Monday February 27, 2006
Monday February 27, 2006 Back in December when Sun's CoolThread Servers were announced, I wrote a similar blog entry comparing the Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 SPECjbb2005 scores to our competitor's SPECjbb2005 scores on 1U, 2U, and 4U systems. Below is updated data, along with space and power data using the SWaP metric. The Sun Fire T1000 scores are phenomenal!. All run with Sun J2SE 5.0._06. with HotSpot JVM technology. Interested in finding out for yourself? Go here to try a Sun Fire T2000 free for 60 days.
Take a look at the the chart below. The Sun T2000 surpasses all other competition in the 2U and 4U space.
How are these results comparable? Its simple, compare the raw throughput SPECjbb2005 bops score. One may ask: "How can you compare a 8 core / 32 thread box to a 4 core / 8 thread Power 5+?". Its easy. Chip and core counts are steadily becoming irrelavent. What really matters is how much work (throughput) a system can achieve and how much is that system going to cost to run. This includes lab space, power, and cooling costs.
Below is a system comparison using the SWaP--the Space, Watts and Performance (SWaP) metric. The SWaP metric is defined as follows:
How about scalability? Here's a good example of how the Sun Fire T2000 and the UltraSPARC T1 processor scales from 1 to 32 threads. Each SPECjbb2005 warehouse is a new thread. Throughput steadily increases as new threads are added, peaking at 32.
Fine print SPEC disclosure:
SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire T1000 (1 chip, 8 core, 32 threads) 51,540 bops, 12,885 bops/JVM, Sun Fire T2000 (1 chip, 8 core, 32 threads) 63,378 bops, 15,845 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 520 (2 chips, 2 cores, 4 thread) 32,820 bops, 32,820 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 510 (2 chips, 2 cores, 4 thread) 32,820 bops, 32,820 bops/JVM (referenced on IBM benchmark website), AMD Tyan white box (2 chips, 4 cores, 4 thread) 44,574 bops, 44,574 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 550 (4 chips, 4 cores, 4 thread) 61,789 bops, 61,789 bops/JVM . SPEC™ and the benchmark name SPECjbb2005™ are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of February 27, 2006. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005.
How are these results comparable? Its simple, compare the raw throughput SPECjbb2005 bops score. One may ask: "How can you compare a 8 core / 32 thread box to a 4 core / 8 thread Power 5+?". Its easy. Chip and core counts are steadily becoming irrelavent. What really matters is how much work (throughput) a system can achieve and how much is that system going to cost to run. This includes lab space, power, and cooling costs.
Below is a system comparison using the SWaP--the Space, Watts and Performance (SWaP) metric. The SWaP metric is defined as follows:
How about scalability? Here's a good example of how the Sun Fire T2000 and the UltraSPARC T1 processor scales from 1 to 32 threads. Each SPECjbb2005 warehouse is a new thread. Throughput steadily increases as new threads are added, peaking at 32.
Fine print SPEC disclosure:
SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire T1000 (1 chip, 8 core, 32 threads) 51,540 bops, 12,885 bops/JVM, Sun Fire T2000 (1 chip, 8 core, 32 threads) 63,378 bops, 15,845 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 520 (2 chips, 2 cores, 4 thread) 32,820 bops, 32,820 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 510 (2 chips, 2 cores, 4 thread) 32,820 bops, 32,820 bops/JVM (referenced on IBM benchmark website), AMD Tyan white box (2 chips, 4 cores, 4 thread) 44,574 bops, 44,574 bops/JVM, IBM eServer p5 550 (4 chips, 4 cores, 4 thread) 61,789 bops, 61,789 bops/JVM . SPEC™ and the benchmark name SPECjbb2005™ are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of February 27, 2006. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005.