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MySQL Information Performance, DB, Consolidation, Virtualization, Watts, & Costs

Tuesday Feb 26, 2008

{update} There is a lot of information about MySQL and Sun at http://www.sun.com/mysql In addition, I've put together a list of several blogs on MySQL performance.

* a very interesting results that compares Solaris Open-source stack (OS, DB, Web, Virtualizaion) on a 1-chip UltraSPARC T2 server and beating a proprietary stack on a 4-chip QC Xeon. Also measured actual watts and costs. Seems real configurations of HP DL580's draw lots of watts:
http://blogs.sun.com/ritu/entry/mysql_benchmark_us_t2_beats

* an ERP result using MySQL with SugarCRM:
http://blogs.sun.com/vanga/entry/scaling_sugarcrm_with_mysql_on

* great information about tuning MySQL on linux and some performance results:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/tuning_mysql_on_linux

* nice writeup on InnoDB on SysBench:
http://blogs.sun.com/realneel/entry/tuning_mysql_innodb_for_sysbench

For a For a variety of things on MySQL see:
http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/mysql_done_deal_talking_with

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MySQL Performance Results, DB, Consolidation, Virtualization, Watts, & Costs

Tuesday Feb 26, 2008

Getting ready to head off for lunch and I took off my blinders and I see all of the MySQL announcements. There are even several blogs on MySQL performance. Already some very interesting things coming from bringing MySQL into Sun.

* a very interesting results that compares Solaris Open-source stack (OS, DB, Web, Virtualizaion) on a 1-chip UltraSPARC T2 server and beating a proprietary stack on a 4-chip QC Xeon. Also measured actual watts and costs. Seems real configurations of HP DL580's draw lots of watts:
http://blogs.sun.com/ritu/entry/mysql_benchmark_us_t2_beats

* an ERP result using MySQL with SugarCRM:
http://blogs.sun.com/vanga/entry/scaling_sugarcrm_with_mysql_on

* great information about tuning MySQL on linux and some performance results:
http://blogs.sun.com/allanp/entry/tuning_mysql_on_linux

For a For a variety of things on MySQL see:
http://blogs.sun.com/barton808/entry/mysql_done_deal_talking_with

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Sun Fire X4150 SPECjbb World Record x86 Single-JVM and x86 2 Chip Multi-JVM Performance

Monday Feb 18, 2008

The Sun Fire X4150 server equipped with 2 Quad-core Intel Xeon processors obtained World Record x86 single-JVM and x86 2 chip multi-JVM results on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. Enhancements to the JVM had a major impact on performance.

The Sun Fire X4150 with 2 Intel X5460 quad-core processors and running Sun J2SE 1.6.0_05-p achieved x86 2-chip World Record performance of 303297 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75824 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark for multi-JVM results.

The Sun Fire X4150 with 2 Intel X5460 quad-core processors and running Sun J2SE 1.6.0_05-p achieved x86 World Record performance of 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops, 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for a single JVM on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.

Using the same processor, the Sun Fire X4150 with Solaris 10 and Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, beat the results of Dell and Lenovo which used Windows and BEA JRockit on the multi-JVM test.

The Sun Fire X4150 running the single-JVM SPECjbb2005 test easily beat all x86 results, topping the Dell R200 by 1.98X, the Fujitsu BX620 by 2.0X and the SGI XE240 by nearly 2.1X.

SPECjbb2005 Performance Chart (ordered by performance, bops: SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better), selected results... my best guess at the top ones for the engineers who act like lawyers you can go to www.spec.org to see all results as it clearly states at the bottom.

System Processors Performance
Chip Core Thr GHz Type SPEC-
jbb-
2005
bops
JVMs SPEC-
jbb-
2005

bops/JVM
Multi-JVM, 2-Chip x86 Results (selected top see note above)
Sun Fire X4150 2 8 8 3.16 X5460 303297 4 75824
Dell PowerEdge 2950 2 8 8 3.16 X5460 303130 4 75783
Lenovo R515 2 8 8 3.16 X5460 294716 4 73678
Single-JVM x86 Results (selected top, see note above)
Sun Fire X4150 2 8 8 3.16 X5460 277585 1 277585
Dell PowerEdge R200 1 4 4 2.66 X3230 140220 1 140220
Fujitsu BX620 2 4 4 3.0 5160 138388 1 138388
SGI Altix XE240 2 4 4 3 5160 134561 1 134561
Dell PowerEdge 2950 2 4 4 3 5160 130589 1 130589

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:

SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 2/8/2008 on www.spec.org. Sun Fire X4150 (2 chips, 8 cores) 303297 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75824 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Dell PowerEdge 2950 (2 chips, 8 cores) 303130 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75783 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Lenovo R515 (2 chips, 8 cores) 294716 SPECjbb2005 bops, 73678 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.

SPEC, SPECjbb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 2/8/2008 on www.spec.org. Sun Fire X4150 (2 chips, 8 cores) 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops, 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Dell PowerEdge R200 (1 chip, 4 cores) 140220 SPECjbb2005 bops, 140220 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Fujitsu BX620 (2 chips, 4 cores) 138388 SPECjbb2005 bops, 138388 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; SGI Altix XE240 (2 chips, 4 cores) 134561 SPECjbb2005 bops, 134561 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM; Dell PowerEdge 2950 (2 chips, 4 cores) 130589 SPECjbb2005 bops, 130589 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM.

Results Summary

Reference Date: Feb 8, 2008
Multi-JVM 303297 SPECjbb2005 bops, 75824 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
Single-JVM 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops, 277585 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM
System: Sun Fire X4150
Processor: 2 x Intel X5460 3.166 GHz
Operating System: Solaris 10 8/07
JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 32-Bit Server, Version 1.6.0_05-p

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UltraSparc T2 and Tigerton Tests

Monday Jan 07, 2008

You may have missed this writeup about UltraSparc T2 and Tigerton Tests which looked at low-level memory access measurements: http://blogs.sun.com/psa/entry/ultrasparc_t2_sun

A quote from a Sun employee I like... "You can only compute as fast as you can move data"

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Mathematica V6.0 World Records on Sun Ultra 24 Workstation

Friday Oct 26, 2007

Sun gets two new World Records for scientific desktop performance on the Sun Ultra 24 (single 3.0 GHz Intel DC Xeon E6850) and the 64-bit SuSE Linux SLED 10 operating system.

Results obtained from the most current competitive platforms have been recently posted for two different Mathematica 6 benchmarks:

  • The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark
  • The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
Although both of the Mathematica 6 benchmark test suites contains 15 test cases these test cases are different and the two test suites are separate and distinct from each other. The Ultra 24 beats all results currently listed at both benchmark sites.

The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) benchmark the Ultra 24 beats other current Intel Xeon (Woodcrest) dual core platforms (3.0 GHz & 2.66 GHz), Intel based Apple MAC desktops. Itanium 2 platforms, Pentium 4 platforms, and the IBM Power based platforms.

Alternatively, the independent Mathematica MMA6.0 notebook benchmark the Ultra 24 beats posted results from primarily current competitive Apple MAC desktops: MacPro, MacBook, iMac, and Apple Powerbook G4 Results for both benchmark test suites are shown in the Two Tables below under "Competitive Landscape"

Table 1. The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark

Summary results as in the installed Mathematica 6 Data Base. This is the latest version of Mathematica timing tests. Overall performance in 15 test calculations (Bigger is better) The current reference is a machine with a 2.4 GHz Pentium 4 processor
PLATFORMScore
1 socket DC 3GHz Intel Xeon DC E6850 SLED 10 SP 1 Ultra 24 3.266
2-socket DC 3GHz Intel Xeon 5160 MS 32-bit 2.84
2-socket DC 3.2 GHz Opteron 2224 Ultra 40 M2 64-bit SLED 10 32 GB 2.736
2-socket DC 3.2GHz Opteron 2224 Ultra 40 M2 32-bit Windows XP SP2 8GB 2.45
2 socket DC 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 64-bit Apple MAC 10.4.8 2.14
2 socket QC 1.6 GHz Intel Xeon 5310 32-bit Cent OS Linux 1.88
2 socket DC 2.5 GHz G5 Apple MAC OS 10.4.8 32-bit 1.22
1 socket 2.4 GHz Pent. 4 MS Win XP 32-bit 1.00

The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark

Summary results as listed at the independent Mathematica MMA6 http://smc.vnet.net/timings60.html website. This is the latest version of the "Mathematica MMA" timing tests. Overall performance in 15 test calculations (Bigger is better) The current reference machine is one with a 2.33GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

PLATFORMScore
Sun Ultra 24 3.0 GHz DC Intel E6850 8GB SuSE 10 SP 1 1.27505
MacPro, 3.0GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 4GB, MacOS 10.4.9 [4] 1.25404
AMD Athlon 64 FX-74, 3.0GHz Socket F (1207 FX) DSDC, Windows [5] 1.14464
iMac, 2.33GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 3GB, MacOS 10.4.9 [2] 1.00338
MacBook Pro, 2.33GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2 GB RAM, MacOS X 10.4.9 [1] 1.00105
MacBook, 2GHz Intel Core2 Duo, 2GB, MacOS 10.4.10 [6] 0.880472

Benchmark Description

The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark

The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) benchmark is a revised one that now comes imbedded in the latest release of Mathematica (currently V6.0) along with a database of results from current hardware vendor platforms. This benchmark was developed by Schoeller Porter, one of the principlal developers of Mathematica. He described the benchmark as follows: This is the standard benchmark suite for Mathematica, initially introduced in Mathematica 5.1 (as MathematicaMark2004). It includes both workstation and parallel benchmarks. The parallel benchmark is automatically invoked when the Parallel Computing Toolkit is loaded and compute kernels are available. It is actively developed, and MathematicaMark 6.0 is the current version.

The 15 Task benchmark includes:

Benchmark Name: MathematicaMark6
Full Version Number:6.0.1
Date: September 14, 2007
Benchmark Result: 3.266
Total Time 26.39
Results:
Data Fitting: 1.273
Digits of Pi: 0.488
Discrete Fourier Transform: 0.765
Eigenvalues of a Matrix: 2.059
Elementary Functions: 3.645
Gamma Function: 0.368
Large Integer Multiplication: 0.734
Matrix Arithmetic: 2.798
Matrix Multiplication: 3.062
Matrix Transpose: 1.298
Numerical Integration: 2.017
Polynomial Expansion: 1.352
Random Number Sort: 1.506
Singular Value Decomposition: 2.346
Solving a Linear System: 2.679
Output
Cell Change Times->{3.398799503863311*^9

The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark

The Mathematica MMA 6 benchmark is a widely recognized benchmark. The tasks are representative important scientific computing desktop activities. This benchmark was developed by karl.unterkofler@fh-vorarlberg.ac.at The benchmark consists of 15 tasks.

Disclosure Statement:

Mathematica MMA 6 Scientific Benchmark Sun Fire Ultra 24 score: 1.27505. Mathematica is a reg tm of Wolfram Research, Inc. results as of 10/23/07 on http://smc.vnet.net/timings60.htmlResults Summary

The Sun Ultra 24 workstation gives the best desktop scientific computing performance as demonstrated with both the The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark and the The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark. Both of these 15 task benchmarks consists of operations that are representative of computing a variety of scientific funtions.

    Reference Date 23 October 2007
     
    The Wolfram (Mathematica ISV) Benchmark
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms
    Operating System 64-bit SUSE SLED 10 SP 1
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Mathematica 6 (Scientific Application)
    Wolfram (ISV) Benchmark
    Composite Score3.266
     
    The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667 MHz dimms
    Operating System 64-bit SUSE SLED 10 SP 1
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Mathematica 6 (Scientific Application)
    The Independent (Mathematica MMA6.0.nb ) Benchmark
    Composite Score1.27505

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World Record MCAD: Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 Benchmarks Sun Ultra 24

Wednesday Oct 24, 2007

The Sun Ultra 24 desktop sets a world record in the MCAD market. The Ultra 24 beats competitive platforms from Dell, IBM, and HP. The single socket Ultra 24 can use either Intel dual-core and quad-core processors. The Sun Ultra 24 demonstrates both excellent performance and $/performance.

Pro/E is leading software MCAD system. Most major MCAE ISV applications have integration with Pro/E. Pro/E is used in a variety of different disciplines such as automotive, aircraft, aerospace, marine, oil&gas, earth moving, biomedical, heavy industry, atomic energy, etc.

Sun supports Pro/E on Opteron-based desktop platforms and Xeon-based platforms. Pro/E users appreciate Solaris for its maturity, reliability, suberb maintenanace and comprehensive well developed network features. This is a benefit for many engineering corporations that have distributed design.

The OCUS V5 benchmark has a 32-bit "Normal" benchmark and a newer 64-bit "Large Memory" benchmark to show performance on larger new workloads.

The 32-bit "Normal" OCUS V5 benchmark and World Record Ultra 24 Performance

  • The Sun Ultra 24 (3GHz QC Intel QX6850 Xeon processor, 8GB memory, an nVidia Quadr0 FX 5600 framebuffer, 2x15K SAS striped drives under 64-bit Win 2003 SP 2 XP 64-Ed. sets a new MCAD world record running the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 32-bit "Normal" benchmark beating all "legitimate" hardware vendors with results currently posted at the OCUS V5 www.proesite.com benchmark website.
  • Reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform but with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850 processor also with nVidia Quadro FX 5600 produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a with a 3GHz QC E6850 processor.
  • Further reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform with a 3GHz DC Xeon E6850 but with an nVidia Quadro FX 1700 produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a 3GHz QC QX6850 processor.
  • These results obtained with Pro/E WF 3 are better than any others posted at the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 "Normal" benchmark website by "legitimate" harware vendors. The top most competition comes from current Dell and HP desktop platforms both with the recent dual-core 3GHz Woodcrest 5160 Intel processors or the Intel Core2 Duo Extreme processors
  • The 64-bit "Large Memory" OCUS V5 benchmark and World Record Ultra 24 Performance

    • The Sun Ultra 24 with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850, 8GB memory, an nVidia Quadr0 FX 1700 framebuffer, 2x15K SAS striped drives under 64-bit Win 2003 SP 2 XP 64-Ed. sets a new MCAD world record running the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" benchmark
    • Reruns on the same Ultra 24 again with a 3GHz DC Intel Xeon E6850 but with the NVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer instead of the NVidia Quadro FX 1700 also produced essentailly the same world record results.
    • Further reruns on the same Ultra 24 platform but now with a 3GHz QC Intel QX6850 processor (same nVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer) produced essentially identical world record results as obtained in the initial runs with a 3GHz DC E6850 Xeon and an nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer.
    • These results obtained with Pro/E WF 3 are better than any others posted at the Pro/E Wildfire OCUS benchmark website. The top most competition comes from current Dell and HP desktop platforms both equipped with the recent dual core 3GHz Woodcrest 5160 Intel processors or the Intel Core2 Duo Extreme processors

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 32-bit "NORMAL" BENCHMARK Selected results are run times in seconds, smaller is better
    Ultra 24 vs. Topmost Current Posted Competitive Result
    Time (in seconds)
    Platform Processor Total Graphics CPU Disk I/O OS
    Ultra 24 1x3.0GHz QC Intel QX6850 1228 664 563 91 Win 64 XP
    Dell Prec 390 1x2.93GHz Intel Core2 X6800 1285 692 591 95 Win 64 XP

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" BENCHMARK

    Selected results are run times in seconds, smaller is better
    Ultra 24 vs. Topmost Current Posted Competitive Result

    Time (in seconds)
    Platform Processor Total Graphics CPU Disk I/O OS
    Ultra 24 1x3.0GHz DC Intel E6850 2809 877 1926 352 Win 64 XP
    Dell Prec. 490 1x3.0GHz DC Intel 5160 3026 1094 1925 341 Win 64 XP

    For results see OCUS website: http://www.proesite.com

    Results Summary

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 32-bit "NORMAL" BENCHMARK

    Submitted Results 32-bit "Normal" OCUS V5 Benchmark
    Reference Date 23 October 2007
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel QC QX6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667MHz dimms
    Operating System Win 2003 SP 2 64 Ed.
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 5600 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Pro/E Wildfire 3 (MCAD Application)
    OCUS V5 32-bit "Normal" Benchmark
    Total Elapsed Time 1228 seconds
    Total CPU Time 563 seconds
    Total Graphics Time 664 seconds
    Total Disk I/O Time 91 seconds

    PRO/E WILDFIRE MCAD OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" BENCHMARK
    Submitted Results 64-bit OCUS V5 Benchmark
    Reference Date 23 October 2007
    Platform Sun Ultra 24 Workstation
    Total Number Processors 1
    Processor/GHz of Workstation Intel DC E6850/3.0 GHz
    Memory 4x2 GB DDR2 667MHz dimms
    Operating System Win 2003 SP 2 64 Ed.
    Graphics nVidia Quadro FX 1700 framebuffer
    Disks 2x146 GB 15K rpm SAS striped
    Software Pro/E Wildfire 3 (MCAD Application)
    OCUS V5 64-bit "Large Memory" Benchmark
    Total Elapsed Time 2809 seconds
    Total CPU Time 1926 seconds
    Total Graphics Time 877 seconds
    Total Disk I/O Time 352 seconds

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  • UltraSPARC T2, and Old UltraSPARC T1 world records & new Xeon's

    Thursday Aug 09, 2007

    Postscript:

    Be careful when comparing performance results, as an example look at a comment in yesterday's "Can I use 64 threads in a chip?" posting. At least this comment pointed out that you can use 4-8 threads in 2 chip Intel-based systems, but it was really trying to be a stab at UltraSPARC Performance. Here was the comment: One really needs to look at the complete data on those .pdf's to make a fair comparison (also in the disclosure statement below).

  • First: The T2000 SAP-SD used a 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T1, Sun now ships faster 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T1, and has announced 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2. The 1.4GHz T2 has double the threads of that 1.4GHz (double the computational power).
  • Second: The T2000 SAP-SD result was submitted in Dec 2005, at that time it was near the performance of the expensive 4-way POWER5 IBM p550.
  • Third: The 2-chip Dual-core Xeon SAP-SD result above was submitted 18 months after the T2000 SAP-SD result.
  • Fourth: Different versions of the benchmark. The 2-chip Dual-core Xeon was run with ECC 6.0 (not SAP 5.0). The a newer version of the benchmark takes more computational work to produce the same results. Dual-core SAP-SD result was also run with Solaris 10 on Xeon, how cool is that!
  • Fifth: The 2-chip quad-core Xeon SAP-SD result above was submitted 19 months after the T2000 SAP-SD result.
  • Sixth: The Sun result used open-source MySQL MaxDB database, how cool is that! The Xeon results used Oracle or MicroSoft SQL Server.
      postscript:
      Sun latter used Oracle, others suggested US T1 has some sort of silly database limitation - NOT TRUE!

    You'll see more results soon.

    Triffids, as a reminder if you work for a partner company of SAP you must put the following disclosures when you post results. If you are not they you don't need to put this in, but as you can see the data in it would have allowed you to make a better comparison of systems. Don't worry I'm not asking you to identify yourself at all.

    Disclosure Statement:

    Two-tier SAP ECC 5.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Sun Fire T2000 (1-way, 1 proc, 8 cores, 32 threads) 1x 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1, 32 GB mem, 950 SD benchmark users, 1.91 sec avg response time, Cert#2005047., MaxDB 7.5 database, Solaris 10; Two-tier SAP ECC 5.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark IBM System eServer p5 550 (4-way, 4 procs, 4 cores, 8 threads) 4x 1.9 GHz POWER5+, 32GB mem, 1,000 SD benchmark users, 1.97s avg resp time, Cert#2005040, IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.2.2, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Two-tier SAP ECC 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Model BFi20 S2 (2 procs, 4 cores, 4 threads) 2x Intel Xeon 5160, 3.0 GHz, 16GB mem, 1,020 SD benchmark users, 1.94s avg resp time, Cert#2007031, Oracle 10g, Solaris 10; Two-tier SAP ECC 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark Fujitsu Siemens Computers PRIMERGY Model TX300 S3 (2 procs, 8 cores, 8 threads) 4x Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 2.66 GHz, 32GB mem, 1865 SD benchmark users, 1.99s avg resp time, Cert#2007025, SQL Server 2005, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition; SAP, R/3, mySAP reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark.

    I edited in:
    2 processors into Quad-Core Intel Xeon Processor X5355 2.66 GHz

    ...and..

    32 threads to the Sun Fire T2000, 1 processor / 8 cores ...in order to make the comparisons more consistent.

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