BM Seer Facts & Questions from an Anonymous Sun Source

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

[2] Comments
Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 01:07PM Aug 23, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags:

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

[8] Comments
Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 07:07AM Aug 23, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags:

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.

[3] Comments
Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 10:00AM Aug 03, 2007 by BM Seer in Misc
Tags:

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

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 01:22PM Jul 25, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags:

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

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 10:20AM Jul 13, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmark Issues
Tags:

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

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 09:43AM Jul 10, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmark Issues
Tags:

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

[10] Comments
Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 06:06AM Jun 15, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags:

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...

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 03:28PM Apr 03, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
Tags:

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!

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 09:27AM Feb 07, 2007 by BM Seer in Future Technology
Tags:

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

Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
Posted at 06:37AM Jan 31, 2007 by BM Seer in Tuning
Tags:

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

    Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
    Posted at 06:06AM Jan 10, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
    Tags:

    • 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/

    Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
    Posted at 08:17PM Jan 09, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
    Tags:

    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

    Like this post? del.icio.us | furl | slashdot | technorati | digg
    Posted at 03:11PM Jan 09, 2007 by BM Seer in Benchmarks
    Tags:

    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 highe