Friday Jul 20, 2007
SPARC is leading the world: World Record UltraSPARC T1 (Niagara) and UltraSPARC IV+ on SPECjAppServer. I had all of the details in yesterday's posting.
But I quickly skimmed over a couple of important details that I'll talk
a bit more about in this posting.
To keep all of the application servers fully supported one requires
a fast database server and efficient database software. For this
benchmark Sun used IBM DB2 9.1 database. In the past Sun has
set many world records with this database software on a variety of
benchmarks.
Another thing of note is that Sun only used 24 dual-core UltraSPARC IV+
chips in comparison to 32 dual-core Itanium2 chips. That means
a lot less SPARC chips than Itanium chips and Sun gives more performance.
Also note I only use chips and cores to denote the configuration. Performance
per core is very misleading in every comparison between vendors.
In the application tier sun used ten Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules
(10 US T1 chips total) to get 8% better performance than HP's 6 rx6600 servers (24 Itanium2 chips total). Sun fits 10 blades in 10RU versus HP's
42RU (6x Four dual-core Itanic2 in 7RU), Sun uses a lot less hardware and
a FOURTH less space!
See how totally misleading if we compared cores thinking
cores were equivalent. Sun has 80 cores in the appl tier in this config versus HP's
48 cores in the application tier. Price/core is very different in EVERY vendor. Performance
per core a smoke and mirrors marketing trick that should not be used
by any honorable vendor.
World Record UltraSPARC T1 SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. The Sun Blade 6000 systems extremely
flexible you can have SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based
server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Wow!
Ten Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules delivered a World Record result of
8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, this result use (1x
UltraSPARC T1 1.4GHz) and connected to a Sun Fire E6900 Database System
(24x UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz).
For more info and yesterday's posting see
http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/world_record_ultrasparc_t1_specjappserver2004
Disclosure Statement:
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 07/18/2007.
SPECjAppServer2004 10 Sun Fire T6300 (80 cores, 10 chips) and 1 Sun Fire
E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 6 HP rx6600 (48 cores, 24 chips) and HP 9000 Superdome (64 cores, 32 chips) 7629.45 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 10 Sun Fire X8420 (80 cores, 40 chips) and 1 Sun Fire
E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 7174.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 11 HP rx3600 (44 cores, 22 chips) and HP 9000 Superdome (64 cores, 32 chips) 6812.79 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 20 IBM xSeries BladeCenter HS20 (40 cores, 40 chips) and IBM eServer p5 570 (16 cores, 8 chips) 4368.02 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
| Certified Results |
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8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard |
| Reference Date: |
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Jul 18, 2007 |
| Systems: |
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10 x Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules |
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1 x Sun Fire E6900, 96GB
4 x Sun StorageTek SE3510 FC Array
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| Processor/GHz of Server: |
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10 x UltraSPARC T1 1.4 GHz |
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24 x UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz |
| Operating System: |
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Solaris 10 8/07, Solaris Containers |
| Software: |
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BEA WebLogic 10.0 Advantage Edition |
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IBM DB2 9.1 Enterprise Edition |
| JVM: |
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J2SE 5.0 update 12 |
Thursday Jul 19, 2007
World Record UltraSPARC T1 SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. The Sun Blade 6000 systems extremely
flexible you can have SPARC, AMD Opteron, and Intel Xeon processor-based
server modules, as well as the Solaris, Linux, and Windows operating systems.
Wow!
Ten Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules delivered a World Record result of
8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, this result use (1x
UltraSPARC T1 1.4GHz) and connected to a Sun Fire E6900 Database System
(24x UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz).
The ten Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules (10 US T1 chips total) demonstrated
8% better performance over the best HP result of 7629.45 SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard which used 6 rx6600 servers (24 Itanium2 chips total).
Sun's benchmark used IBM DB2 9.1 on the Sun Fire E6900 equipped with
1.95GHz UltraSPARC IV+ to deliver this world record result.
By comparison the HP result used 32 dual-core 1.6GHz Itanium2 Superdome.
There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark.
This result shows the Sun Blade 6000 Modular Server (10 US T1 chips total)
with 89% better performance over the IBM result of
4368.02 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard using 20 IBM XSeries
BladeCenter HS20 blades (40 Xeon chips total) for the application servers
and eServer p5 570 for the database.
Sun's benchmark result demonstrates that the Sun Blade T6300 and
Sun Fire E6900 running the Solaris 10 Operating system can support
50,000 concurrent users accessing J2EE applications.
Sun's result highlights the performance benefits of the latest BEA Weblogic
Server release 10.0 on Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules.
The Sun Fire T6300 result is also an example of J2EE Server Consolidation.
The result was obtained using 2 BEA Weblogic application server instances
per blade, with each instance running in a separate Solaris Container.
SPECjAppServer2004 top results (bigger is better)
| |
SPECjAppServer2004
JOPS@Standard |
J2EE Server |
DB Server |
| Sun |
8253.21 |
1x Sun Blade 6000 (10 x T6300)
80 cores, 10 chips @ 1.4 GHz US-T1
BEA WebLogic 10.0 |
1 x Sun Fire E6900
48 cores, 24 chips @ 1.95 GHz US-IV+
IBM DB2 9.1 |
| HP |
7629.45 |
6x HP rx6600
48 cores, 24 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itaniun2
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x 9000 Superdome
64 cores, 32 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| Sun |
7174.56 |
1x Sun Blade 8000 (10 x X8420)
80 cores, 40 chips @ 2.8 GHz AMD 8220
BEA WebLogic 9.2 |
1 x Sun Fire E6900
48 cores, 24 chips @ 1.8 GHz US-IV+
IBM DB2 8.2.6 |
| HP |
6812.79 |
11 x HP rx3600
44 cores, 22 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2 |
1 x 9000 Superdome
64 cores, 32 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2
Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2 |
| IBM |
4368.02 |
2x IBM HS20
40 cores, 40 chips @ 3.6 GHz Intel Xeon
WebSphere 6.1 |
1 x IBM p570
16 cores, 8 chips @ 1.9 GHz IBM Power5
IBM DB2 v9.1 |
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:
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The web container, including servlets and JSPs
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The EJB container
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EJB2.0 Container Managed Persistence
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JMS and Message Driven Beans
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Transaction management
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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:
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 07/18/2007.
SPECjAppServer2004 10 Sun Fire T6300 (80 cores, 10 chips) and 1 Sun Fire
E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 6 HP rx6600 (48 cores, 24 chips) and HP 9000 Superdome (64 cores, 32 chips) 7629.45 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 10 Sun Fire X8420 (80 cores, 40 chips) and 1 Sun Fire
E6900 (48 cores, 24 chips) 7174.56 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 11 HP rx3600 (44 cores, 22 chips) and HP 9000 Superdome (64 cores, 32 chips) 6812.79 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPECjAppServer2004 20 IBM xSeries BladeCenter HS20 (40 cores, 40 chips) and IBM eServer p5 570 (16 cores, 8 chips) 4368.02 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
| Certified Results |
|
8253.21 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard |
| Reference Date: |
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Jul 18, 2007 |
| Systems: |
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10 x Sun Blade T6300 Server Modules |
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1 x Sun Fire E6900, 96GB
4 x Sun StorageTek SE3510 FC Array
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| Processor/GHz of Server: |
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10 x UltraSPARC T1 1.4 GHz |
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24 x UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95 GHz |
| Operating System: |
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Solaris 10 8/07, Solaris Containers |
| Software: |
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BEA WebLogic 10.0 Advantage Edition |
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IBM DB2 9.1 Enterprise Edition |
| JVM: |
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J2SE 5.0 update 12 |
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