SPECweb2005 Sun Fire X4450 four 2.933 GHz Quad-core X7350 Xeons

Monday Dec 08, 2008

The Sun Fire X4450 64GB with four 2.933 GHz Quad-core Xeon X7350 obtained 39,793 SPECweb2005 using only 883 watts. The Sun Fire X4450 was running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2 with Accoria Networks, Rock Web Server v1.4.7 and Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.3.2. This result demonstrates Sun Microsystems continued commitment to deliver the high performing servers, regardless of operating system environments.

The Sun Fire X4450 with 2.933GHz QC Xeons with 64GB of memory had an average power consumption of 883 watts. The average power consumption was measured for each of the three SPECweb2005 benchmark workloads during the steady state load period at peak load. The power-performance for the Sun Fire X4450 is .022, power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

This result is competitive to the HP ProLiant DL580 G5, HP's 4 socket Xeon X7350 offering.

The Sun Fire X4450 with 4x10Gb network links obtained similar performance to the HP DL580 G5 with 16x1Gb network links. By obtaining similar performance with fewer networks, IT management costs and server power consumption are reduced.

Competitive Landscape

Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 12/04/2008. Complete information at: http://www.spec.org website.

System OS	Chips, Cores /Chip	CPU (GHz)	Web Server	SPEC web 2005	Bank	Ecom	Supp
HP PL DL585 G5 RedHat Linux	4, 4	AMD 8356 QC (2.3)	Rock1.4.7/ JRock v1.3.2	43854	76032	62304	39456
Fujitsu RX600 S4 RedHat Linux	4, 4	Xeon QC X7350 (2.93)	Rock1.4.7/ JRock v1.3.2	42783	75008	59264	39040
Sun SE T5220 Sol 10 05/08	1, 8	US T2 (1.4)	Sun JSWS 7.0 U3	41847	70000	58000	40000
HP PL DL580 G5 RedHat Linux	4, 4	Xeon QC X7350 (2.93)	Rock1.4.6/JRock v1.3.1	40046	71104	55552	36032
Sun Fire X4450 SLES 10 SP2	4, 4	Xeon QC X7350 (2.93)	Rock1.4.7/ JRock v1.3.2	39793	70500	57000	34750
Sun Fire X4240 RedHat Linux	2, 4	AMD QC 2360SE (2.5)	Rock1.4.7/ JRock v1.3.2	32288	53048	50008	28120
HP PL DL580 G5 RedHat Linux	4, 4	Xeon QC X7350 (2.93)	Rock1.4.1/JRock v1.2.0	30261	52160	42048	28000
HP PL DL385 G5 RedHat Linux	2, 4	AMD 2356 QC (2.3)	Rock1.4.6/JRock v1.3.1	30007	50856	46020	25584
HP PL DL380 G5 RedHat Linux	2,4	Xeon QC X5460 (3.16)	Rock1.4.6/ JRock v1.3.1	29591	51840	46512	23816
IBM p5 550 SuSE Linux	2, 2	DC Pow5+ (1.9)	Zeus4.3r1/ Tomcat 5.5.9	7881	12240	11820	7500

Measured power consumption from Sun Fire X4450 64GB with 4 2.933GHz QC Xeon, smaller watt/performance is better.

System	Work- load Ave	watt / perf	Banking		Ecomm		Support
			Avg Watts	Min, Max Watt	Avg Watt	Min, Max Watt	Avg Watt	Min, Max Watt
1 x Sun Fire X4450 64GB 4-chip 2.93GHz QC Xeon	883w	.0222	903w	781w, 923w	881w	620w, 906w	867w	734w, 897w
1 x Sun Fire T5220 64GB 1-chip 1.4GHz US T2	617w	.0147
1 x Sun Fire X4240 32GB 2-chip 2.5GHz QC Opteron	521w	.0161

At peak load, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 with 64GB had an average power consumption of 617 watts for the three SPECweb2005 benchmark workloads at steady-state measured watts during benchmark run. A blog about this result at: http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/sun_s_even_faster_specweb2005

At peak load, the Sun SPARC Enterprise X4240 with 32GB had an average power consumption of 521 watts for the three SPECweb2005 benchmark workloads at steady-state measured watts during benchmark run.

You can look up competitive watts at:
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: 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: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp

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 Fire X4450 (16 cores, 4 chips) 39793 SPECweb2005.  HP ProLiant DL585 G5 ( 16 core, 4 chips) 43854 SPECweb2005.  Fujitsu Siemems Primergy RX600 S4 (16 cores, 4 chips) 42783  SPECweb2005.  Sun SPARC Enterprise X5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 41847 SPECweb2005.  HP ProLiant DL585 G5 (16 cores/4 chips) 40046 SPECweb2005 (re-run of 2.93GHz).  Sun Fire X4240 (8 cores, 2 chips) 32288 SPECweb2005.  HP ProLiant DL585 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 30261 SPECweb2005 (initial 2.93 GHz run).  HP ProLiant DL385 G5 (8 cores, 2 chips) 30007 SPECweb2005.  HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (8 cores, 2 chips) 29591 SPECweb2005. PRIMERGY TX300 S4 (8 cores, 2 chips) 28127 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 Dec 4, 2008.

Sun Fire X4450 server power consumption was taken from measurements made during the benchmark runs of each workload at peak load, during the steady state load period. The power is the average measured watts during the benchmark run.

Results Summary

Results		39793 SPECweb2005
Reference Date:		Dec 4, 2008
Systems:		1 x Sun Fire X4450, 64GB
Total Number Processors:		4 chips / 4 cores per chip
Processor/GHz of Server:		4 x Xeon 7350 2.933 GHz
Operating System:		SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP2
Software:		Rock Web Server v1.4.7 & Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.3.2
		Java HotSpot[TM] 64-Bit Server VM on Linux, Version 1.6.0_06 Performance Release

Truly Outstanding Webserving Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, WOW!!!

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

NEW 1.4GHz Sun Fire T2000 World Record 1-socket SPECweb2005 & World Record Perf/Watt

Tuesday Jan 09, 2007

The Sun Fire T2000 obtained a world record single-socket 16,407 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T1 and 64 GB memory running Solaris 10 11/06 with Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 6.1 SP5 64-bit web server.

The Sun Fire T2000 had an average power consumption of 340 watts for all benchmark workloads at steady-state.

Secured web server is critical for most of today's datacenters, unfortunately other vendors have a big performance and cost penalty for security. The Sun Fire T2000 has a unique hardware design and coupled with Solaris 10's software features secured web services only adds 10%. Now users can use SSL-enabled web service by default. This is a huge advantage for Sun customers.

Various Comparisons

• The Sun Fire T2000 delivers 24% faster on SPECweb2005 than the 4-core HP DL380G5 with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160  (WoodCrest), while consuming 2.5X less power, and up to 3x higher SWaP.


• The Sun Fire T2000 is 13% faster on SPECweb2005 performance than the 4-core Dell PowerEdge 2950 with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon 5160  (WoodCrest).


• The Sun Fire T2000 is 10% faster on SPECweb2005 than the 8-core Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX600 S3 with Intel Xeon 7140M.


• The Sun Fire T2000 is 10% faster on SPECweb2005 than the 8-core HP ProLiant DL585 G2 with 2.0 GHz AMD Opteron 8212.


• The Sun Fire T2000 is 4% faster on SPECweb2005 than the 8-core HP Proliant DL585 with 2.6GHz AMD Opteron 885.


• The Dell 2950 equipped with 2 of the latest Quad-core Intel Xeon 5300 Series “Clovertown” running Red Hat Enterprise Linux delivers only 3% higher throughput than the single socket Sun Fire T2000, but consumes nearly 55% more power. As a result the T2000 delivers 1.5X better Performance per Watt and SWaP


• The Sun Fire T2000 is 208% faster on SPECweb2005 than the 4-core IBM p5 550 with 1.9GHz POWER5+.

The Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 6.1 Service Pack 5 for 64-bit Solaris 10 on SPARC hardware is optimized to leverage the 64-bit processing environments.

This world record benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the Sun Fire T2000 running the Solaris 10 OS and Java System Webserver 6.1 SP5 can support thousands of concurrent web server sessions while allowing larger and more complex Java applications to be run.

SPECweb2005 Benchmark Performance as of 01/09/2007. all results at http://www.spec.org website.

System	CPU MHz	OS	Web Server	SPEC web2005	Bank/Ecom/Supp	Watts
HP/Proliant DL585 G2	AMD Opteron 8220 @ 2.8GHz (4 chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	20235	36400/28000/18016
Dell/PowerEdge 2950	Intel Xeon X5355 (Clovertown) @ 2.66GHz (2 Chips, 4 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 AS Update 3	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	16830	33250/20500/15500	525
Sun/Sun Fire T2000	UltraSPARC T1 @ 1.4 GHz (1 Chip, 8 Cores/Chip,  4 threads/core)	Solaris 10 11/06	Sun Java [TM] System Web Server 6.1 SP5 64-bit	16407	25812/24048/15768	340
HP/Proliant DL585	AMD Opteron 885 @ 2.6GHz (4 chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	15850	32992/25024/10688
HP/Proliant DL585 G2	AMD Opteron 8212 @ 2.0GHz (4 chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	14964	27200/20960/13024	812
Fujitsu/PRIMERGY RX600 S3	Intel Xeon 7140M @ 3.4GHz (4 chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	14896	25260/21480/13500
Dell/PowerEdge 2950	Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) @ 3.0GHz (2 Chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	14495	23800/20400/13900
Sun/Sun Fire T2000	UltraSPARC T1 @ 1.2 GHz (1 Chip, 8 Cores/Chip,  4 threads/core)	Solaris 10 3/05 HW2 plus patches	Sun Java [TM] System Web Server 6.1 SP5 64-bit	14001	21500/21500/13160	339
HP/Proliant DL380 G5	Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) @ 3.0GHz (2 Chips, 2 cores/chip)	RH Enterprise Linux 4 Update 4	Accoria Rock Web Server v1.4.0 (x86_64), Accoria Rock JSP/Servlet Container v1.2.0 (x86_64)	13257	23808/20400/10632	835
Sun/Sun Fire T1000	UltraSPARC T1 @ 1.0 GHz (1 Chip, 8 Cores/Chip,  4 threads/core)	Solaris 10 6/06	Sun Java [TM] System Web Server 6.1 SP5 64-bit	10466	20000/16500/7700	178
IBM/IBM System p5 550	POWER5+ @ 1.9 GHz (2 Chips, 2 Cores/Chip w SMT)	SLES 9 SP2	Zeus 4.3r1 (64 bit), Apache Tomcat 5.5.9 plus Compat 5.5.9	7881	12240/11820/7500	770

The Sun Fire T2000 1.4 results currently under SPEC review.

Sun Fire T2000/T1000 server power consumption taken from measurements made during the benchmark run. Power is average measured watts during benchmark run.

IBM 550 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the Maximum Wattss published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF.

Dell 2950 power rating estimated by calculating 70% of the power supply data reported in the product brochure,http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pedge/en/2950_specs.pdf

HP DL585 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum input wattage rating of 1160W reported here on 11/14/06: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11902_na/11902_na.html#Power%20Specifications

HP DL380G5 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum input wattage rating of 1193W reported here on 11/14/06: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12477_na/12477_na.html#Power%20Specifications

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:

SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores/1 chip) 16407 SPECweb2005, submitted to SPEC for review. HP Proliant DL585 G2 (2 cores/4 chips) 20235 SPECweb2005. Dell PowerEdge 2950 (4 cores/2 chips) 16830 SPECweb2005. HP Proliant DL585 (2 cores/4 chips) 15850 SPECweb2005.  HP Proliant DL585 G2 (2 cores/4 chips) 14964 SPECweb2005. Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX600 S3 (2 cores/4 chip) 14896 SPECweb2005. Dell PowerEdge 2950 (2 cores/2 chip) 14495 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores/1 chip) 14001 SPECweb2005. HP Proliant DL380 G5 (2 cores/2 chips) 13257 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores/1 chip) 10466 SPECweb2005. IBM System p5 550 (2 cores/2 chips 7881 SPECweb2005. Results from www.spec.org as of January 9, 2007.

Certified Results			16,407 SPECweb2005
Reference Date:			January 9, 2007
Systems:			1 x Sun Fire T2000
Total # Processors:			1 chip / 8 cores/chip (4 threads/core)
GHz Processor:			Sun UltraSPARC T1 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 11/06
Software:			Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 6.1 SP5 64-bit
Storage/network:			3 internal 73GB 10K SAS drives 1 PCI-X Sun PCI Dual Fibre Channel 2GB HBA, 1 Sun StorEdge 3510 RAID, 2 Sun StorEdge 3510 JBOD, 3 Sun PCI-E Dual GigE UTP adapters