servers at: http://www.sun.com/launch/2007-0417/feature.jsp.
Sun is not making customers move -- UltraSPARC IV is still doing great actually
FANTASTIC -- but as always Sun is providing customers with a choice. Keep checking
back for more SPARC64 VI and UltraSPARC IV+ benchmarks.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order)
| System |
OS
Database |
Users |
SAP
ERP/ECC
Release |
SAPS |
SAPS/
Proc |
Date |
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000
16xSPARC64 VIV+ @2.4GHz
256 GB |
Solaris 10
Oracle 10g |
7300 |
2005
6.0 |
36,570 |
2,285 |
17-Apr-07 |
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 |
SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark (SAP ECC 6.0) is a bit more
heavy-weight than mySAP ERP 2004 (SAP ECC 5.0), which has a performance
impact of ~2-3%.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark:
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16-way, 16 processors, 32 cores, 64 threads) 16 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI,
256GB memory, 7,300 SD benchmark users, 1.98 sec. avg. response time, Cert#2007026,
Oracle 10g database, Solaris 10;
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
Fujitsu has submitted results for the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark.
| Certified Results |
|
Performance: |
|
7,300 benchmark users |
|
Server: |
|
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 |
|
Processors: |
|
16 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI |
|
Memory: |
|
256 GB |
|
Operating system: |
|
Solaris 10 |
|
Database S/W: |
|
Oracle 10g |
|
SAP S/W: |
|
SAP ECC 6.0 |
|
SAP Certification: |
|
#2007026 |
| Storage: |
|
Sun StorageTek 6140 |
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 |
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Performance: |
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1,340 benchmark users |
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Server: |
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Sun Fire V490 |
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Processors: |
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4 x 2.1 GHz UltraSPARC IV+, 32MB L3 ECache each |
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Memory: |
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32 GB |
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Operating system: |
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Solaris 10 |
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Database S/W: |
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Oracle 10g |
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SAP S/W: |
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SAP ECC 6.0 |
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SAP Certification: |
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2007022 |
| Storage: |
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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
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