Extremely Fast Pattern Matching on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220/T5240

Friday Aug 08, 2008

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 / T5240 beats IBM Cell Broadband Engine with significantly easier application code development!

Pattern matching or string searching are important to a variety of commercial, government and HPC applications. One of the core functions needed for text identification algorithms in data repositories is real-time string searching. For this benchmark, both IBM and Sun used the Aho-Corasick algorithm for string searching.

Note: Got this from an internal website on info that is going public.

The 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 performed string searching at a rate of 6.12 GB/s (49.0 Gbit/sec) whereas the 2-chip IBM Cell Broadband Engine DD3 Blade performed string searching at a rate of 0.48 GB/s (3.8 Gbit/sec).

The 1-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 performed string searching at a rate of 3.08 GB/s (24.6 Gbits/s).

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 demonstrated a 2x speedup over the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220.

The Aho-Corasick algorithm as deployed on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine DD3 Blade required substantial optimization and tuning to achieve the reported performance, whereas on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 or T5240 only a basic implementation of the algorithm and a simple compilation were needed.

Performance Summary

System	Throughput (GBits/sec)	Chips	Cores	GHz
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240	49.0	2	16	1.4
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220	24.6	1	8	1.4
IBM Cell Broadband Engine DD3 Blade	3.8	2	16	3.2

IBM results are obtained from Figure 7(d) of IEEE Computer, Volume 41, Number 4, pp. 42-50, April 2008. Sun benchmark results as of 08/05/2008.

Benchmark Description

One of the core functions needed for text identification algorithms in data repositories is real-time string searching. This string searching benchmark demonstrates the usefulness of Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors for both ease of code creation and speed of code execution.

In IEEE Computer, Volume 41, Number 4, pp. 42-50, April 2008, IBM describes a variant of the Aho-Corasick string searching algorithm that uses deterministic finite automata. The algorithm first constructs a graph that represents a dictionary, then walks that graph using successive input characters from a text file. Each "state" in the graph includes a state transition table (STT) that is accessed using the next input character from the text file to determine the address of the next state in the graph. IBM defines an automaton as a two-step loop that: (1) obtains the address of the next state from the STT, and (2) fetches the next state in the graph.

IBM reports the performance of its Cell Broadband Engine (CBE) to execute this algorithm to search a 4.4 MB version of the King James Bible using a dictionary of the 20,000 most used words in the English language (average word length of 7.59 characters). Each of the 8 synergistic processing elements (SPEs) of each of the two CBEs executes 16 automata, for a total of 256 automata. All automata and hence all SPEs access a single, shared dictionary.

IBM describes elaborate optimizations of the Aho-Corasick algorithm, including state shuffling, state replication, alphabet shuffling and state caching. These optimizations were required to: (1) overcome "memory congestion", i.e., contention amongst the SPEs for access to the shared dictionary, and (2) compensate for the limited local storage that is associated with each SPE. These optimizations were necessary to achieve the performance reported for the CBE DD3 Blade. IBM does not provide references that indicate where to obtain the dictionary and Bible. IBM reports the algorithmic performance in Gbits/s but does not indicate whether an 8-bit byte is extended to 10 bits as required for network transmission.

In order to closely approximate the dictionary and Bible that were used by IBM, Sun used a dictionary of 25,144 English words (the Open Solaris file cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/spell/list) for which the average word length is 8.22 characters, and a 4.6 MB version of the King James Bible (www.patriot.net/users/bmcgin/kjv12.zip). For reporting of results in Gbits/s, the length of a byte is assumed to be 8 bits.

In order to demonstrate the usefulness of Sun's UltraSPARC T2 and T2 Plus processors for both ease of code generation and speed of code execution, Sun implemented the Aho-Corasick algorithm using ANSI C. No optimizations of the algorithm were required to achieve the performance reported for the T5220 and TT5240.

The source code was compiled using the -m64 -xO3 and -xopenmp options. The dictionary is represented using a graph that comprises 187 MB. Each core of the T5220 or T5240 executes 8 automata using one OpenMP thread per automaton. Thus, the T5220 executes 64 total automata and the T5240 executes 128 total automata. All automata and hence all cores access a single, shared dictionary. Access to this dictionary is accelerated by the large, shared L2 caches of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and T5240.

Disclosure Statement:

Pattern Matching: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 2 chips, 16 cores), Solaris 10, Sun C 5.9, 49.0 GBits/sec; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), Solaris 10, Sun C 5.9, 24.6 GBits/sec; IBM Cell Broadband Engine DD3 Blade (2 x 3.2 GHz Cell Broadband Engine, 2 chips, 16 cores), Linux kernel v2.6.16, IBM CBE Software Development Kit v2.1, 3.8 GBits/sec.

System Configuration

Throughput (GBits/sec)			24.6   T5220
			49.0   T5240
Reference Date:			August 5, 2008
Systems:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, T5240
Total Number Processors:			1, 2
Processor/GHz of Server:			1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, T2 Plus
Operating System:			Solaris 10

UltraSPARC T2 Plus: try it yourself on Web, Appl, & Database

Monday Apr 14, 2008

In the last week this blog had talked a lot about the great performance of the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers.

But forget the leading performance, price/performance, watt/perf results, if you want to try it for yourself you can. Sun continues its try-and-buy program and extends it to the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers.

Free 60-day trial program. You pay nothing (Sun even pays the shipping), for details see: http://www.sun.com/tryandbuy/index.jsp (scroll down to find T5240/T5140)

Reminder: Summary of technical index of CMT blogs @ Allan Packer's blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_cmt_goes_multi

I've had several talks with friends at different competitors, and they said they didn't think Sun had it in it to really make a breakthrough in performance, price, and power -- but now they all talk about high-level meetings in their companies (competitors) who are frantically trying to figure out how to counter Sun's offering.

Summary of new CMT

Monday Apr 14, 2008

For a survey of the wide variety of blogs with good technical data on the new UltraSPARC T2 Plus servers (Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140,...), please look at Allan Packer's blog index at:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/sun_s_cmt_goes_multi

SPECjAppServer2004 World Record Single Application Server: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server delivered a World Record single server result of 3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. This result used one Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (two UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4GHz chips) for the application server and a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4GHz chips) for the database server.

This benchmark used the Oracle Application Server 10g and Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition. This benchmark result proves that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server using the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor performs as an oustanding J2EE application server as well as an Oracle 10G OLTP database server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server in the application tier consumed an average of 720 Watts in a 2RU space during the execution of this benchmark. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server in the database tier consumed an average of 670 Watts in a 2RU space during the execution of this benchmark.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 62% better performance over the HP BL460c blade result of 2056.27 JOPS@Standard which used two 3.1 Ghz Xeon X5460 chips.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM p570 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 4.7Ghz IBM POWER6 chips.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier performed within 8% of the Dell result of 3593.58 JOPS@Standard which used two Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers with a total of four 2.8 Ghz Xeon E5440 chips. The two Dell PE1950 servers requires 2RU of rack space and consumes on average 938 Watts of power. One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 21% better SWaP and 18% better power-performance than two Dell PowerEdge 1950 servers combined.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 3.8X better performance than the HP rx2660 result of 874.17 JOPS@Standard which used two 1.6 Ghz Itanium 2 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 2.8X better SWaP and 2.9X better power-performance than the HP rx2660 server.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 5.1X better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 2900 result of 652.95 JOPS@Standard which used two 3.0 Xeon X5160 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 5.7X better SWaP and 2.4X better power-performance than the Dell PowerEdge 2900.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the application tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM Power6 570 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 4.7 Ghz IBM POWER6 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 7.6X better SWaP and 3.9X better power-performance than the IBM Power6 570.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier performed within 8% of the result of 3593.58 JOPS@Standard using the Dell PowerEdge R900 equipped with four 2.9 Ghz Xeon X7350 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 3.1X better SWaP and 50% better power-performance than the Dell R900.

One SPARC Enterprise Sun T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier demonstrated 5.1X better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 2900 result of 652.95 JOPS@Standard which uses two 3.0 GHz Xeon X5160 chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 5.7X better SWaP and 2.4X better power-performance than the Dell PowerEdge 2900.

One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server (two 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chips) in the database tier demonstrated 2.8X better performance over the IBM p5 550 result of 1197.51 JOPS@Standard which used two 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ chips. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server has 6.3X better SWaP and 3.2X better power-performance than the IBM Power5 550.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart as of 04/09/2008. Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org. SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better)

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server
Sun	3331.31	1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 16 cores, 2 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Plus Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3.2	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 16 cores, 2 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Plus Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
HP	2056.27	1x BL460c 8 cores, 2 chips @ 3.1 Xeon X5460 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1x BL480c 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.8 Xeon E5440 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
Sun	2000.92	1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T2 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
Rackable	1672.64	1x Rackable C2002 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 Xeon X5355 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1x Rackable S3118 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.33 Xeon E5345 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.2
IBM	1197.51	1 x IBM p570 4 cores, 2 chips @ 4.7 GHz IBM POWER6 IBM WebSphere 6.1	1 x IBM p550 4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ IBM DB2 v9.1
HP	874.17	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.2
Sybase	652.95	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 Sybase EAS 6.0.2	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 SQLAnywhere 10.0.1
Dell	3593.58	2 x Dell PowerEdge 1950 16 cores, 4 chips @ 2.8 GHz Xeon E5440 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1 x Dell PowerEdge R900 16 cores, 4 chips @ 2.9 GHz Xeon X7350 Oracle 10g DB 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.

Disclosure Statement:

SPECjAppServer2004
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (16 cores, 2 chip) 3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
IBM p570(4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
IBM p550(4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
HP BL460c (8 cores, 2 chips) 2056.27 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) 652.95 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE 1950 (16 cores, 4 chips) 3593.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
Dell PE R900 (4 cores, 4 chips) 3593.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard.
SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Results from www.spec.org as of 04/09/2008.

Power References:

Dell 1950 power rating estimated by applying 70% to the PSU rating reported 03/10/08 for each server:
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r900?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of max input power reported 07/17/07:
http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/12698_div/12698_div.HTML#Technical%20Specifications
Dell power rating 08/24/07 from Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner:
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pedge/topics/en/config_calculator?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU
IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted at
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF
Dell R900 power estimated by applying 70% to the PSU rating, reported 03/10/08 at
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/pedge_r900?c=us&cs=555&l=en&s=biz
IBM p5 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the power numbers published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 3/10/06, posted at
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html

Results Summary

Certified Results			3331.31 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			Apr 9, 2008
Systems:			2 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
Total Number Processors:			2,2
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T2 Plus 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Software:			Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3.2 - Java Edition
			Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3
JVM:			J2SE 6.0 update 6p

but wait, there is more

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

Not only did Sun release a benchamark on the UltraSPARC T2, we also announced a new processor and a new set of new benchmarks. Sun continues to raise the bar.

Check out the press release and news sources. Sun now has an UltraSPARC T2 Plus and new systems!

The press release states:

"Today, the SPARC Enterprise T5140 and T5240 servers are setting the pace with breakthrough performance and beating the competition in performance, price/performance and power and space utilization on business-critical and compute-intensive workloads spanning the entire enterprise – from the edge to the heart of the datacenter."

Sun's even faster SPECweb2005: New Record Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 UltraSPARC T2

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 obtained a world record SPECweb2005 result 41847 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T2 running Solaris 10 with a real world web server Sun Java[TM] System Web Server. This is a 13% improvement over the original result published at www.spec.org in Oct '07. Demonstrating Sun Microsystems continued commitment to performance improvements.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 4% greater performance than the four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with 2.9 GHz Quad-Core Xeon processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 has 1.8X better power-performance and has 3.6X better SWaP.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 41% greater performance than the 2-socket HP ProLiant DL380 G2 with 3.16 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon 5460 processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 has 1.1X better power-performance and has 1.1X better SWaP.

There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECweb benchmark.  The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server is 5.3 times faster than the 4-core IBM p550 1.9GHz POWER5+.

This world record benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 running the Solaris 10 05/08 and Java System Webserver 7.0 Update 3 can support thousands of concurrent secure and non secure web server sessions while allowing larger and more complex Java applications to be run and is an industry leader in web serving.

Cryptography performance is enhanced on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 by using UltraSPARC T2's enhanced on-chip cryptographic hardware with Solaris 10's secured web service software feature. SPECweb2005's banking workload highlights the server's secure web server performance. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (70,000 SPECweb2005_Banking) performance was 35% greater than the 2 socket 3.16 GHz Quad-Core Xeon X5460 HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (51,840 SPECweb2005_Banking).

The HP Proliant DL580 G5 (40,046 SPECweb2005) used seventeen 1GbE networks versus Sun's three 10GbE and two 1GbE, providing much simplified administration.

At peak load, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 had an average power consumption of 617 watts for the three SPECweb2005 benchmark workloads at steady-state.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 04/01/2008. Complete information at: http://www.spec.org website.

System	Chips, Core /Chip	CPU/GHz	OS	Web Server	SPEC web 2005	Bank	Ecom	Supp
Sun SE T5220	1,8	US T2 1.4	Solaris 05/08	Sun JSWS 7.0 Update 3	41847	70000	58000	40000
HP PL DL580 G5	4,4	Xeon QC / 2.993	RedHat Linux	Rock1.4.6/ JRock v1.3.1	40046	71104	55552	36032
Sun SE T5220	1,8	US T2/ 1.4	Solaris 05/08	Sun JSWS 7.0 Update 3	37001	63000	49500	36000
HP PL DL380 G5	2, 4	Xeon QC / 3.16	RedHat Linux	Rock1.4.6/ JRock v1.3.1	29591	51840	46512	23816
HP PL DL580 G5	4, 4	Xeon QC/2.4	RedHat Linux	Rock1.4.1/ JRock v1.2.0	26119	45056	37312	23488
Sun Fire T2000	1,8	US T1/1.4	Solaris 11/06	Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b	16407	25812	24048	15768
Sun Fire T2000	1, 8	US T1/1.2	Solaris	Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b	14001	21500	21500	13160
Sun Fire T1000	1, 8	US T1/1.0	Solaris	Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b	10466	20000	16500	7700
IBM p5 550	2,2	POW5+/ 1.9	SuSE Linux	Zeus4.3r1/ Tomcat5.5.9	7881	12240	11820	7500

Results in BLUE are the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 results currently under SPEC review.

Benchmark Description

SPECweb2005, is the latest industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:

• Measures simultaneous user sessions
• Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
• Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
• Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce (HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
• Simulates browser caching effects
• File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access patterns
  

Example Disclosure Statement:

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 41847 SPECweb2005, submitted to SPEC for review on April 8, 2008. HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 40046 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (8 cores, 2 chips) 29591 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 26119 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 16407 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466 SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Apr 7, 2008.

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server power consumption taken from measurements made during the benchmark run. Power is average measured watts during benchmark run.

HP DL580 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x 36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilisation on 9/10/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp

HP DL380G5 power consumption from HP Power Calculator for system configured with 2 x X5460 3.16GHz processors, redundant PSU, 8 x 4GB DIMMs, 2 x HBAs and 2 x 146GB SAS drives, 80% utilisation on 01/09/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp

Results Summary

Certified Results		41847 SPECweb2005
Reference Date:		April 7, 2008
Systems:		1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
Total Number Processors:		1 chip / 8 cores (8 threads/core)
Processor/GHz of Server:		Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz
Operating System:		Solaris 10 05/08 + patches
Software:		Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 3
		Sun Java[TM] Runtime Environment, Standard Edition 1.6.0_06-p

UltraSPARC T2: Web, App, & Database

Wednesday Apr 09, 2008

Last Wednesday (in my last posting), I showed benchmarks that showed that an UltraSPARC T2 demonstrated great performance in Web, Application, and Database tiers. So it was quite surprising when someone commented "but I can't understand on which market it is great ? "

Wow, no convincing some people. A single chip UltraSPARC T2 can beat 4-socket Quad-cores and do it at less hardware cost when reasonably configured with memory. A single-chip UltraSPARC T2 can out perform super-expensive 4-core IBM power6 (2-chip).

Maybe Sun will just have to raise the bar...

...off to do more work now, then more blogging later this morning.

Siebel CRM 8.0 PSPP UltraSPARC T2 beats POWER6 and sets World Record

Thursday Jan 10, 2008

arrgghhh... I've been asked to show only Sun's results. You must now do your own math with the information posted on Oracle's website: http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/doc/Sun_Siebel8_10000_PSPP_On_Solaris.pdf
http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/doc/IBM_Siebel8_7000_PSPP_On_AIX_POWER6%20Final.pdf

IBM now longer holds the world record and really needs to post a correction on:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/p/hardware/benchmarks/erp.html

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Four Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers (UltraSPARC T2 processors) set a new World Record using Siebel's standard Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) benchmark suite with Siebel CRM 8.0 Industry Applications and Oracle 10g R2 DB running on Solaris 10.

The Sun results using the UltraSPARC T2 supported 30% higher Siebel benchmark concurrent users compared to other results on the Siebel CRM Applications Release 8.0.

Sun again shows the UltraSPARC T2 servers are ideally suited for Oracle database applications. The database server ran Oracle 10g R2 on this Siebel benchmark.

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Sun's Solaris and Coolthreads based servers proves once again to be the best combination for scalability and resource utilization in the datacenter, giving users a consistent response time on critical applications as shown 10,000 users benchmark on Siebel CRM 8.0.

The 10,000 Siebel benchmark users performance results on 4 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 servers running Solaris 10 delivers a scalable and cost-effective platform for deploying Siebel CRM Application and Oracle 10g R2 deployment.

The result of 10,000 active concurrent Siebel user benchmark was run end to end on the new generation of Sun SPARC Enterprise servers using coolthreads technology with the highest level of space and energy efficiency.

See Also: http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/white-papers-siebel.html

Siebel CRM 8.0 PSPP Performance Chart as of 01/04/2008 (bigger is better)

Vendor	Users	Web Server	Application Servers	Database Server
Sun	10,000	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 4 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2     8 GB RAM Siebel CRM 8.0 SIA [20204] ENU Sun Java System Web     Server 6.1 SP8 Solaris 10 8/07	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 8 cores, 1 chip @1.4 GHz US-T2     32 GB RAM 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 8 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2     32 GB RAM Siebel CRM 8.0 SIA [20204] ENU Solaris 10 8/07	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 8 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2     32 GB RAM Oracle 10gR2 Database     Server v10.2.0.1.0 Solaris 10 8/07
.	.	.	.	.

As noted on the official benchmark report: "Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Industry Application Platform Sizing and Performance benchmarks are based on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 customized industry applications and reflect a heavier scenario mix and more-aggressive think times than earlier version. Results of this benchmark are not comparable with those of prior Siebel CRM Release 7 benchmarks."

Benchmark Description

Siebel CRM 8.0 Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) is a multi-tier benchmark designed to stress the Siebel CRM Release 8.0 architecture and to demonstrate that large customers can successfully deploy many thousands of concurrent users. Among the Siebel CRM Release 8.0 architecture features exercised are the following:

• Smart Web Architecture: Takes advantage of the newest Web browser technology to deliver a highly interactive experience. The interaction model, which is similar to Windows-based applications, also improves productivity. Utilization rates on the web server are low, allowing customers to retain existing Web server infrastructure.
• Smart Network Architecture: Allows Siebel CRM Release 8.0 customers to leverage their existing network infrastructure by compressing and caching user interface components, so that browser/Web server interaction occurs only when the application requests data. This allows customers to avoid expensive network upgrades that can be necessary with competing products.

• Server Connection Broker: The Siebel Connection Broker (SCBroker) is a server component that provides intraserver loadbalancing. SCBroker distributes server requests across multiple instances of Application Object Managers (AOMs) running on a Siebel server.
• Smart Database Connection Pooling and Multiplexing: Allows customers to scale their database without intrducing expensive and complex transaction-processing monitors.
• Server Request Broker: Server Request Broker (SRBroker) processes synchronous server requests - reuqests that must be run immediately, and for which the calling process waits for completion.
• Enterprise Application Integration: Allows customers to integrate their existing systems with Siebel CRM applications.
• eScript: eScript is a scripting or programming language that application developers use to write simple scripts to extend Siebel applications. Javascript, a popular scripting language used primarily on Web sites, is its core language.

The test simulated real-world requirements of a large organization, consisting of 10,000 concurrent, active users from multiple departments accessing a call center. Test conditions simulated service representatives running Siebel Financial Services Call Center and partner organizations running Siebel Partner Relationship Management (Web sales and Web service). Siebel Workflow and the Siebel Scripting Engine were used to incorporate business-process-management customizations. The application also simulated integration with Web systems, using the Siebel Enterprise Application Integration component and Siebel Web Services.

Disclosure Statement:

Siebel CRM 8.0 Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP) benchmark as of 01/04/08. Sun Microsystems: 10,000 users, 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 web server (4 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2, 8 GB RAM), Siebel CRM 8.0 SIA [20204] ENU, Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8, Solaris 10 8/07, 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 application server (8 cores, 1 chip @1.4 GHz US-T2, 32 GB RAM), 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 application server (8 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2, 32 GB RAM) Siebel CRM 8.0 SIA [20204] ENU, Solaris 10 8/07, 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 database server (8 cores, 1 chip @1.2 GHz US-T2, 32 GB RAM), Oracle 10gR2 Database Server v10.2.0.1.0, Solaris 10 8/07 Oracle, Siebel, registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. More info www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/white-papers-siebel.html

Power Reference:

Sun measured: Database Server (1.2 GHz T5120, 8 core, 32G memory): 291W, Gateway/Application Server #1 (1.4 GHz T5220, 8 core, 32G memory): 323W, Application Server #2 (1.2 GHz T5220, 8 core, 32G memory): 376W, Web Server (1.2 GHz T5120, 4 core, 8G memory): 212W.

IBM power calculation based on the following: The p570 is supplied in building blocks with 2 chips, 4 cores per chassis called a CEC. Up to 4 CECs can be connected together to create a single 16 chip, 32 core SMP system. Each CEC is 4 RU, and each CE is estimatedC to consume 1,040 watts when configured with 2 processors, based on the following: IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted at ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF

System Configuration

Certified Results			10,000 Users
Reference Date:			January 4, 2008
Systems:			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, web server (one 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2)
			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, gateway/application server (one 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2)
			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220, application server(one 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2)
			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, database server (one 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T2)
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Software:			Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP8
			Siebel CRM 8.0 SIA [20204] ENU
			Oracle 10gR2 Database Server v10.2.0.1.0

UltraSPARC T2 servers better/lower-price than IBM high-end Power6

Thursday Dec 06, 2007

In the past posting there was a comment that one can't compare high-end Power6 systems with what they call low-end T2 systems. Quite simply UltraSPARC T2 systems can out perform Power6 on important datacenter workloads and much lower cost. Little need to buy from the ultra-expensive-IBM.

• SAP-SD, clearly a high-end ERP benchmark with SAP and database. Sun T5120 Beats ultra-expensive 4-core IBM p570 4.7 GHz POWER6 by 7%. Oracle Database used on Sun's SAP-SD.
• SPECjAppServer, another application tier and database-tier benchmark. Good for high-end servers, clearly UltraSPARC T2 is in that class and much less expensive the Power6. UltraSPARC T2 used as Oracle Database server. Sun T5120 67% faster 4-core IBM p570 4.7GHz Power6
  App Server: 3.8 better power-perf & 7x better SWaP
  Oracle Server: 3.4 better power-perf & 14x better SWaP
  
• SPECjbb, another application benchmark with lots of big servers. Sun T5220 9% faster than 4-core IBM p570 4.7GHz POWER6, 2.5x better power-performance & 5x better SWaP
• SPECint_rate2006: UltraSPARC T2 1.4GHz beats best 1-chip(2-core) IBM POWER6 4.7GHz by 29%
• No SPECweb2005 on power6, OK web is not an application for Power6 otherwise they would have published. However IBM did publish on the IBM p550 Power5 (an embarrassingly low result). Evidently the even more expensive are reputably faster Power6 couldn't get to the level of performance.

Pricing dataquoted to a customer!
IBM p570 POWER6 4.7GHz 4-core, 32GB $252K USD
IBM p570 POWER6 4.7GHz 4-core, 64GB $313K USD ($78K/core!!!)

So I'm left with 4-core Power6 is way to expensive and doesn't have any more redundancy features that UltraSPARC T2 which outperforms it.

The only public info that lists IBM component prices that I know is at: http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/IBM/IBM_570_10000GB_20071015_ES.pdf

Disclosure statement

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 11/13/07. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.6 SPECint_rate2006. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.5 SPECint_rate2006.Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 gccfss (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.0 SPECint_rate2006. IBM p570 (POWER6, 1 chip, 2 cores), 60.9 SPECint_rate2006. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006. IBM p570 (POWER6, 1 chip, 2 cores), 58.0 SPECfp_rate2006. SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Other results from www.spec.org as of 11/13/07. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores, 64 threads, 1.4 GHz) 16208 SPECompM2001. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores, 64 threads, 1.4 GHz) 16208 SPECompM2001. IBM p5 520 (1 chip, 2 cores, 4 threads, 1.9 GHz) 8174 SPECompM2001. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores, 64 threads, 1.4 GHz) 16208 SPECompM2001. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 37001 SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Nov 13, 2007. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 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 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. SPECjbb2005 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 results submitted to SPEC, IBM p570 (1 chip, 2 cores) 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (2 chips, 4 cores) 175474 SPECjbb2005 bops, 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p505Q (2 chips, 4 cores) 63544 SPECjbb2005 bops, 31772 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 10/08/2007 on www.spec.org. The 2-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or 4 times the rack space of a Sun T5120 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The 4-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. IBM p6 570 2-core & 4-core power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted here. The IBM p505Q POWER5+ system requires 1 RU of rack space and consumes on average 320 Watts of power. IBM p505 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 03/27/06, posted here. 1 IBM p570 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 IBM p505Q (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550(4 cores, 2 chips) 618.38 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 10/10/2007. The IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published 06/07/07, posted here. The IBM p505Q requires 1 RU of rack space and consumes on average 320* Watts of power. The IBM p505 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in "Facts and Features Report", 03/27/07, posted here. The IBM p550 requires 4RU of rack space and consumes on average 770* Watts of power. The IBM p5 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the power numbers published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 3/10/06, posted < href=http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html> here. Two-tier SAP Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise Model T5120 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 64 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, 64GB memory, 2175 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#20070xx, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; 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; IBM System p 570 (2-way, 2 processors, 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; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark.

gcc, SPEC CPU2006, & Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220

Friday Nov 02, 2007

Sun has released benchmarks results on SPEC CPU with GCCfss. GCCfss is a GCC compatible frontend with Sun Studio backend. If you have codes developed with GCC you can now just use it to run really fast on UltraSPARC T2, with all kinds of great optimizations.

For more on GCCfss see: http://cooltools.sunsource.net/gcc/

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, running at 1.4 GHz, delivered a result 78.0 SPECint_rate2006 which is slightly lower (1%) when compared with the full Sun Studio 12 compiler.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 using the GCC for SPARC Systems (gccfss) compiler topped all competitor's single chip results including the 4.7 GHZ POWER6 result from IBM by over 28% which used a proprietary compiler.

The gccfss compiler allows one to use the optimal Sun SPARC optimization tools along with the popular gcc coding conventions and deliver performance that has not been possible before without time consuming code changes.

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts: bigger is better, selected recent results

SPECint_rate2006

System	Processors					Performance Results
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Threads	Peak	Base
T5120/T5220	UltraSPARC T2	1.4	1	8	64	78.5	73.0
T5220 (gccfss)	UltraSPARC T2	1.4	1	8	64	78.0	71.6
HP DL360 G5	Intel X5365	3.0	1	4	4	61.3	53.8
IBM p 570	Power6	4.7	1	2	4	60.9	53.2
Fujitsu RX300	Intel X5355	2.66	1	4	4	52.8	50.5

Results as of 30 Oct 2007 from www.spec.org.

Benchmark Description

SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.

Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.

The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun result submitted to SPEC, other results from www.spec.org as of 10/30/07. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 gccfss (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.0 SPECint_rate2006; IBM p570 (POWER6, 1 chip, 2 cores), 60.9 SPECint_rate2006; HP DL360 G5 (Intel X5365 1chip 4-core), 61.3 SPECint_rate2006; Fujitsu RX300 (Intel X5355, 1-chip, 4-core) 52.8 SPECint_rate2006; Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.5 SPECint_rate2006.

Results Summary

Results
Reference Date:			Oct 30, 2007
System:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
Processor:			Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1.4 GHz
			78.0 SPECint_rate2006
Software:			Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler gccfss

careful reading shows a lot

Wednesday Oct 24, 2007

You have to read some things carefully

"...And the good news is that about 40-70% of the stuff we do in performance tuning actually ends up helping end users," -- Bruce Lindsay(IBM Fellow), May 06, http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0506/p71-column-winslet.pdf

"This is feasible in the TPC-C benchmark because there are only five tables and only ten to fifteen columns in each table. In a more realistic application, where there are many more queries to be considered, the tables are typically much, much wider, in the 80 to 100 column range; and there are dozens if not thousands of tables. Then this kind of analysis(ed note: tuning) is no longer practical." -- Bruce Lindsay(IBM Fellow since '96), May 06, http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0506/p71-column-winslet.pdf

"The idea is to get the numbers by hook and by crook." -- Bruce Lindsay(IBM Fellow since '96), May 06, http://www.sigmod.org/sigmod/record/issues/0506/p71-column-winslet.pdf

The TPC-C benchmark is an industry standard for measuring the ability of a system to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data. The TPC-C benchmark is unique in the way it exercises all components of a system, including processors, memory, networking, storage, operating system and database software, demonstrating total system performance in a way that many of the other benchmarks touted by some competitors do not. -- Bruce Lindsay(IBM Fellow since '96), July 25, 2006, http://www-03.ibm.com/solutions/sap/doc/content/news/pressrelease/1623288130.html

Issues:

This means that 30% to 60% of IBM's TPC-C tuning is useless for customers.

IBM clearly over-hyped TPC-C, just 2-3 months after they publicly showed all of its problems and "optimizations" they used.

Next:

"Significantly, the high utilization rate of the System z9 mainframes -- systems can and do operate at 80 to 100 percent utilization -- combined with its ability to "virtualize" workloads, can enable a single mainframe processor to perform far more work than a single x86 processor running Microsoft Windows. The latter may run as low as 5 percent utilization." - IBM Press Release http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19577.wss

Issues:

used different work for mainframe and for its competitor.

"do" and "may" mean very different things

"mainframes do operate at 80-100%", "x86 processor running Microsoft Windows. The latter may run as low as 5%". So it is a valid but totally useless statement.

An equally invalid statement: x86 do operate at 80-100% and mainframes may run as low as 5%.

Next:

"First of all, the math is really simple. 4.7 is greater than 1.4. IBM's POWER6 4.7 GHz chip is faster than Sun's 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T1 chip. And second of all, the IBM System p 570 remains the #1 SPECjbb2005 2-core result (1)." Marketing Program manager of IBM performance blog, Jun07

Issues:

Did not compare system or chip performance but only quoted the GHz of a chip?

Made a true statement about core count but ignored that that IBM cores cost much more than Sun UltraSPARC T1 and/or UltraSPARC T2 on a per core basis, I know this is hard to verify since IBM isn't public about pricing, so you'll have to ask your IBM people to price specific configurations for you, be specific so you understand exactly what is priced.

Next:

"Even more impressive, the processor bandwidth of the POWER6 chip – 300 gigabytes per second -- could download the entire iTunes catalog in about 60 seconds" - IBM Press Release http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21580.wss

Issues:

Added every bandwidth (L3 cache, address bandwidth?!?,...) in a chip, even though peak memory bandwidth is limited to at least a 10th of that, delivered is a lot less.

stated "processor bandwidth", even though "delivered" system bandwidth would actually be required to move the data (not address ).

Next:

"IBM calculates that 30 SunFire v890s can be consolidated into a single rack of the new IBM machine, saving more than $100,000 per year on energy costs (3)." - IBM Press Release http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21580.wss

Issues:

used 2 year old sun result compared to power6 yet to be shipped as of may press release

said V890, so that people think it is a current comparison, had to read in the footnotes that it was 1.5 GHz slower CPU. Sun has introduced 1.8GHz, and 2.1GHz since.

made a "conservative" comparisons by giving IBM another 15% in performance

claimed Sun at 20% utilisation and IBM at 60% utilisation, that is one way to get 3x over your competition

never showed exactly what power was drawn by a 4.7GHz, 64GB memory system, at ??MHz DDR2 used in the comparison, etc.

This was a bit of a repeat, but some things should not be forgotten.

I've never been about popularity or names. You don't need my expertise to see funny things in IBM's statements. Don't attack me, attack the facts. Anonymously yours, Sun's BM Seer.

Disclosure statement:

TPC-C is a trademark of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.

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SPECjAppServer2004 World Record Single-Application server Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (Oracle database server)

Thursday Oct 11, 2007

The Sun UltraSPARC T2 processor provides fast performance at both the Oracle database tier and the java application tier. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivered a World Record result of 2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard for a single application server system. This result used a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Application Server (single UltraSPARC T2 1.4GHz) and a Sun T5120 Server Database System (single UltraSPARC T2 1.2GHz).

This benchmark used the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3 - Java Edition and Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3. This benchmark result proves that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 and T5120 servers using the UltraSPARC T2 processor perform as oustanding J2EE application servers as well as an Oracle 10G OLTP database server.

The Sun T5220 server consumed an average of 468 Watts and the Sun T5120 consumed an average of 388 Watts for a total of 856 Watts in 3 RU space during the execution of this benchmark.

One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 67% better performance over the IBM result of 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard which used 4-core IBM p570 with 4.7GHz POWER6 processors. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 used as Application server has 3.8x better power-performance and has 7.3x better SWaP than the IBM p570 power6. Enterprise T5120 used as database servrer has 3.4 better power-performance and has 13.5x better SWaP as the IBM p550.

One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 19% better performance over the Rackable Systems result of 1672.64 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard which used 2-socket Rack C2002 quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon processors.

One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 30% better performance over the Inspur result of 1538.65 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard which used 2-socket Inspur NF280D quad-core 2.66GHz Xeon processors

One Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 58% better performance over the HP result of 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard which used 4-socket HP rx6600 dual-core 1.6GHz Itanium2 processors. The Sun T5220 achieved 4x better power-performance and has 13.3 better SWaP.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

SPECjAppServer2004 Performance Chart as of 10/10/2007. Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org. SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (bigger is better)

	SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard	J2EE Server	DB Server
Sun	2000.92	1x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.4 GHz US-T2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.3	1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 8 cores, 1 chip @ 1.2 GHz US-T2 Oracle 10g DB 10.2.0.3
Rackable	1672.64	1x Rackable C2002 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 Xeon X5355 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1x Rackable S3118 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.33 Xeon E5345 Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2
Inspur	1538.65	1x Inspur NF280D 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 GHz Xeon X5355 BEA WebLogic 10.0	1x Inspur NF380D 8 cores, 2 chips @ 2.66 GHz Xeon X5355 IBM DB2 9.1
HP	1266.42	1 x HP rx6600 8 cores, 4 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 BEA WebLogic 9.1	1 x HP rx8620 16 cores, 16 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g 10.1.0.4
IBM	1197.51	1 x IBM p570 4 cores, 2 chips @ 4.7 GHz IBM POWER6 IBM WebSphere 6.1	1 x IBM p550 4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz IBM POWER5+ IBM DB2 v9.1
HP	874.17	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle OC4J 10.1.3.2	1 x HP rx2660 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.6 GHz Itanium 2 Oracle 10g 10.2.0.2
Sybase	652.95	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 Sybase EAS 6.0.2	1 x Dell PowerEdge 2900 4 cores, 2 chips @ 3.0 GHz Xeon 5160 SQLAnywhere 10.0.1
IBM	618.38	1 x IBM p505Q 4 cores, 2 chips @ 1.65 GHz POWER5+ IBM WebSphere 6.1	1 x IBM p550 4 cores, 2 chips @ 2.1 GHz POWER5+ IBM DB2 v8.1

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:

• 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 SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) and 1 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (8 cores, 1 chip) 2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 Rackable C2002 (8 cores, 2 chips) 1 Rackable S3118 (8 cores, 2 chips) 1672.64 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 Inspur NF280D (8 cores, 2 chips) and 1 Inspur NF380D (8 cores, 2 chips) 1538.65 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 HP rx6600 (8 cores, 4 chips) and 1 HP rx8620 (16 cores, 16 chips) 1266.42 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 IBM p570 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 HP rx2660 (4 cores, 2 chips) 874.17 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 Dell PowerEdge 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 Dell PowerEdge 2900 (4 cores, 2 chips) 652.95 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. 1 IBM p505Q (4 cores, 2 chips) and 1 IBM p550(4 cores, 2 chips) 618.38 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 10/10/2007.

The IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The IBM p6 570 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published 06/07/07, posted here.

The HP rx2660 requires 2RU of rack space and consumes on average 559 Watts of power. The HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of max input power reported 07/17/07

The Dell PowerEdge 2900 requires 5RU of rack space and consumes on average 350 Watts of power. The Dell power rating 08/24/07 from Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU

The IBM p505Q requires 1 RU of rack space and consumes on average 320 Watts of power. The IBM p505 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in "Facts and Features Report", 03/27/07, posted here.

The HP rx2660 requires 2RU of rack space and consumes on average 559 Watts of power. Power Reference: HP rx2660 power calculated as 70% of max input power reported 07/17/07.

The Dell PowerEdge 2900 requires 5RU of rack space and consumes on average 350 Watts of power. The Dell power rating 08/24/07 from Dell DataCenter Capacity Planner System configured with 2 x Xeon 5160 processors, 8 x 2GB DIMMs, 1 x Disk, 1 x HBA & Redundant PSU

The IBM p550 requires 4RU of rack space and consumes on average 770 Watts of power. The IBM p5 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the power numbers published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 3/10/06, posted < href=http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/pseries/hardware/factsfeatures.html> here.

The HP rx6600 server requires 7 RU of rack space and consumes on average 1163* Watts of power. Power Reference: HP rx6600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07.

Results Summary

Certified Results			2000.92 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard
Reference Date:			Oct 10, 2007
Systems:			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
			1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120
Total Number Processors:			1, 1
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz
			UltraSPARC T2 1.2 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
Software:			Oracle Application Server 10g Release 10.1.3.3 - Java Edition
			Oracle Database Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3
JVM:			J2SE 6.0 update 3

Sun SPARC Enterprise T6320 SPECint_rate2006 Single-Chip World Record

Thursday Oct 11, 2007

The Sun Blade 6000 chassis can run Solaris, Linux, Windows, and VMware running on single and multi-core processors by Sun, AMD, and Intel, in one chassis. It is a 10-blade, 10RU Sun Blade 6000 Chassis.

Sun has announced single chip World Record results for SPECint_rate2006. This result was run on the Sun Blade T6320 blade module which uses the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server, running at 1.4 GHz, beat all single chip results running SPECint_rate2006 with a result of 78.5.

The Sun Blade T6320 system beats the best single IBM 4.7 GHz dual-core POWER6 processor result by 29%.

The Sun Blade T6320 system beat the best published single 3 GHz Xeon quad-core by 28% on SPECint_rate2006.

There are no single quad-core Opteron results published for SPECint_rate2006.

SPEC SPECint_rate2006 Performance - bigger is better, selected recent results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.

System	CPU		Performance
	Type, GHz	Chips, Cores,Threads	Peak	Base
T6320	US T2 1.4GHz	1, 8, 64	78.6	73.1
T5120/T5220	US T2, 1.4GHz	1, 8, 64	78.5	73.0
HP DL360 G5	Intel Xeon QC 3GHz	1, 4, 4	61.3	53.8
IBM p 570	Power6 4.7GHz	1, 2, 4	60.9	53.2
Fujitsu RX300	Intel Xeon, 2.66 Xeon	1, 4, 4	52.8	50.5

Yes UltraSPARC T2 result differences are in the noise between these platforms, SPEC allows run-to-run variations. Notice these results are 0.127% to 0.137% (yes near 1/10 of 1%) different.

Results as of 9 Jan 2008 from www.spec.org.

Benchmark Description

SPEC CPU2006 is made up of two suites of benchmarks, CFP2006 and CINT2006. CFP2006 targets floating-point performance, while CINT2006 targets integer performance.

Each suite has two different measures. First is the CPU measure, which is the performance on the suite as a single stream. This can be either a single thread or automatic compiled parallel run. This measure is further defined by base and optimized runs. Base uses the same compiler flags for all kernels, where optimized is allowed to use different compiler flags for each kernel. Results are compared against a baseline system run that was standardized by SPEC.

The second measure is Rate. It is a measure of how many CPU measures can be run at a time. Typically, it is run as n processes on n processors. It shows how well the same job mix can run on a system under some load. It also is run as a base and optimized set of results.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 9 Jan 2008 from www.spec.org. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.6 SPECint_rate2006. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.6 SPECint_rate2006. IBM p570 (POWER6, 1 chip, 2 cores), 60.9 SPECint_rate2006. Sun Blade T6320 (UltraSPARC T2, 1 chip, 8 cores), 78.6 SPECint_rate2006. HP DL360 G5 (X5365, 1 chip, 4 cores), 61.3 SPECint_rate2006.

Results Summary

Results
Reference Date:			9 Jan 2008
System:			Sun Blade T6320
Processor:			Sun UltraSPARC T2, 1.4 GHz
			78.6 SPECint_rate2006
Software:			Solaris 10, Sun Studio 12 Compiler

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 World Record Single-JVM Single Chip Performance

Wednesday Oct 10, 2007

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 each with the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor obtained the best single-JVM single chip results on the SPECjbb2005 server-side Java benchmark.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 servers each equipped with a single UltraSPARC T2 processor at 1.4 GHz, delivered a World Record single-JVM single-chip result of 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 each consumed an average of 468 Watts of power to obtain this result.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5120 servers beat all single-JVM results from Dell and HP, and all 8-core or less single-JVM results from IBM. These are easy to run and they are big companies, so why not publish on the latest? frayed knot?

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers single-JVM 64-bit SPECjbb2005 result is within 11% of the performance of the multi-JVM result, highlighting the flexibility of the Ultra SPARC T2 and Sun HotSpot JVM technology.

The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) was within 3% of the performance of the multi-JVM 4-core 4.7GHz IBM p570 (POWER6) result of 175,474 SPECjbb2005 bops 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5220 server has 2.2x better power-performance and has 4.3x better SWaP than the IBM 4-core p570.

The Sun T5220 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 7% better performance than the Dell PowerEdge 6950 result of 159,382 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39846 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used four 2.8GHz dual-core Opteron processors. The Sun T5220 server has 1.4x better power-performance and has 2.8x better SWaP.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 8% better performance than the 4-socket HP rx6600 (2.8 GHz Xeon DC) result of 158174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5120 server has 2.6x better power-performance and has 18x better SWaP than the HP rx6600.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 2.1x better performance than the 2-socket HP rx2660 result of 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops, 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun T5120 server has 2.5x better power-performance and has 5x better SWaP.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 52% better performance than the Dell PowerEdge 860 result of 112,092 SPECjbb2005 bops 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used a 2.4GHz quad-core Xeon processor. The Sun T5120 server delivers better performance in the same 1 RU rack space.

The Sun T5120 server (single UltraSPARC T2) demonstrated 1.9X better performance over the 2-core 4.7GHz IBM p570 (POWER6) result of 88,089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88,089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 has 4.3x better power-performance and has 17x better SWaP.

The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )

Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since power-performance is related to price/performance they are both calculated with performance in the denominator.

SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)

bops : SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)

System	Date	CPU			Performance
		Chips, Cores, Threads	GHz Type	bops	JVMs	bops/JVM
Sun T5120	10/07	1, 8, 64	1.4 GHz US T2	192055	8	24007
Sun T5220	10/07	1, 8, 64	1.4GHz US T2	192055	8	24007
IBM p570	6/07	2, 4, 4	4.7GHz POWER6	175474	2	87737
Sun T5120	10/07	1, 8, 64	1.4GHz US T2	170153	1	170153
Sun T5220	10/07	1, 8, 64	1.4GHz US T2	170153	1	170153
HP rx6600	11/06	4, 8, 16	1.6GHz Itanium2 DC	158174	4	39544
Dell PE6950	1/07	4, 8, 8	2.8GHz Opteron DC	159382	4	39846
Dell PE860	1/07	1, 2, 4	2.4 GHz Xeon	112092	1	112092
IBM p570	6/07	1, 2, 2	4.7GHz POWER6	88089	1	88089
HP rx2660	1/07	2, 4, 4	1.6GHz Itanium 2	80884	1	80884
IBM p505Q	8/06	2, 4, 8	1.65GHz POWER5+	63544	2	31772

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 SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 192055 SPECjbb2005 bops, 24007 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (1 chip, 8 cores) 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops, 170153 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220 results submitted to SPEC for review, Dell PowerEdge 860 (1 chip, 4 cores) 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops, 112092 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Dell PowerEdge 6950 (4 chips, 8 cores) 159382 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39846 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, HP rx2660 (2 chip, 4 cores) 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops, 80884 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, HP rx6600 (4 chips 8 cores) 158174 SPECjbb2005 bops, 39544 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (1 chip, 2 cores) 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops, 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p570 (2 chips, 4 cores) 175474 SPECjbb2005 bops, 87737 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM p505Q (2 chips, 4 cores) 63544 SPECjbb2005 bops, 31772 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 10/08/2007 on www.spec.org.

Power References: The 2-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or 4 times the rack space of a Sun T5120 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. The 4-core IBM p570 POWER6 system requires 4 RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220 and consumes on average 1040 Watts of power. IBM p6 570 2-core & 4-core power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published here, 06/07/07, posted here. The IBM p505Q POWER5+ system requires 1 RU of rack space and consumes on average 320 Watts of power. IBM p505 power specifications from 80% of maximum report power consumption published in ?Facts and Features Report?, 03/27/06, posted here. The HP rx2660 server requires 2 RU of rack space and consumes on average 563+ Watts of power. HP rx2660 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07: Actual HP power specs here. The HP rx6600 server requires 7 RU of rack space and consumes on averge 1163 Watts of power. HP rx6600 power consumption estimated by taking 70% of the maximum reported power dissipation, documented here on 03/23/07. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 requires 4 RU or twice the rack space of a Sun T5220. The Dell PowerEdge 6950 power consumption from here. Prices based on publicly documented list prices.

Results Summary

Results
	SPECjbb2005 bops:		170153
	SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM:		170153
	Reference Date:		Oct 9, 2007
Systems:			Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220
Total Number Processors:			1
Processor/GHz of Server:			UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz
Operating System:			Solaris 10 8/07
JVM:			Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_04-p

If you want to know, I most of this from internal documentation, if I had to figure all of this out and follow these rules, I'd go crazy. So many thanks for all of the Sun people that I plagiarize.

IBM blogger slices cores in weird ways

Tuesday Oct 09, 2007

Sun compared a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1RU, 1 CPU) benchmark to a IBM p570 4.7GHz POWER6 (4RU 2-CPU 4-core). Yes, Sun is 4 times smaller and IBM uses 2.3 TIMES more watts". what is IBM response...

"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"

IBM tells us to compare on core count???? OK, 8-core IBM p570 power6 is:

• 8 rack units (8 times bigger than Sun's 1 RU T5120!)
• lots of watts (more than 4 times Sun T5120)
• ...oh yeah, IBM 8-core is not even twice the performance
• IBM's price of the IBM system 8-core with 64GB @4.7GHz???

Sun's uses the watts that IBM puts in their datasheets (and even give them the benefit of the doubt by reducing it, please notice that when IBM launched the product they used to brag about these same watts). Because IBM does NOT publish measured watts on actual benchmarks. IBM prefers to say insane things....

"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"

it is often said... " that the definition of insanity is repetition of an action, each time hoping for a different outcome."

"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"

"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"

"I've been told to tell you: cores are the only thing that matters, IBM drone"

Disclosure Statement

Two-tier SAP Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2005 application benchmark: SPARC Enterprise Model T5120 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 64 threads) 1 x 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2, 64GB memory, 2175 SD Benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2007059, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; 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; HP ProLiant BL460c (2-way, 2 processors, 8 cores, 8 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.99 sec avg response time, Cert#2007054, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP ProLiant DL380 G5 (2-way, 2 processors, 4 cores, 4 threads) 2 x 3.0 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 32GB memory, 2080 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.95 sec avg response time, Cert#2007057, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; HP Integrity rx6600 (4-way, 4 processors, 8 cores, 16 threads) 4 x 1.6 GHz Dual-Core Intel Itanium, 48GB memory, 2150 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.97 sec avg response time, Cert#2006083, Oracle 10g, HP-UX 11iV3; IBM System p 570 (2-way, 2 processors, 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; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark. IBM System p 570 (4.7 GHz) best 8-core two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result (4010 benchmark users, 1.96 second average response time, cert # 2007038) running Oracle 10g, AIX 5L V5.3, SAP ECC Release 6.0. (8 processor cores/4 chips/16 threads) with 64 GB memory.