Monday Jul 14, 2008
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) set a World Record for the SAP-SD 2-Tier Standard Application benchmark. World Record SAP-SD 2-Tier: Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 SPARC64 VII SAP-SD 2-Tier ERP 6.0 (2005) outperforms largest IBM Power 595 / 5GHz POWER6.
The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with 2.52 GHz SPARC64 VII processors achieved 39,100 users on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark.
The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 beat the 32-way IBM Power 595 (5GHz 64-core Power6) by 10%. This is the largest configuration that IBM makes. IBM has a very different and very complicated core. Users should compare hardware system costs for these two systems.
The IBM p595 achieved 35,400 users on SAP-SD 2005 6.0 (177,950 SAPS, 5,561 SAPS/proc, 08-Apr-08).
The 64-way Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 beat the 64-way HP Integrity Superdome by 30%.
The IBM p595 achieved 30,000 users on SAP-SD 2005 6.0 (152,530 SAPS, 2,383 SAPS/proc, 18-Dec-06).
SAP-SD 2-Tier ERP 6.0 (2005) 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.
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 M9000
64xSPARC64 VII @2.52GHz
1024 GB |
Solaris 10
Oracle 10g |
39,100 |
2005
6.0 |
196,564 |
3,071 |
14-Jul-08 |
IBM Power 595
32xPOWER6 @5.0GHz
64 cores, 512 GB |
AIX 6.1
DB2 9.5 |
35,400 |
2005
6.0 |
177,950 |
5,561 |
08-Apr-08 |
HP Integrity SD64B
64xItanium2 @1.6GHz
128 cores, 512 GB |
HP-UX 11iV3
Oracle 10g |
30,000 |
2005
6.0 |
152,530 |
2,383 |
18-Dec-06 |
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000
64xSPARC64 VI @2.4GHz
1024 GB |
Solaris 10
Oracle 10g |
25,130 |
2005
6.0 |
129,420 |
2,022 |
11-Jul-08 |
IBM p5 595
64xPOWER5+ @2.3GHz
64 cores, 512 GB |
AIX 5.3
DB2 9 |
23,456 |
2004
5.0 |
117,520 |
1,836 |
25-Jul-06 |
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000
16xSPARC64 VI @2.4GHz
256 GB |
Solaris 10
Oracle 10g |
7,300 |
2005
6.0 |
36,570 |
2,285 |
17-Apr-07 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website
http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Disclosure Statement:
Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark
as of 07/14/08:
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) 64 x 2.52 GHz SPARC64 VII,
1024GB memory, 39,100 SD benchmark users, 1.93 sec. avg. response time,
Cert#2008042, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10, SAP ECC Release 6.0;
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (64 processors, 128 cores, 256 threads) 64 x 2.4 GHz SPARC64
VI, 1024GB memory, 25,130 SD benchmark users, 1.65 sec. avg. response time,
Cert#2008040, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10, SAP ECC Release 6.0;
Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 (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, Solaris 10, SAP ECC Release 6.0;
IBM Power 595 (32 processors, 64 cores, 128 threads),
35,400 SD benchmark users, 32 x 5.0 GHz POWER6, 512 GB,
DB2 9.5, AIX 6.1, Cert. 2008019, SAP ECC Release 6.0;
IBM System p5 595 (64 processors, 64 cores, 128 threads),
23,456 SD benchmark users, 64 x 2.3 GHz POWER5+, 512 GB,
DB2 9, AIX 5.3, Cert. 2006045, SAP ECC Release 5.0;
HP Integrity SD64B (64 processors, 128 cores, 256 threads),
30,000 SD benchmark users, 64 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2, 512 GB,
Oracle 10g, HP-UX 11iV3, Cert#2006089, SAP ECC Release 6.0;
SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries.
More info www.sap.com/benchmark.
Sun's submitted results for the SAP-SD 2-Tier benchmark
| Certified Results |
|
Performance: |
|
39,100 benchmark users |
|
Server: |
|
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 |
|
Processors: |
|
64 x 2.52 GHz SPARC64 VII |
|
Memory: |
|
1024 GB |
|
Operating system: |
|
Solaris 10 |
|
Database S/W: |
|
Oracle 10g |
|
SAP S/W: |
|
SAP ECC 6.0 |
|
SAP Certification: |
|
#2008042 |
|
Storage: |
|
1 x Internal System Disk
8 x Sun StorageTek(tm) 6140 Arrays |
Wednesday Apr 18, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) set a
World Record on the SPECompL2001 benchmark with a score of 1230446.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) set a
World Record on the SPECompLbase2001 benchmark with a score of 1148235.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) beat the
IBM POWER5+ on SPECompL2001 by 16%
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (2.4GHz SPARC64 VI) beat the
Itanium 2 dual-core SGI server on SPECompL2001 by 22%
Don't let the core count confuse you, IBM cores cost over twice Sun's cores.
Look at the other benchmark results posted to see that IBM costs more, is slower,
and has fewer cores - but it is the best IBM that offers.
SPEComp2001 Performance Chart -
SPECompL2001 (bigger is better, ordered by peak metric)
| Result |
Cores |
Chips |
OpenMP
Threads |
System |
| Peak |
Base |
| 1230446 |
1148235 |
128 |
64 |
128 |
Sun SE M9000, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz |
| 1056459 |
1005583 |
64 |
32 |
128 |
IBM p5-595, POWER5+ 2.3GHz |
| 1005076 |
987139 |
256 |
128 |
256 |
SGI Altix 4700, Itanium2 1.6GHz |
Benchmark Description
The SPEC OMPL2001 Benchmark Suite was released in June 2001 and
tests HPC performance using OpenMP for parallelism.
SPEC OMPL2001 consists of 9 programs (2 in C and 7 in Fortran)
parallelized using OpenMP API.
Goals of suite:
Targeted to Large-range (8-128 processor) parallel systems
Run rules, tools and reporting similar to SPEC CPU2000
Programs representative of HPC and Scientific Applications
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org
as of 04/17/07. Sun results submitted to SPEC.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128 OMP threads, 128 cores, 64 chips, 2.4GHz)
1230446 SPECompL2001. SGI Altix 4700, Itanium 2 (256 OMP threads, 256 cores,
128 chips) 1005076 SPECompL2001. IBM p5-595 (128 OMP threads, 64 cores, 32 chips) 1056459
SPECompL2001. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128 cores, 64 chips, 128 OMP threads, 2.4GHz)
1148235 SPECompLbase2001.
| Result |
|
M9000: |
|
1230446 SPECompL2001 |
| Reference Date: |
|
Apr 17, 2007 |
| System: |
|
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 |
| Total Number Processors: |
|
64 |
| Total Memory : |
|
1 TB (512x2GB DIMMs) |
| Processor/GHz of Server: |
|
SPARC64 VI, 2.4 GHz |
| Operating System: |
|
Solaris 10 |
| Compiler: |
|
Sun Studio 12 |
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 |
|
|
|
|
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