Wednesday Nov 26, 2008
Over that the Zeus website, they posted information on Zeus Technology’s ZXTM (Zeus Extensible Traffic Manager).
Zeus shows performance data from their testing on QC Xeons, older DC Opterons, f5's Big-IP, Citrix, and Sun's CMT on HTTP throughput tests. What the data shows is the Sun Fire T5140 (1.2GHz, 2-socket) is the fastest 2-socket system.
Estimating from the graph the Sun Fire T5140 looks to have almost 3x better price peformance than f5's BIG-IP VIPRION and 2.5x better Citrix.
You can read more about it at:
http://www.zeus.com/news/press_articles/zeus-price-performance-press-release.html?gclid=CLn4jLuuk5cCFQsQagod7gTkJA
As they say, "Voice-over-IP (VoIP) services are converging on SIP and RTP for signaling and real-time media delivery respectively."
I'll post more details on this test as I find them.
Onwards to that most 'merican of holidays, T-day. Enjoy your holiday!
Tuesday Oct 09, 2007
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 obtained a world record SPECweb2005
result 37,001 SPECweb2005 with one UltraSPARC T2
running Solaris 10 with Sun Java System Web Server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 22% greater
performance than the four-socket HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with 2.9 GHz
Quad-Core Xeon processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
has 2.1x better power-performance and has 4.1x better SWaP.
Yes, beats FOUR SOCKETs filled with QUAD_CORE!
See below if you are not familiar with SWaP and why you should care
about the SWaP 'figure of merit.'
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 66% greater
performance than the 4-socket HP ProLiant DL585 G2 with 3 GHz dual-core
Opteron processors. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220
has 2.2x better power-performance and has 4.4x better SWaP.
There are no IBM POWER6 results on the SPECweb benchmark.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server is 4.7 times faster than the
4-core IBM p550 1.9GHz POWER5+. In addition, the Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 has 5.7x better power-performance and has 11.5x better SWaP.
This
world record benchmark result
clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 running the
Solaris 10 08/07 and Java System Webserver 7.0 Update 2 can support
thousands of
concurrent secure and non secure web server sessions while allowing
larger and more complex
Java applications to be run and is an industry leader in web
serving.
Cryptography performance is enhanced on the Sun SPARC Enterprise
T5220 by using UltraSPARC T2's enhanced
on-chip cryptographic hardware with Solaris 10's secured web service
software feature. SPECweb2005's banking workload
highlights the server's secure web server performance. The Sun
SPARC Enterprise T5220 (63,000
SPECweb2005_Banking) performance was 21% greater than the 2.9 GHz
Quad-Core Xeon HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (52,160
SPECweb2005_Banking).
The SWaP metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that
includes system performance, power and space consumption on a specific
benchmark. (SWaP = Perf /[ Space (RU) x Watts ] )
One thing you'll note is Sun execs are using the term "power-performance",
maybe they've been getting the word from some of us that it should
be coputed as "watt/perf".
Power-performance is computed as watt/performance. Since
power-performance is related to $/perf they are both
calculated with "performance" in the denominator.
Competitive Landscape
Selected SPECweb2005 benchmark results as of 10/04/2007. Complete
information at: http://www.spec.org
website.
| System |
Chip, Core |
Proc GHz |
OS |
Web Server |
SPEC web 2005 |
Bank |
Ecom |
Supp |
| Sun SE T5220 |
1, 8 |
US T2/1.4 |
Solaris 08/07 |
Sun JSWS 7.0u2 |
37001 |
63000 |
49500 |
36000 |
| HP PL DL580 G5 |
4, 4 |
Xeon QC 2.993GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 |
30261 |
52160 |
42048 |
28000 |
| HP PL DL585 G2 |
4, 2 |
Opteron DC 3GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock1.2.0 |
22254 |
38400 |
30720 |
20704 |
| HP PL ML370 G5 |
4, 4 |
Xeon QC 2.66GHz |
RedHat Linux |
Rock1.4.0 JRock v1.2.0 |
19661 |
34720 |
27264 |
17792 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.4GHz |
Solaris 11/06 |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
16407 |
25812 |
24048 |
15768 |
| Sun Fire T2000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.2GHz |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
14001 |
21500 |
21500 |
13160 |
| Sun Fire T1000 |
1, 8 |
US T1 1.0 GHz |
Solaris |
Sun JSWS 6.1 SP5 64b |
10466 |
20000 |
16500 |
7700 |
| IBM p5 550 |
2, 2 |
POWER5+ 1.9GHz |
SuSE Linux |
Zeus4.3r1 Tomcat5.5.9 |
7881 |
12240 |
11820 |
7500 |
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 results currently under SPEC review.
Benchmark Description
SPECweb2005, is the latest
industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance
developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions
accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP
requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:
- Measures simultaneous user sessions
- Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
- Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
- Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce
(HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
- Simulates browser caching effects
- File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access
patterns
Disclosure Statement:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (8 cores, 1 chip) 37001 SPECweb2005,
submitted to SPEC for review on October 8, 2007. HP ProLiant
DL580 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 30261 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL585 G2 (8 cores, 4 chips) 22254 SPECweb2005.; HP ProLiant ML370 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 19661
SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G4 (8 cores, 4 chips) 18981
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 16407
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001
SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466
SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881
SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance
Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 8, 2007.
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server power consumption taken
from measurements made during the benchmark run.
Power is average measured watts during
benchmark run.
HP DL580 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured
with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x
36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilisation on 9/10/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
HP DL385G2 power consumption from HP Power Calculator for system
configured with 2 x AMD 2220 2.8GHz processors, redundant PSU, 8 x 4GB
DIMMs, 2 x HBAs and 2 x 146GB SAS drives, 80% utilisation on 6/4/07: http://h30099.www3.hp.com/configurator/powercalcs.asp
IBM 550 power specifications calculated by applying 70% of the Maximum
Watts published in “Facts and Features Report”, 11/14/06, posted
atftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/PSB01628USEN/PSB01628USEN.PDF.
Results Summary
| Certified Results |
37,001 SPECweb2005 |
| Reference Date: |
October 9, 2007 |
| Systems: |
1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 |
| Total Number Processors: |
1 chip / 8 cores (8 threads/core) |
| CPU/GHz of Server: |
Sun UltraSPARC T2 1.4 GHz |
| Operating System: |
Solaris 10 08/07 + patches
|
| Software: |
Sun Java[TM] System Web Server 7.0 Update 2
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