Monday Jan 29, 2007
As we've shown in previous blog entries, lots of Solaris benefits in terms of robustness
and performance, etc.
We're seeing more and more vendors aligning around Solaris. For example, in the
EDA market there was last years announcement by Synopsys to support VCS on Solaris 10
(on both X64 and SPARC). Press release:
http://www.synopsys.com/news/announce/press2005/sun_snps_vcs_pr.html
Also Cadence is showing broad support across its product lines for Solaris 10 for
both SPARC and Opteron. Press release:
http://www.cadence.com/company/newsroom/press_releases/pr.aspx?xml=010306_sun
more coming...
Thursday Jan 18, 2007
The Sun Blade 8000 & Sun Fire E6900 a perfect mix for
SPECjAppServer2004 World Record Performance.
The Sun Blade 8000 Modular Server, consisting of ten Sun Blade X8420
Server Modules as the application tier (4x Opteron 8220 DC 2.8GHz) and a
Sun Fire E6900 for the Database tier (24x UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz) delivered
a WORLD RECORD result of 7174.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
The ten Sun Blade X8420 Server Modules demonstrated 5% better performance
over the best HP result of 6812.79 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard which used
11 rx3600 servers and a Superdome for the database with
32 dual-core Itanium2.
This result shows the Sun Blade 8000 Modular Server with 64% better performance
over the IBM result of 4368.02 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard using 20
IBM XSeries BladeCenter HS20 blades for the application servers and
IBM p5 570 for the database.
This result shows the Sun Blade X8420 Server Module with 8% improved
scaling over the Sun Blade X8400 Server Module.
This benchmark result demonstrates that the Sun Blade X8420 and
Sun Fire E6900 running the Solaris 10 Operating system can support
over 43,000 concurrent users accessing J2EE applications.
Result highlights the performance benefits of the latest BEA Weblogic
Server release 9.2 on Sun Blade X8420 Server Modules.
This benchmark used IBM DB2 8.2.6 on the Sun Fire E6900 equipped with
24 UltraSPARC IV+ to deliver this world record result.
Competitive Landscape
SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart (bigger is better) as of 01/17/2007
| |
SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard |
J2EE Server |
DB Server |
| Sun |
7174.56 |
1x Sun Blade 8000 (10 x X8420)
80 cores, 40 chips @ 2.8 GHz AMD 8220
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x Sun Fire E6900
48 cores, 24 chips @ 1.8 GHz US-IV+
IBM DB2 8.2.6 |
| HP |
6812.79 |
11 x HP rx3600
44 cores, 22 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2 |
1 x 9000 Superdome
64 cores, 32 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| Sun |
6662.98 |
1x Sun Blade (10 x X8400)
80 cores, 40 chips @ 2.6 GHz AMD 880
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x Sun Fire E6900
48 cores, 24 chips @ 1.5 GHz US-IV+
IBM DB2 8.2.5 |
| HP |
4915.49 |
4 x HP rx6600
32 cores, 16 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
BEA WebLogic 9.1 |
1 x 9000 Superdome
64 cores, 32 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| IBM |
4368.02 |
2x IBM HS20
40 cores, 40 chips @ 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon
WebSphere 6.1 |
1 x IBM p570
16 cores, 8 chips @ 1.9 GHz IBM Power5
IBM DB2 v9.1 |
| Sun |
4098.77 |
7 x Sun Fire T2000
56 cores, 7 chips @ 1.2 GHz US-T1
BEA WebLogic 9.0 |
1 x Sun Fire E6900
40 cores, 20 chips @ 1.5 GHz US-IV+
Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4 |
SPECjAppServer2004 Results Page
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.
Disclosure Statement:
SPECjAppServer2004 10 Sun Fire X8420 (80 cores, 40 chips) and 1 Sun Fire
E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 7174.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 11 HP rx3600 (44 cores, 22 chips) and HP 9000 Superdome (64 cores, 32 chips) 6812.79 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 20 IBM xSeries BladeCenter HS20 (40 cores, 40 chips) and IBM eServer p5 570 (16 cores, 8 chips) 4368.02 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from http://www.spec.org. as of 01/17/2007.
| Certified Results |
|
7174.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard |
| Reference Date: |
|
Jan 17, 2007 |
| Systems: |
|
10 x Sun Blade X8420, 32GB |
|
|
1 x Sun Fire E6900, 192GB, 4 x Sun StorageTek SE3510 FC Array |
| Total Number Processors: |
|
40, 24 |
| Processor/GHz of Server: |
|
AMD Opteron 8220 2.8 GHz |
|
|
UltraSPARC IV+ 1.8 GHz |
| Operating System: |
|
Solaris 10 6/06 |
| Software: |
|
BEA WebLogic 9.2 Advantage Edition |
|
|
IBM DB2 8.2.6 Enterprise Editon |
| JVM: |
|
J2SE 5.0 update 10 |
