Monday Apr 14, 2008
For a survey of the wide variety of blogs with good technical data on the new UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140,...), please look at Allan Packer's blog index at:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_cmt_goes_multi
Wednesday Apr 09, 2008
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 obtained a world record SPECweb2005
result 41847 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T2
running Solaris 10 with a real world web server Sun Java[TM] System
Web Server. This is a 13% improvement over the original result
published at www.spec.org in Oct '07. Demonstrating Sun Microsystems
continued commitment to performance improvements.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 4% greater
performance than the four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with 2.9 GHz
Quad-Core Xeon processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
has 1.8X better power-performance and has 3.6X better SWaP.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 41% greater
performance than the 2-socket HP ProLiant DL380 G2 with 3.16 GHz
Quad-core Intel Xeon 5460 processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5220 has 1.1X better power-performance and has 1.1X better
SWaP.
There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECweb benchmark.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server is 5.3 times faster than the
4-core IBM p550 1.9GHz POWER5+.
This world record benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 running the Solaris 10 05/08 and Java System
Webserver 7.0 Update 3 can support thousands of concurrent secure and
non secure web server sessions while allowing larger and more complex
Java applications to be run and is an industry leader in web
serving.
Cryptography performance is enhanced on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
by using UltraSPARC T2's enhanced on-chip cryptographic hardware with
Solaris 10's secured web service software feature. SPECweb2005's banking
workload highlights the server's secure web server performance. The Sun
SPARC Enterprise T5220 (70,000 SPECweb2005_Banking) performance was 35%
greater than the 2 socket 3.16 GHz Quad-Core Xeon X5460 HP ProLiant DL380
G5 (51,840 SPECweb2005_Banking).
The HP Proliant DL580 G5 (40,046 SPECweb2005) used seventeen 1GbE
networks versus Sun's three 10GbE and two 1GbE, providing much simplified
administration.
At peak load, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 had an average power
consumption of 617 watts for the three SPECweb2005 benchmark workloads at
steady-state.
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.
Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 04/01/2008. Complete
information at: http://www.spec.org
website.
| System |
Chips, Core
/Chip |
CPU/GHz |
OS |
Web Server |
SPEC web
2005 |
Bank |
Ecom |
Supp |
| Sun SE T5220 |
1,8 |
US T2 1.4 |
Solaris 05/08 |
Sun JSWS 7.0 Update 3 |
41847 |
70000 |
58000 |
40000 |
| HP PL DL580 G5 |
4,4 |
Xeon QC / 2.993 |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.6/
JRock v1.3.1 |
40046 |
71104 |
55552 |
36032 |
| Sun SE T5220 |
1,8 |
US T2/ 1.4 |
Solaris 05/08 |
Sun JSWS 7.0
Update 3 |
37001 |
63000 |
49500 |
36000 |
| HP PL DL380 G5 |
2, 4 |
Xeon QC / 3.16 |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.6/
JRock v1.3.1 |
29591 |
51840 |
46512 |
23816 |
| HP PL DL580 G5 |
4, 4 |
Xeon QC/2.4 |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.1/
JRock v1.2.0 |
26119 |
45056 |
37312 |
23488 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1,8 |
US T1/1.4 |
Solaris 11/06 |
Sun JSWS 6.1
SP5 64b |
16407 |
25812 |
24048 |
15768 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1, 8 |
US T1/1.2 |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1
SP5 64b |
14001 |
21500 |
21500 |
13160 |
| Sun Fire T1000 |
1, 8 |
US T1/1.0 |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1
SP5 64b |
10466 |
20000 |
16500 |
7700 |
| IBM p5 550 |
2,2 |
POW5+/ 1.9 |
SuSE Linux |
Zeus4.3r1/
Tomcat5.5.9 |
7881 |
12240 |
11820 |
7500 |
Results in BLUE are the Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5220 results currently under SPEC review.
Benchmark Description
SPECweb2005, is the latest
industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance
developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions
accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP
requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:
- Measures simultaneous user sessions
- Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
- Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
- Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce
(HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
- Simulates browser caching effects
- File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access
patterns
Example Disclosure Statement:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 41847 SPECweb2005,
submitted to SPEC for review on April 8, 2008. HP ProLiant
DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips)
40046 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (8 cores, 2 chips) 29591
SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 26119
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 16407
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466
SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881
SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Apr 7, 2008.
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server power consumption taken
from measurements made during the benchmark run.
Power is average measured watts during
benchmark run.
HP DL580 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured
with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x
36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilisation on 9/10/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
HP DL380G5 power consumption from HP Power Calculator for system configured
with 2 x X5460 3.16GHz processors, redundant PSU, 8 x 4GB DIMMs,
2 x HBAs and 2 x 146GB SAS drives, 80% utilisation on 01/09/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
41847 SPECweb2005 |
| Reference Date: |
April 7, 2008 |
| Systems: |
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 |
| Total Number Processors: |
1 chip / 8 cores (8 threads/core) |
| Processor/GHz of Server: |
Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz |
| Operating System: |
Solaris 10 05/08 + patches
|
| Software: |
Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 3
|
| |
Sun Java[TM] Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.6.0_06-p
|
Tuesday Feb 26, 2008
{update} There is a lot of information about MySQL and Sun at http://www.sun.com/mysql
In addition, I've put together a list of several blogs on MySQL performance.
* a very interesting results that compares Solaris Open-source stack (OS, DB, Web, Virtualizaion) on a 1-chip UltraSPARC T2 server and beating a proprietary stack on a 4-chip QC Xeon. Also measured actual watts and costs. Seems real configurations of HP DL580's draw lots of watts:
http://blogs.sun.com/ritu/entry/mysql_benchmark_us_t2_beats
* an ERP result using MySQL with SugarCRM:
http://blogs.sun.com/vanga/entry/scaling_sugarcrm_with_mysql_on
* great information about tuning MySQL on linux and some performance results:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/tuning_mysql_on_linux
* nice writeup on InnoDB on SysBench:
http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/tuning_mysql_innodb_for_sysbench
For a For a variety of things on MySQL see:
http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/mysql_done_deal_talking_with
Thursday Oct 11, 2007
The Sun UltraSPARC T2 processor provides fast performance at both
the Oracle database tier and the java application tier.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivered a World Record
result of 2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard for a single
application server system. This result used a Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 Application Server (single UltraSPARC T2 1.4GHz) and a
Sun T5120 Server Database System (single UltraSPARC T2 1.2GHz).
This benchmark used the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3 -
Java Edition and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.
This benchmark result proves that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and
T5120 servers using the UltraSPARC T2 processor perform as oustanding
J2EE application servers as well as an Oracle 10G OLTP database server.
The Sun T5220 server consumed an average of 468 Watts and the Sun T5120
consumed an average of 388 Watts for a total of 856 Watts in 3 RU space
during the execution of this benchmark.
One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 67% better
performance over the IBM result of 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
which used 4-core IBM p570 with 4.7GHz POWER6 processors.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 used as Application server has 3.8x better power-performance and
has 7.3x better SWaP than the IBM p570 power6. Enterprise T5120 used
as database servrer has 3.4 better power-performance and
has 13.5x better SWaP as the IBM p550.
One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 19% better
performance over the Rackable Systems result of 1672.64 SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard which used 2-socket Rack C2002 quad-core 2.66GHz
Xeon processors.
One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 30% better
performance over the Inspur result of 1538.65 SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard which used 2-socket Inspur NF280D quad-core 2.66GHz
Xeon processors
One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 58% better
performance over the HP result
of 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
which used 4-socket HP rx6600 dual-core 1.6GHz Itanium2 processors.
The Sun T5220 achieved 4x better power-performance and
has 13.3 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.
SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart as of 10/10/2007. Complete
benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website
http://www.spec.org.
SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better)
| |
SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard |
J2EE Server |
DB Server |
| Sun |
2000.92 |
1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2
Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3 |
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T2
Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3 |
| Rackable |
1672.64 |
1x Rackable C2002
8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 Xeon X5355
Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2 |
1x Rackable S3118
8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.33 Xeon E5345
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| Inspur |
1538.65 |
1x Inspur NF280D
8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 GHz Xeon X5355
BEA WebLogic 10.0 |
1x Inspur NF380D
8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 GHz Xeon X5355
IBM DB2 9.1 |
| HP |
1266.42 |
1 x HP rx6600
8 cores, 4 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
BEA WebLogic 9.1 |
1 x HP rx8620
16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
| IBM |
1197.51 |
1 x IBM p570
4 cores, 2 chips @ 4.7 GHz IBM POWER6
IBM WebSphere 6.1 |
1 x IBM p550
4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+
IBM DB2 v9.1 |
| HP |
874.17 |
1 x HP rx2660
4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2 |
1 x HP rx2660
4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| Sybase |
652.95 |
1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900
4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160
Sybase EAS 6.0.2 |
1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900
4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160
SQLAnywhere 10.0.1 |
| IBM |
618.38 |
1 x IBM p505Q
4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.65 GHz POWER5+
IBM WebSphere 6.1 |
1 x IBM p550
4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz POWER5+
IBM DB2 v8.1 |
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.
Example Disclosure Statement:
SPECjAppServer2004
1 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (8 cores, 1 chip) 2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 Rackable C2002 (8 cores, 2 chips) 1 Rackable S3118 (8 cores, 2 chips) 1672.64 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 Inspur NF280D (8 cores, 2 chips) and 1 Inspur NF380D (8 cores, 2 chips) 1538.65 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 HP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 IBM p570 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 Dell PowerEdge 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 Dell PowerEdge 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) 652.95 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 IBM p505Q (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550(4 cores, 2 chips) 618.38 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 10/10/2007.
The IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220
and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The IBM p6 570 power
specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published
06/07/07, posted
here.
The HP rx2660 requires 2RU of rack space and
consumes on average 559 Watts of power. The HP rx2660 power calculated
as 70% of max input power
reported 07/17/07
The Dell PowerEdge 2900 requires 5RU of
rack space and consumes on average 350 Watts of power. The Dell power
rating 08/24/07 from
Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner
System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x
Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU
The IBM p505Q requires 1 RU of rack space and
consumes on average 320 Watts of power. The IBM p505 power
specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published
in "Facts and Features Report", 03/27/07, posted
here.
The HP rx2660 requires 2RU of rack space and consumes on average
559 Watts of power.
Power Reference: HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of
max input
power reported 07/17/07.
The Dell
PowerEdge 2900 requires 5RU of rack space and consumes on average 350
Watts of power. The Dell power rating 08/24/07 from
Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner
System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x
Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU
The IBM p550
requires 4RU of rack space and consumes on average 770 Watts of power.
The IBM p5 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the power
numbers published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 3/10/06, posted
< href=http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html>
here.
The
HP rx6600 server requires 7 RU of rack space and consumes on average
1163* Watts of power.
Power Reference: HP rx6600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of
the maximum reported power dissipation, documented
here on 03/23/07.
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
|
2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard |
| Reference Date: |
|
Oct 10, 2007 |
| Systems: |
|
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 |
|
|
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 |
| Total Number Processors: |
|
1, 1 |
| Processor/GHz of Server: |
|
UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz |
|
|
UltraSPARC T2 1.2 GHz |
| Operating System: |
|
Solaris 10 8/07 |
| Software: |
|
Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3 - Java Edition |
|
|
Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3 |
| JVM: |
|
J2SE 6.0 update 3 |
Thursday Oct 11, 2007
The Sun Blade 6000 chassis can run Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware running on single and multi-core processors by Sun, AMD, and Intel, in one chassis.
It is a 10-blade, 10RU Sun Blade 6000 Chassis.
Sun has announced single chip World Record results for SPECint_rate2006.
This result was run on the Sun Blade T6320 blade module which
uses the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, running at 1.4 GHz, beat all single chip results running SPECint_rate2006 with a result of 78.5.
The Sun Blade T6320 system beats the best single IBM 4.7 GHz dual-core POWER6 processor result by 29%.
The Sun Blade T6320 system beat the best published single 3 GHz Xeon
quad-core by 28% on SPECint_rate2006.
There are no single quad-core Opteron results published for SPECint_rate2006.
SPEC SPECint_rate2006 Performance -
bigger is better, selected recent results,
please see
www.spec.org for complete results.
| System |
CPU |
Performance |
| Type, GHz |
Chips, Cores,Threads |
Peak |
Base |
| T6320 |
US T2 1.4GHz |
1, 8, 64 |
78.6 |
73.1 |
| T5120/T5220 |
US T2, 1.4GHz |
1, 8, 64 |
78.5 |
73.0 |
| HP DL360 G5 |
Intel Xeon QC 3GHz |
1, 4, 4 |
61.3 |
53.8 |
| IBM p 570 |
Power6 4.7GHz |
1, 2, 4 |
60.9 |
53.2 |
| Fujitsu RX300 |
Intel Xeon, 2.66 Xeon |
1, 4, 4 |
52.8 |
50.5 |
Yes UltraSPARC T2 result differences are in the noise between these platforms, SPEC allows run-to-run variations. Notice these results are 0.127% to 0.137% (yes near 1/10 of 1%) different.
Results as of 9 Jan 2008 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 as of 9 Jan 2008 from www.spec.org.
Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores),
78.6 SPECint_rate2006.
Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores),
78.6 SPECint_rate2006.
IBM p570 (POWER6, 1 chip, 2 cores), 60.9 SPECint_rate2006.
Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.6 SPECint_rate2006.
HP DL360 G5 (X5365, 1 chip, 4 cores), 61.3 SPECint_rate2006.
Results Summary
| Results |
| Reference Date: |
|
9 Jan 2008 |
| System: |
|
Sun Blade T6320 |
| Processor: |
|
Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1.4 GHz |
|
|
|
78.6 SPECint_rate2006 |
| Software: |
|
Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler |
Wednesday Oct 10, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 each with
the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2
processor obtained the best single-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-JVM single-chip result of 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops,
170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and the
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 each consumed an average of 468 Watts of
power to obtain this result.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5120 servers beat all single-JVM results
from Dell and HP, and all 8-core or less single-JVM results from IBM. These
are easy to run and they are big companies, so why not publish on the latest?
frayed knot? 
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers single-JVM 64-bit
SPECjbb2005 result is within 11% of the performance of the multi-JVM
result, highlighting the flexibility of the Ultra SPARC T2 and Sun HotSpot JVM
technology.
The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) was within 3% of the
performance of the multi-JVM 4-core 4.7GHz IBM p570 (POWER6) result of 175,474
SPECjbb2005 bops 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5220 server has
2.2x better power-performance and has 4.3x better SWaP than the IBM
4-core p570.
The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 7% 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 1.4x better
power-performance and has 2.8x better SWaP.
The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 8% 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 2.6x better power-performance and has 18x better SWaP than the
HP rx6600.
The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 2.1x better
performance than the 2-socket
HP rx2660 result of 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops,
80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5120 server
has 2.5x better power-performance and has 5x better SWaP.
The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 52% better
performance than the Dell PowerEdge 860
result of 112,092 SPECjbb2005 bops
112092 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used a 2.4GHz
quad-core Xeon processor.
The Sun T5120 server delivers better performance
in the same 1 RU rack space.
The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 1.9X
better performance over the 2-core 4.7GHz IBM p570 (POWER6) result of
88,089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88,089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC
Enterprise T5120 has 4.3x better power-performance and has 17x 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 |
CPU |
Performance |
| Chips, Cores, Threads |
GHz Type |
bops |
JVMs |
bops/JVM |
| Sun T5120 |
10/07 |
1, 8, 64 |
1.4 GHz US T2 |
192055 |
8 |
24007 |
| Sun T5220 |
10/07 |
1, 8, 64 |
1.4GHz US T2 |
192055 |
8 |
24007 |
| IBM p570 |
6/07 |
2, 4, 4 |
4.7GHz POWER6 |
175474 |
2 |
87737 |
| Sun T5120 |
10/07 |
1, 8, 64 |
1.4GHz US T2 |
170153 |
1 |
170153 |
| Sun T5220 |
10/07 |
1, 8, 64 |
1.4GHz US T2 |
170153 |
1 |
170153 |
| HP rx6600 |
11/06 |
4, 8, 16 |
1.6GHz Itanium2 DC |
158174 |
4 |
39544 |
| Dell PE6950 |
1/07 |
4, 8, 8 |
2.8GHz Opteron DC |
159382 |
4 |
39846 |
| Dell PE860 |
1/07 |
1, 2, 4 |
2.4 GHz Xeon |
112092 |
1 |
112092 |
| IBM p570 |
6/07 |
1, 2, 2 |
4.7GHz POWER6 |
88089 |
1 |
88089 |
| HP rx2660 |
1/07 |
2, 4, 4 |
1.6GHz Itanium 2 |
80884 |
1 |
80884 |
| IBM p505Q |
8/06 |
2, 4, 8 |
1.65GHz POWER5+ |
63544 |
2 |
31772 |
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 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153
SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 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,
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 rx2660 server requires 2 RU of rack space and consumes on
average 563+ Watts of power. HP rx2660 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: |
|
170153 |
| |
SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM: |
|
170153 |
| |
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 |
If you want to know, I most of this from internal documentation, if I had to figure all of this out and follow these rules, I'd go crazy. So many thanks for all of the Sun people that I plagiarize.
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Sun compared a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1RU, 1 CPU) benchmark to a
IBM p570 4.7GHz POWER6 (4RU 2-CPU 4-core). Yes, Sun is 4 times smaller and
IBM uses 2.3 TIMES more watts".
what is IBM response...
"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"
IBM tells us to compare on core count???? OK, 8-core IBM p570 power6 is:
- 8 rack units (8 times bigger than Sun's 1 RU T5120!)
- lots of watts (more than 4 times Sun T5120)
- ...oh yeah, IBM 8-core is not even twice the performance
- IBM's price of the IBM system 8-core with 64GB @4.7GHz???
Sun's uses the watts that IBM puts in their datasheets (and even give them the benefit of the doubt by reducing it, please notice that when IBM launched the product they used to brag about these same watts). Because IBM does NOT publish
measured watts on
actual benchmarks. IBM prefers to say insane things....
"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"
it is often said... " that the definition of insanity is repetition of an action, each time hoping for a different outcome."
"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"
"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"
"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"
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. IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz) best 8-core two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result (4010 benchmark users, 1.96 second average response time, cert # 2007038) running Oracle 10g, AIX 5L V5.3, SAP ECC Release 6.0. (8 processor cores/4 chips/16 threads) with 64 GB memory.
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 |
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 obtained a world record SPECweb2005
result 37,001 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T2
running Solaris 10 with Sun Java System Web Server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 22% greater
performance than the four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with 2.9 GHz
Quad-Core Xeon processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
has 2.1x better power-performance and has 4.1x better SWaP.
Yes, beats FOUR SOCKETs filled with QUAD_CORE!
See below if you are not familiar with SWaP and why you should care
about the SWaP 'figure of merit.'
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 66% greater
performance than the 4-socket HP ProLiant DL585 G2 with 3 GHz dual-core
Opteron processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
has 2.2x better power-performance and has 4.4x better SWaP.
There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECweb benchmark.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server is 4.7 times faster than the
4-core IBM p550 1.9GHz POWER5+. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 has 5.7x better power-performance and has 11.5x better SWaP.
This
world record benchmark result
clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 running the
Solaris 10 08/07 and Java System Webserver 7.0 Update 2 can support
thousands of
concurrent secure and non secure web server sessions while allowing
larger and more complex
Java applications to be run and is an industry leader in web
serving.
Cryptography performance is enhanced on the Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 by using UltraSPARC T2's enhanced
on-chip cryptographic hardware with Solaris 10's secured web service
software feature. SPECweb2005's banking workload
highlights the server's secure web server performance. The Sun
SPARC Enterprise T5220 (63,000
SPECweb2005_Banking) performance was 21% greater than the 2.9 GHz
Quad-Core Xeon HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (52,160
SPECweb2005_Banking).
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 ] )
One thing you'll note is Sun execs are using the term "power-performance",
maybe they've been getting the word from some of us that it should
be coputed as "watt/perf".
Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since
power-performance is related to $/perf they are both
calculated with "performance" in the denominator.
Competitive Landscape
Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 10/04/2007. Complete
information at: http://www.spec.org
website.
| System |
Chip, Core |
Proc GHz |
OS |
Web Server |
SPEC web 2005 |
Bank |
Ecom |
Supp |
| Sun SE T5220 |
1, 8 |
US T2/1.4 |
Solaris 08/07 |
Sun JSWS 7.0u2 |
37001 |
63000 |
49500 |
36000 |
| HP PL DL580 G5 |
4, 4 |
Xeon QC 2.993GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 |
30261 |
52160 |
42048 |
28000 |
| HP PL DL585 G2 |
4, 2 |
Opteron DC 3GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 |
22254 |
38400 |
30720 |
20704 |
| HP PL ML370 G5 |
4, 4 |
Xeon QC 2.66GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock v1.2.0 |
19661 |
34720 |
27264 |
17792 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.4GHz |
Solaris 11/06 |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
16407 |
25812 |
24048 |
15768 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.2GHz |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
14001 |
21500 |
21500 |
13160 |
| Sun Fire T1000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.0 GHz |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
10466 |
20000 |
16500 |
7700 |
| IBM p5 550 |
2, 2 |
POWER5+ 1.9GHz |
SuSE Linux |
Zeus4.3r1 Tomcat5.5.9 |
7881 |
12240 |
11820 |
7500 |
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 results currently under SPEC review.
Benchmark Description
SPECweb2005, is the latest
industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance
developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions
accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP
requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:
- Measures simultaneous user sessions
- Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
- Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
- Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce
(HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
- Simulates browser caching effects
- File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access
patterns
Disclosure Statement:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 37001 SPECweb2005,
submitted to SPEC for review on October 8, 2007. HP ProLiant
DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 30261 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL585 G2 (8 cores, 4 chips) 22254 SPECweb2005.; HP ProLiant ML370 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 19661
SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G4 (8 cores, 4 chips) 18981
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 16407
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466
SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881
SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 8, 2007.
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server power consumption taken
from measurements made during the benchmark run.
Power is average measured watts during
benchmark run.
HP DL580 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured
with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x
36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilisation on 9/10/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
HP DL385G2 power consumption from HP Power Calculator for system
configured with 2 x AMD 2220 2.8GHz processors, redundant PSU, 8 x 4GB
DIMMs, 2 x HBAs and 2 x 146GB SAS drives, 80% utilisation on 6/4/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
IBM 550 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the Maximum
Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted
atftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF.
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
37,001 SPECweb2005 |
| Reference Date: |
October 9, 2007 |
| Systems: |
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 |
| Total Number Processors: |
1 chip / 8 cores (8 threads/core) |
| CPU/GHz of Server: |
Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz |
| Operating System: |
Solaris 10 08/07 + patches
|
| Software: |
Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 2
|
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
Earlier today I posted some crypto results, see the crypto doc for with even more details: http://blogs.sun.com/sprack
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 |
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Performance: |
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2175 benchmark users |
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Server: |
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Sun SPARC Enterprise |
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Processors: |
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1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 |
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Memory: |
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64 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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2007059 |
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Storage: |
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2 x Sun StorEdge(tm) 3510 FC Array Rack Mounted |
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