Oracle & UltraSPARC T1 - Commercial databases and CMT are no problem

Thursday Aug 23, 2007

In the last posting we showed Oracle Database with SAP-SD benchmarks all running on a Sun Fire T2000. As Sun has been saying since Day one of CMT. Major databases are perfectly matched for UltraSPARC T1. By the way Sun has also used Open source databases on benchmarks as well.

We have lots of customers deploying RDBMS on UltraSPARC T1 and planning on UltraSPARC T2 servers. It really works well even though competitors and doubters want to try to say it is special purpose, sorry it isn't.

Here is an opinion:

"Now Sun's T2 is out and it's pretty much the world beater they promised - 30% faster on SPEC throughput than IBM's 4.7 Ghz Dual core Power6 and, more significantly, one third the cost and somewhere between two and three times the throughput of the Itanium. ... anyone still buying HP-UX and Itanium after Rock comes out will be doing it because they hate Sun and are quietly hoping for a miracle, just as DEC's partisans (and HP's own MPE customer base) did before them." -- zdnet's Paul Murphy

Source: "A Dumb prediction: IBM will Buy HP's Unix Customers," By Paul Murphy, zdnet, 08/17/07, http://blogs.zdnet.com/Murphy/?p=941

World Record Single-chip SAP-SD 2-Tier ECC 6.0 Sun Fire T2000

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

news trickles out on Niagara2

Friday Aug 03, 2007

News is starting to trickle out on Niagara2. Sun continues to do revolutionary things that will have huge effect on how we compute. For what has leaked so far see: http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/08/suns_niagara_2.html

At OpenSPARC.net you will find a in-depth presentation of the upcoming Niagara 2 processor: "An 8-core, 64-thread, 64-bit, power efficient SPARC SoC (Niagara2)". The presentation was held at the International Solid State Circuits Conference 2007.

So the question becomes how do we now judge performance of chips with different architectures? One thing that hasn't changed is system performance and system cost. Look at what a system costs compare it against other systems in the same price range.

The computer industry can no longer determine performance based on old dinosaur habits. Remember when vendors determined all performance by GHz. Then remember back in '04 when Intel quite naming processors by GHz... they realized that GHz is only part of the overall equation for processor performance. What does that equation look like in very rough terms?

performance = GHz * number-of-cores * number-of-threads-per-core * efficiency-of-design * other * software efficiency

...so if you compare performance between different designs by any of these factors alone (example: perf/core, perf/Ghz, perf/thread) you are being very misleading!

Case in point, IBM loves to talk about perf/core, but they avoid telling everyone that they lead the industry, by several factors in price/core!

The IT jungle says: "340,000. It costs $17,700 to activate a core, so pushing it to eight cores costs another $141,600." So on a per core basis that means POWER6 costs $60,000/core. Actually I've estimated that in a system with memory an IBM power6 system costs $65K/core to $130K/core! Any customer needs to do their own pricing.

So comparing systems of dramatically different cost-per-core on a per-core basis NO LONGER MAKES ANY SENSE! No wonder IBM wants to stilt comparisons and avoid pricing! The only other clues on list price on power6 is here.

Open source Software - Wow!: SPECjAppServer2004 Sun Fire T2000/X4200 $/Perf Leadership

Wednesday Jul 25, 2007

Two Sun Fire X4200's each equipped with 2 2.8 GHz Opteron processors running the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 and one Sun Fire T2000 equipped with 1 UltraSPARC 1.2 GHz T1 processor running PostgreSQL 8.2 database obtained a score of 813.73 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. This result is 3 times better price/performance than the latest HP dual-core Itanium2 results with Oracle (note3).

Benchmark was run entirely on Open Source software: GlassFish, PostgreSQL and Solaris.

Sun is the only vendor that has published results using Open Source databases (MySQL and PostgreSQL), demonstrating full commitment to these price-efficient database alternatives.

Sun Fire T2000 shows it stregths as a database server using PostgresSQL.

Competitive Landscape

SPECjAppServer2004 Results Page SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better), $/SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (smaller is better)

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server	$/JOPS
Sun	813.73	2x Sun Fire X4200 8 cores, 4 chips @ 2.8 GHz Opteron 2220SE SJSAS 9.1	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T1 PostgreSQL 8.2	$71 (1)
HP	874.17	1x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.2	1x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g	$211 (2)

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: 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 2 Sun Fire X4200 (8 cores, 4 chips) 813.73 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; 1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 07/23/2007.

Pricing obtained from publicly available sources.

Results Summary

Certified Results			813.73 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			July 23, 2007
Systems:			1 x Sun Fire T2000, 16GB
			2 x Sun Fire X4200, 8GB
Total Number Processors:			1, 4
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T1 1.2 GHz
			Opteron 2220SE 2.8 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 11/06
Software:			Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Platform Edition
			PostgreSQL 8.2
JVM:			J2SE 6.0 update 02

Pricing Substantiation

(note1) Sun ... all prices from www.sun.com

• App server X4200 -- # of units:2 -- $16,290.00
• DB server T2000 -- # of units: 1 -- $21,495.00
• 4 GB dual FC adapter -- # of units: 1 -- $2,530.00
• StorageTek 2540 -- # of units:1 -- $17,110
• Postgres -- $0
• Glassfish -- $0
• Total: $57,425
• $/JOPS: $70.57

(note2) HP ... prices from URL's indicated below

• rx2660 w/16GB -- #of units: 2 -- $37990.00
  http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/cache/251028-0-0-0-121.html?ERL=true
• 8GB DDR2 (AD276A) -- # of units:1 -- $3273.00
  http://www.needthese.com/DATARAM_DRH2660/8GB_513305.htm
• Dual port 4GB FC adapter (AB379A) -- #of units: 2 -- see... www.hp.com (HP online store)
  
• Modular SAN Array 1000 (201723-B22) -- #of units:2 -- $12998.00
  www.hp.com (HP online store)
• 72GB 15k driver (286778-B22) -- #of units:28 -- $12292.00
  www.hp.com (HP online store)
• Oracle DB 10g Enterprise Edition -- # of units:2 -- see...
  http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html
• Oracle DB Horizontal Partition option -- # of units:2 -- see...
  http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html
• Oracle App server 10g Java edition, see...
  http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html
• Total: $184,543.00
• $/JOPS: $211.10

(note3) Sun to HP $/JOPS: 211.10 / 70.57 = 2.99x -> 3x

World Record Sun Fire T2000 for 2-node configuration with 1-Socket Application Server

Friday Jul 13, 2007

A Sun Fire T2000 equipped with one UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.4 GHz running the Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 and one Sun Fire T2000 equipped with 1 UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.0 GHz running the DB2 9.1 Univeral Database obtained a score of 883.66 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. This also demonstrates the power of the Sun Fire T2000 as a database server.

The Sun Java Systems Application Server 9.1 established a new World Record on a single-socket application server machine.

This is the highest ever SPECjAppServer score by any application server running on a single Sun appserver machine, beating BEA's score on the same appserver machine by 10%.

Sun's open-source application server gives you 10% better performance than BEA at a fraction of the licensing and support cost.

This result demonstrates the superior performance of Sun's open-source application server with a result that is 10% higher than Weblogic on identical hardware, and substantially higher than other application server vendors on T2000 hardware.

This result also demonstrates the superior performance of the Sun Fire T2000 as a database server, using IBM DB2 Universal Database software.

SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better)

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server
Sun	883.66	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T1 SJSAS 9.1	1x Sun Fire T2000 6 cores, 1 chip @ 1.0 GHz US-T1 IBM DB2 9.1
Sun	801.70	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T1 BEA WebLogic 9.2	1x Sun Fire T2000 6 cores, 1 chip @ 1.0 GHz US-T1 IBM DB2 8.2.6
Oracle	733.22	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T1 Oracle AS 10g Release 10.1.3.2	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T1 Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.2

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 Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (6 cores, 1 chip) 883.66 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (6 cores, 1 chip) 801.70 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 733.22 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 07/10/2007.

Certified Results			883.66 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			Jul 10, 2007
Systems:			1 x Sun Fire T2000, 64GB
			1 x Sun Fire T1000, 8GB, 2 x Sun StorEdge 3320 FC Array
Total Number Processors:			1, 1
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T1 1.4 GHz
			UltraSPARC T1 1 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Software:			Sun Java System Application Server 9.1 Platform Edition
			IBM DB2 9.1 Enterprise Edition
JVM:			J2SE 6.0 update 02

T2000 Try and buy: Customers see value

Tuesday Jul 10, 2007

“With Sun’s Try and Buy program, it was easy to try a Sun Fire T2000 server—and the result was a 50 percent improvement in key customer service processing times.”
— Randy Mills, Supervisor of Information Systems, Benton Public Utility District

Sun's Try and Buy program allows customer to see the same world record performance and other advantages of the Sun Fire T2000 as Sun shows in benchmarks. Yes measured data from Sun, measured data on their code. (Sun doesn't point to peaks like other vendors).

You can read more about the Benton experience at: http://www.sun.com/customers/servers/benton.xml

At Sun we really like measured data on our systems, that is what we show in benchmarks, measured performance, measured wattages, etc. Then using this data you can justify actually trying your application/workload at your location.

Postscript for those that read the IBM blog

IBM really twists things around, when reading Official IBM benchmark blog http://www-03.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/, IBM said:

Even the IBM p5-550Q result from 2005 surpasses the Sun T2000 in Lotus NotesBench D7 R6iNotes. Sun's T2000 result has 1.5 times worse price/performance and achieves only 5.5% more performance with double the cores and 2.6 times more memory than the IBM System x3650.
Did you see IBM 'bait and switch' (it was quick), they almost made the p550Q look 1.5x $/perf and 6% more performance.

Let's break it down. 8-core IBM p550Q is 2-chips and more expensive (when you configure the same amount of memory). Even in this benchmark IBM p550Q was 12% worse price/performance, and the Sun Fire T2000 was only 3% slower. Sun configured this with 64GB just because we could. If you really want to see pricing comparisons, take a look at IBM prices for 64GB in in IBM p550Q or IBM x3650. T2000 requires no more memory than any other processor implementation.

The Sun Fire T2000 Server consumed 2.5x less power than the IBM p550Q, and only half the space of the IBM system, adding up to 5X higher SWaP.

IBM even continues to avoid web benchmarks on POWER5 & POWER6, why????

Note: this isn't an official benchmark blog, I just enjoy getting information out anonymously.

DISCLOSURES (note that IBM typically doesn't list all of this required info, why?)

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire T2000(1chip, 8cores/chip@1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1, 4threads/core, 64GB), 4 partitions, Solaris[TM] 10 U3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.2, 23200 users, $4.48per user, 19518 NotesMark tpm, 692ms avg rt. , IBM eServer 550Q, 8x1.5GHz POWER5, 32GB, 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.3, Lotus Domino 7.0, 24000 users, $5.97 per user, 20108 NotesMark tpm, 932 ms avg rt., IBM X3650, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 24GB, 3 partitions, SUSE9, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 22000 users, $3.47 per user, 18989 NotesMark tpm, 3056ms avg rt.,More info: www.notesbench.org as of 7/11/07.

The Sun Fire T2000 actually measured wattage during this benchmark run, IBM avoids measured wattage (why?), so we must use the following:
IBM p5 550Q power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the maximum Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted at ftp:/ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF

IBM power6 chip already 3rd fastest

Friday Jun 15, 2007

IBM statement no longer true. IBM press release proudly stated 3 weeks ago that "IBM Unleashes World's Fastest Chip in Powerful New Computer". Now the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 chip is 10% faster than the IBM POWER6 chip.

The IBM p570 Power6 4.7GHz 1 chip/2core/4threads had a score of 88,089 SPECjbb2005 bops. It is also very clear that you can not compare systems performance on a per core basis. You'd have to do it by system price, go ahead and price out a 4RU p570 and a 2RU T2000, or check the wattage. Also as you can see IBM's faster GHz and fewer very expensive cores end up delivering slower system performance.

SPECjbb2005 (ordered by perf, bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second, bigger is better)

System	Date	Processors		Performance
		(Chips, Cores, Threads)	GHz / Type	SPECjbb 2005 bops	JVMs	SPECjbb 2005 bops/JVM
Dell PowerEdge 860	1/07	(1, 4, 4)	2.4 Xeon	112092	1	112092
Sun Blade T6300	6/07	(1, 8, 32)	1.4 US-T1	96523	4	24121
IBM p570	6/07	(1, 2, 4)	4.7 POWER6	88089	1	88089
Fujitsu TX150	6/07	(1, 2, 2)	2.66 Xeon	70324	1	70324
Dell PowerEdge 840	10/06	(1, 2, 2)	2.66 Xeon	52002	1	52002
Fujitsu RX100	10/06	(1, 2, 2)	2.4 Xeon	49892	1	49892

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 Fire T6300 (1 chip, 8 cores) 96523 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24131 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (1 chip, 2 cores) 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Fujitsu TX150 (1 chip, 2 cores) 70324 SPECjbb2005 bops, 70324 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Dell PowerEdge 860 (1 chip, 4 cores) 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops, 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Dell PowerEdge 840 (1 chip, 2 cores) 52052 SPECjbb2005 bops, 52052 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Fujitsu RX100 (1 chip, 2 cores) 49892 SPECjbb2005 bops, 49892 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. IBM p570 Power6 (1 chip, 2 cores, 4 threads) 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 6/14/2007 on http://www.spec.org.

Results
	Sun Blade T6300:		96523 SPECjbb2005 bops
			24131 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
	Reference Date:		June 6, 2007
Systems:			Sun Blade T6300, 32GB
Total Number Processors:			1
Processor/GHz of Server:			US-T1 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
JVM:			Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_02

See Also

Sun Press Release

Record SPECjAppServer Sun Fire E2900 / Sun Fire T2000 combo

Tuesday Apr 03, 2007

World Record Performance on 2-node Configuration! One Sun Fire E2900 equipped with 12 UltraSPARC IV+ at 1.95GHz running the BEA Weblogic 9.2 Application Server and one Sun Fire T2000 equipped with one UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.2 GHz running the DB2 8.2 Univeral Database achieved 1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.

This SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark result is a World record for application server performance on a single system.

The Sun Fire E2900 result is an example of J2EE Server Consolidation. The result was obtained using 6 BEA Weblogic application server instances, each running in a separate Solaris Container.

The Sun Fire E2900 and Sun Fire T2000 performed 7% better than the cluster of 6x HP DL380 G4 running BEA Weblogic 9 and 1x HP rx8620 server running Oracle 10g database.

The Sun Fire E2900 and Sun Fire T2000 performed 32% better than the cluster of 5x IBM eServer xSeries 365 servers running IBM Websphere 6 and 2x IBM eServer xSeries 365 running DB2 8.2 database.

This result also demonstrates the superior performance of the Sun Fire T2000 as a database server, using IBM DB2 Universal Database software. The UltraSPARC-T1 based T2000 Sun server supports a higher SPECjAppServer2004 workload (JOPS) than one HP rx8620 [16x 1.5 GHz Itanium 2] using Oracle 10g or two IBM xSeries 365 [8x 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon MP] using IBM DB2 v8.2.

SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better) 04/03/2007

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server
Sun	1781.37	1x Sun Fire E2900 24 cores, 12 chips @ 1.95 GHz US-IV+ BEA WebLogic 9.2	1x Sun Fire T2000 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T1 IBM DB2 8.2.6
HP	1664.36	6x HP DL380 12 cores, 12 chips @ 3.6 GHz Xeon BEA WebLogic 9.0	1x HP rx8620 16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.5 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4
IBM	1343.47	5x IBM eServer xSeries 365 20 cores, 20 chips @ 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon MP WebSphere 6.0	2x IBM eServer xSeries 365 8 cores, 8 chips @ 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon MP IBM DB2 v8.2
Sun	1781.47	5x Sun Fire X4100 20 cores, 10 chips @ 2.4 GHz AMD 280 BEA WebLogic 9.0	1x Sun Fire E6900 32 cores, 16 chips @ 1.2 GHz US-IV Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4
HP	1266.42	1x HP rx6600 8 cores, 4 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 BEA WebLogic 9.1	1x HP rx8620 16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4

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
1 Sun Fire E2900 (24 cores, 12 chips) and 1 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
6 HP DL380 (12 cores, 12 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1664.36 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 IBM xSeries 365 (20 cores, 20 chips) and 2 IBM xSeries 365 (8 cores, 8 chips) 1343.47 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
1 HP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
5 Sun Fire X4100 (20 cores, 10 chips) and 1 Sun Fire E6900 (32 cores, 16 chips) 1781.47 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 04/03/2007.

Results Summary

Certified Results			1781.37 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			Apr 3, 2007
Systems:			1 x Sun Fire E2900, 12x 1.95 GHz UltraSPARC IV+
			1 x Sun Fire T2000, 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1
# Processors:			12, 1
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz
			UltraSPARC T1 1.2 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 11/06
Software:			BEA WebLogic 9.2 Advantage Edition
			IBM DB2 8.2.6 Enterprise Editon
JVM:			J2SE 5.0 update 11

... yes more coming even tomorrow and beyond, keep checking...

Niagara2 early press

Wednesday Feb 07, 2007

CNET news has some press about Sun's next CMT technology.

"We have silicon back (from manufacturer Texas Instruments) and Victoria Falls systems running in the labs at Sun at full speed, full performance," John Fowler, executive vice president of systems, said via Webcast Tuesday. "In the first half of calendar 2008, we will introduce products based on Victoria Falls."

You can read more at:
http://news.com.com/Sun+dual-Niagara+servers+due+in+2008/2100-1010_3-6156883.html

...all I can say is fast to production, and fast in the lab!

Blueprint for UltraSPARC T1 success

Wednesday Jan 31, 2007

Sun Blueprints are technical best practices, derived from the real-world experience of Sun experts. The whitepapers are available for free! downloads. You can buy blueprint books on other topics.

A new one of note is the updated: "Developing and Tuning Applications on UltraSPARC T1 Chip Multithreading Systems" written by Denis Sheehan. For more info see: http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0107/819-5144.html

1.4 GHz Sun Fire T2000 Lotus World Record per-socket performance and Perf/watt

Wednesday Jan 10, 2007

Lotus Domino NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire T2000 Lotus World Record per-socket performance and Perf/watt

The Sun FireT2000 1.4GHz US T1 using Lotus Domino 7.0.2 mail server delivered world record results with best per-socket performance of 23200 and world record performance/watt for the Lotus[R] R6iNotes on Domino mail HTTP based R6iNotes benchmark.

• The Sun Fire T2000 is 22% faster with 25% faster response times than the latest HP DL380G5 based on two 3GHz dual-core Intel 5160 (WoodCrest) running Microsoft Windows Server 2003. This translates to 2.4x higher performance per socket.

• The Sun Fire T2000 delivers this performance while consuming nearly three times less power, adding up to 3.4x higher Performance per Watt and SWaP. While the HP system achieved lower price/performance, for many customers, this would be offset by the higher energy consumption of the system.

• When compared to IBM's latest p5+ 550Q server, based on 2 x Quad Core p5+ processors and the AIX operating system, the Sun Fire T2000 was able to deliver comparable performance with 35% faster response times, and 2x higher Performance per Socket.

• Also, the Sun Fire T2000 Server consumed 2.5x less power, and only half the space of the IBM system, adding up to 5X higher SWaP.

• In addition to the power, cooling and space savings, the Sun Fire T2000 also delivered one third superior price / performance than IBM system.

  Lotus Domino 7.0 NotesBench R6iNotes Performance Chart (in decreasing #Users order)

  System	$/User	Users	NotesMark	#Partitions	Response
  Sun Fire V890 8xUltraSPARC IV+ 1800MHz Solaris10	$7.19	40000	33862	4	324 ms
  IBM eServer Power5 550Q 8x1.5GHz POWER5, AIX 5L V5.3	$5.97	24000	20108	4	932 ms
  Sun Fire T2000 1xUltraSPARC T1 1400MHz Solaris 10	$4.48	23200	19518	4	692 ms
  IBM X3650, 4x3.0GHz Xeon SUSE 9	$3.47	22000	18989	4	>3 Sec
  Sun Fire T2000 1xUltraSPARC T1 1200MHz Solaris 10HW2	$3.94	19000	16061	4	400 ms
  HP DL380G5, 2x3.0GHz Xeon 5160, Windows Server 2003	$3.15	19000	15750	3	868 ms
  HP Proliant DL580 G3 4x3.0GHz Xeon, Windows Server 2003	$4.29	18500	15953	4	434 ms

  Complete benchmark results may be found at the Lotus NotesBench website http://www.notesbench.org. Benchmark version is Notesbench 6.5 running on Lotus Domino 6.5.1

Benchmark Description

The benchmark simulates active users accessing their Domino[R] R6iNotes mail files via standard Web browser. Each simulated user periodically sends, retrieves, and deletes a specified number of e-mail messages from a browser. An average user runs this script four times per hour.

The R5iNotes and R6iNotes workloads, using the Lotus Domino Mail server (R5 or R6) are both HTTP based workloads. R6iNotes is heavier with added features and larger mail files using the MIME format.

The Lotus Webmail and iNotes workloads are NOT comparable.

see also:

NotesBench Results on Ideas International

NotesBench Website

Disclosure Statement:

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire T2000(1chip, 8cores/chip@1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1, 4threads/core, 64GB), 4 partitions, Solaris[TM] 10 U3, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.2, 23200 users, $4.48per user, 19518 NotesMark tpm, 692ms avg rt. , IBM eServer 550Q, 8x1.5GHz POWER5, 32GB, 4 partitions, AIX 5L V5.3, Lotus Domino 7.0, 24000 users, $5.97 per user, 20108 NotesMark tpm, 932 ms avg rt., HP DL380G5, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon 5160, 6GB, 3 partitions, Windows Server 2003, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 19000 users, $3.15 per user, 15750 NotesMark tpm, 868ms avg rt., More info: www.notesbench.org

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 IBM p5 550Q power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the maximum Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted at: ftp:/ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF

SunFire T2000 1.4GHz server Power consumption has been taken during the full benchmark execution.

Results Summary

Audited Results
	Users:		23200
	NotesMark:		19518
	Price Performance:		$4.48 $/User
	Price Performance:		$5.33 $ /NotesMark
	Response:		692 ms
Systems:			One Sun Fire T2000
Number Processors:			1 chip, 8cores/chip@1.4GHz, 4threads/core
Speed of Processors:			1400 MHz
Storage:			3 x SS3320 (12x73GB)
Notes Version:			Lotus Domino 7.0.2
	#Domino Partition		4
Operating System:			Solaris 10 U3
Cost:			$104,051.75.00
Other Performance Metrics
	Users/CPU:		23200
	Users/Core		2900

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Cool Tools shipping preinstalled on 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1

Tuesday Jan 09, 2007

Today, I've posted a few new results on the Sun UltraSPARC T1 with faster processor (1.4GHz) and larger memory (up to 64GB).

Lots of new record perf, price/perf, SWaP numbers.

But I forgot to mention that the UltraSPARC T1 servers (Sun Fire T2000) will also ship with many Cool Tools preinstalled. This way many customers can get to better performance if they have problems. For more on Cool Tools see: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/

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

NEW 1.4GHz Sun Fire T2000 sets World Record 2-Node SPECjAppServer

Tuesday Jan 09, 2007

The new 1.4GHz Sun Fire T2000 achieved 801.70 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS and beats the HP Itanium-2 rx3600 two-node result of 618.22 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS by 29%. This is the dual-core 1.6GHz Itanium2!

The T2000 result also beats the IBM two-node result using the p5 505Q and p5 550 of 618.38 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard by 29%.

One Sun Fire T2000 server equipped with one 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1 running BEA Weblogic 9.2 Advantage Edition and one Sun Fire T2000 equipped with a UltraSPARC T1 processor at 1.0 GHz running IBM DB2 8.2.6 delivered a result of 801.70 JOPS@Standard for best performance of single socket servers in the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.

IBM POWER5+ and Itanium2 Dual-cores also take a lot more power and space:

When compared to HP's rx4640 equipped with Itanium2 and running Linux, the T2000 delivers nearly 1.5X higher performance in 4x less power and half the space, delivering over 6X higher performance per watt and 12x SWaP.

The Sun Fire T2000 delivers nearly 1.3X higher performance in nearly 3x less power and half the space, resulting in nearly 3.5X higher performance per watt and 7x SWaP when compared to HP's rx3600 equipped with two of the latest dual core Itanium2 processors and running HP-UX11i.

This result highlights the performance benefits of the latest BEA Weblogic Server 9.2 release on Sun Fire servers. It also shows the best way to get superior performance on IBM DB2 software is to use the Sun T2000 server.

This benchmark result demonstrates that the Sun Fire T2000 running the Solaris 10 Operating system can support thousands of concurrent users accessing Web Services applications.

SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart - JOPS@Standard
c/c = cores/chip.

	JOPS@ Standard	J2EE Server	App SW	DB Server	DB SW
Sun	801.70	1 x Sun Fire T2000 1.4GHz US-T1 8 core/1 chip (8 c/c)	BEA WebLogic 9.2	1 x Sun Fire T2000 1.0GHz US-T1 6 core/1 chips (6 c/c)	IBM DB2 8.2.6
IBM	618.38	1 x IBM p505Q 1.65GHz POWER5+ 4 core/2 chips (2 c/c)	IBM WebSphere 6.1	1 x IBM p550 2.1GHz POWER5+ 4 cores/2 chips (2 c/c)	IBM DB2 8.2
HP	618.22	1 x HP rx3600 1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/2 chip (2 c/c)	BEA WebLogic 9.2	1 x HP rx4640 1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c)	Oracle 10g
Sun	615.64	1 x Sun Fire T2000 1.2GHz US-T1 8 core/1 chip (8 c/c)	BEA WebLogic 9.0	1 x Sun Fire V490 1.5GHz US-IV+ 8 core/4 chips (2 c/c)	Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4
HP	542.17	1 x rx4640 1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c)	BEA WebLogic 9.1	1 x rx4640 1.6GHz Itanium2 4 core/4 chip (1 c/c)	Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4
IBM	404.88	1 x p5 505 2.1GHz POWER5+ 2 cores/1 chip (2 c/c)	IBM WebSphere V6.1	1 x p4 505Q 1.65GHz POWER5+ 4 core/2 chips (2 c/c)	IBM DB2 v8.2

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 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 801.70 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 IBM p5 505Q (4 cores, 2 chips) 618.38 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 HP rx4600 (4 cores, 4 chip) 542.18 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 IBM p5 505 (2 cores, 1chip) 404.88 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 HP rx3600 (4 cores, 2 chips) 618.22 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. All results from www.spec.org as of 01/09/07.
HP rx4640 server specifications 10/19/05 from http://www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/entry_level/rx4640/
HP rx4640 power rating of 1,303 watts taken from HP Enterprise Configurator 10/19/05 from http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/catalog-hpintegrity.asp. System configured with Redundant Power, 4 x 1.6GHz Itanium processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 0 x PCI cards and 2 x 73GB HDDs.
IBM specifications from Fact and Features report, 1/9/06: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF. IBM power is based on the reported maximum power consumption.
HP rx3600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum output power supply rating reported here on 11/14/06: http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/cache/387834-0-0-225-121.html
Sun Fire T2000 server power consumption taken from measurements made during the benchmark run.

Certified Result in a two-system configuration:

• Certified Result: 801.70 JOPS@Standard
• Reference Date: Jan 9, 2007

Application Server:

• Sun Fire T2000:
• one 1.4 GHz 8-core UltraSPARC T1
• 64 GB memory (16x4GB)
• Solaris 10 11/06
• BEA WebLogic 9.2 Advantage Edition
• JVM J2SE 5.0 Update 10

Database Server:

• Sun Fire T2000:
• one 1.0 GHz 6-core UltraSPARC T1 processor
• 8 GB memory
• 2x Sun StorEdge SE3320 SCSI Array
• Solaris 10 6/06
• IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2.6

Saving money going green with T2000

Tuesday Jan 09, 2007

"Power is now 6% to 7% of datacentre costs compared to 1% a few...years ago,” Ken Harvey CIO of HSBC.

So HSBC is looking at a variety of ways to save money, one of those is implementing with the Sun Fire T2000.

"Any savings on power consumption will have an immediate financial gain for the bank. HSBC is rolling out Sun T2000 servers, which are said to deliver up to three times the throughput at 30% less power and cooling costs compared to alternative server hardware."

you can read more in the Computer Weekly article 4-Jan-07: http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/04/220980/how-to-make-money-by-going-green.htm

It is important to note that at high utilisation and with lots of memory the Sun Fire T2000 out-distances the Woodcrest-based systems and others by a lot, see previous blog entries on that in this "Wattage-Power" category.

Expect more news on the Sun Fire T2000 later today...