Sun's New World Record on SPECcpu

Tuesday Apr 14, 2009

Today Sun announced world records for SPECfp2006: 50.4 on a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570) Sun Blade X6270 as well as SPECint2006: 36.9 on a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570) Sun Blade X6270.

Read more at: http://blogs.sun.com/jhenning/entry/sun_studio_trounces_intel_compiler.

Yes, even on servers based on the same CPUs as others, Sun can make a difference. Congrats to those on the Sun Studio Compiler team. They beats Intel's own compiler on this Intel chip by 20%, due to the optimization technologies found in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler.

See John's posting above for more info. On a different note, notice how much information Sun puts out our benchmarks - lots! Fun to look at IBM bloggers, some of whom spend 90% of their blog on "cute" and only 10% talking about benchmark results. Information is not ones enemy.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 4/14/2009. Sun Blade X6270 (Intel Xeon X5570 / 2 chips / 8 cores) 50.4 SPECfp2006, IBM System p 570 (POWER6, 1 chip / 1 core) 24.9 SPECfp2006.

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Posted at 08:49AM Apr 14, 2009 in Benchmark Issues
Tags: blade intel nehalem opensolaris performance sun x6270 x64 xeon

SPECjvm2008 on Sun Blade X6270 World record result

Tuesday Apr 14, 2009

The Sun Blade X6270 server demonstrates Sun's position of leadership in Java based computing by publishing world record results for the SPECjvm2008 benchmark. The Sun Blade X6270 server delivered a result of 317.13 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m using the Sun Java JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release with the OpenSolaris 2008.11 Operating System.

SPECjvm2008 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)

base: SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m (bigger is better)
peak: SPECjvm2008 Peak ops/m (bigger is better)
Ch/Co/Lc: Chips, Cores, Logical CPUs

SPECjvm2008 (Java Virtual Machine Benchmark) is a benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real life applications and benchmarks focusing on core java functionality. The suite focuses on the performance of the JRE executing a single application; it reflects the performance of the hardware processor and memory subsystem, but has low dependence on file I/O and includes no network I/O across machines. The SPECjvm2008 workload mimics a variety of common general purpose application computations. These characteristics reflect the intent that this benchmark will be applicable to measuring basic Java performance on a wide variety of both client and server systems.

SPEC also finds user experience of Java important, and the suite therefore includes startup benchmarks and has a required run category called base, which must be run without any tuning of the JVM to improve the out of the box performance.

SPECjvm2008 benchmark highlights:

• Leverages real life applications (like derby, sunflow, and javac) and area-focused benchmarks (like xml, serialization, crypto, and scimark).
• Also measures the performance of the operating system and hardware in the context of executing the JRE.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECjvm reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 4/14/08 on http://www.spec.org. Sun Blade X6270(2 chips, 8 cores) 317.13 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m submitted to SPEC for review. Sun Fire X4450(4 chips, 24 cores) 283.79 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m Sun Fire X4450(4 chips, 16 cores) 260.08 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m

System Configuration

Results
	Performance:		317.13 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m
	Reference Date:		Apr 14, 2009
Systems:			Sun Blade X6270
Total Number Processors:			2
Processor/ GHz of Server:			Intel Xeon X5570 QC 2.93 GHz
Operating System:			OpenSolaris 2008.11
JVM:			Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM on Solaris, version 1.6.0_14 Performance Release

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Posted at 06:41AM Apr 14, 2009 in Benchmarks
Tags: blade fire intel nehalem opensolaris performance sun x6270 x64 xeon