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Friday Feb 02, 2007

Quick facts:

The Sun's X4200 M2 server is the BEST low cost solution for Lotus Domino 7 R6iNotes benchmark:

  • 16% better $/user than HP DL380G5[3.0GHz (Woodcrest)] previous record
  • 24% better $/user than IBM X3650 [3.0GHz (Woodcrest)]
  • 56% better $/user than IBM p5-550Q[P5+ 8x1.5GHz]
  • 36% better $/user than HP DL580G3 [4xXeon 3.0GHz]
  • The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server also shows 6 times better avg RT time than the IBM's X3650 Woodcrest and almost 2 times better than the HP DL380G5 Woodcrest.

see today's earlier posting for more details.

Disclosure Statement:

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire X4200 M2, 2 sockets, 2 cores/socket@2.8GHz AMD Opteron 2220, 32GB, 3 partitions, Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 17000 users, $2.66per user, 14347 NotesMark tpm, 496ms 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., IBM X3650, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 32GB, 3 partitions, SUSE9, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 22000 users, $3.47 per user, 18989 NotesMark tpm, 3056ms avg rt., HP Proliant DL580G3, 4x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 8GB, 4 partitions, Windows Server 2003, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 18500 users, $4.15 per user, 15953 NotesMark tpm, 434ms avg rt., More info: www.notesbench.org

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Posted at 10:54AM Feb 02, 2007 in Benchmarks
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Sun X4200 $/Perf Record: Lotus Domino NotesBench R6iNotes

Friday Feb 02, 2007

Sun Fire X4200 M2 (Opteron 2220) delivers record price/performance on Lotus Domino 7.0 mail server delivered industry leading results with best price/performance for the Lotus[R] R6iNotes on Domino mail serving benchmark.

  • The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server, equipped with 2 AMD Opteron 2220 processors achieved best price/performance of $2.66/user among all classes of servers using the Lotus Domino 7.0 Messaging server running the HTTP based R6iNotes benchmark.

  • The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server has performed best as the lowest cost and higher throughput solution for Lotus Domino 7 Messaging server running HTTP based R6iNotes benchmark at 24% less price/performance than IBM X3650 Xeon 2x3.0GHz and 56% less $/user than IBM p5-550Q Power5 2x1.5GHz.

  • The Sun Fire X4200 M2 server has achieved 16% less $/user than HP DL380G5 Xeon 2x3.0GHz and 36% less price/performance than HP Proliant DL580 G3 Dual core Xeon 2x3.0GHz.

  • The Sun Fires X4200 M2 server had 6X better average response time (AvRT) than the IBM X3650 Woodcrest based system and nearly 2X better AvRT than the HP DL380G5 Woodcrest base system.

Lotus Domino 7.0 NotesBench R6iNotes Performance Chart (in increasing $/userorder)

Users = number of users supported (bigger is better)
NotesMark = the benchmark metric (bigger is better)
$/User = cost per user (smaller is better)
#Ptn = number of partitions

System

#CPUxType

Cores
/CPU

GHz

OS

$/User

Users

NotesMark

#Ptn

Response

Sun Fire
X4200 M2

2xOpteron 2220

2

2.8

Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit

$2.66

17000

14347

3

496ms

HP DL380G5

2xXeon (Woodcrest)

2

3

Windows Server 2003

$3.15

19000

15750

3

868 ms
IBM X3650

2xXeon (Woodcrest)

2

3

SUSE9

$3.47

22000

18989

3

3056ms

Sun Fire
T2000

1xUST1

8

1.4

Solaris10

$3.94

19000

16061

4

400 ms

HP Proliant
DL580 G3

4xXeon

2

3

Windows Server 2003

$4.15

18500

15953

4

434 ms

Sun Fire
T2000

1xUST1

8

1.4

Solaris10

$4.48

23200

19518

4

692 ms

IBM eServer 550Q

2xPOWER5

4

1.5

AIX5L V5.3

$5.97

24000

20108

4

932 ms

Sun Fire V890

8xUSIV+

2

1.8

Solaris10

$7.19

40000

33862

4

324 ms

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.

Disclosure Statement:

NotesBench R6iNotes Sun Fire X4200 M2, 2 sockets, 2 cores/socket@2.8GHz AMD Opteron 2220, 32GB, 3 partitions, Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 17000 users, $2.66per user, 14347 NotesMark tpm, 496ms 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., IBM X3650, 2x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 32GB, 3 partitions, SUSE9, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0.1, 22000 users, $3.47 per user, 18989 NotesMark tpm, 3056ms avg rt., HP Proliant DL580G3, 4x3.0GHz, Intel Xeon, 8GB, 4 partitions, Windows Server 2003, Lotus[R] Domino 7.0, 18500 users, $4.15 per user, 15953 NotesMark tpm, 434ms avg rt., More info: www.notesbench.org

Results Summary

    Audited Results


    Users:


    17000


    NotesMark:


    14347


    Price Performance:


    $2.66 $/User


    Price Performance:


    $3.15 $/NotesMark


    Response:


    496 ms

    System:


    Sun Fire X4200 M2, 32GB, 2x73GB disks

    Number Processors:


    2 sockets, 2 cores/socket

    Processor MHz:


    2.8 GHz

    Storage:


    2 x StorageTek 3320 SCSI JBOD(12x146GB,15Krpm) Storage Arrays

    Notes Version:


    Lotus Domino 7.0


    #Domino Partition


    3

    Operating System:


    Red Hat Enterprise Server Linux 4.0, 64-bit

    Cost:


    $45,239.42

    Other Performance Metrics


    Users/CPU:


    8500


    Users/Core


    4250

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Posted at 06:06AM Feb 02, 2007 in Benchmarks
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Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 4-thread 2-socket World Record beats IBM Power5+

Wednesday Oct 25, 2006

The Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 using Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11 delivers the best performance on the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark suite of all 2-socket systems running 4-threads. The Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 beat the IBM p5 520 POWER5+ 1.9GHz AIX5L V5.3 result by 61%

The results show that the combination of Solaris 10 using Sun Studio 11 is unmatched by the competition for assisting users in writing parallel code.

SPECompM2001 Performance Comparison (bigger is better):
Result Cores Chips Thrds System
Peak Base
13222 12763 4 2 4 Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2, Opteron 2220SE, 2.8GHz
12574 12127 4 2 4 Sun Fire X2200 M2, Opteron 2218, 2.6GHz
10964 10424 4 2 4 Sun Fire X4100, Opteron 285, 2.6GHz
8174 8141 2 1 4 IBM System p5 520 (1.9 GHz, 2 CPU)

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Benchmark Description

The SPEC OMPM2001 Benchmark Suite was released in June 2001 and tests HPC performance on a variety of scientific applications using OpenMP for parallelism. It consists of 11 programs (8 fp and 3 int intensive) in C and Fortran parallelized using OpenMP API

System Configuration:

  • Sun Fire X4100/X4200
  • 2 x 2.8 GHz Opteron 2220SE processors
  • 16GB memory (4x2GB per chip), DDR667
  • Solaris 10
  • Sun Studio 11

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 16, 2006, Sun result submitted to SPEC. Sun Fire X4100/X4200 M2 (4 cores, 2 chips, 4 threads), 13,222 SPECompM2001. IBM System p5 520 (2 cores, 1 chips, 4 threads), 8,174 SPECompM2001. Sockets refers to chips.

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Posted at 01:49PM Oct 25, 2006 in Benchmarks
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