Multiple CPU2006 Throughput World Records on Sun Constellation system!!! Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

Sun Blade 6048 Chassis with Sun Blade X6440 sets Multiple World Records

SPEC CPU2006 Rate World Records

Significance of Results

A Sun Constellation system, composed of 48 Sun Blade X6440 server modules in a Sun Blade 6048 chassis, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler delivered World Record SPEC CPU2006 rate results. These two record setting results on Sun Blade 6048, do make me sing Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!

• The Sun Constellation System equipped with AMD Opteron QC 8384 2.7 GHz processors, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 update 1 compiler, delivered the World Record SPECint_rate_base2006 score of 8840.
• This SPECint_rate_base2006 score beat the previous record holding score by over three times.
• The Sun Constellation System equipped with AMD Opteron QC 8384 2.7 GHz processors, running OpenSolaris 2008.11 and using the Sun Studio 12 update 1 compiler, delivered the fastest x86 SPECfp_rate_base2006 score of 6500.
• This SPECfp_rate_base2006 score beat the previous x86 record holding score by nine times.

Performance Landscape

SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.

SPECint_rate2006

System	Processors				Performance Results		Notes (1)
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Peak	Base
Sun Blade 6048	Opteron 8384	2.7	192	768		8840	New Record
SGI Altix 4700 Density System	Itanium 9150M	1.66	128	256	3354	2893	Previous Best
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System	Itanium2 9040	1.6	128	256	2971	2715
Fujitsu/Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000	SPARC64 VII	2.52	64	256	2290	2090
IBM Power 595	POWER6	5.0	32	64	2160	1870	Best POWER6

(1) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.

SPECfp_rate2006

System	Processors				Performance Results		Notes (2)
	Type	GHz	Chips	Cores	Peak	Base
SGI Altix 4700 Density System	Itanium 9140M	1.66	512	1024		10580
Sun Blade 6048	Opteron 8384	2.7	192	768		6500	New x86 Record
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System	Itanium2 9040	1.6	128	256	3507	3419
IBM Power 595	POWER 6	5.0	64	32	2184	1681	Best POWER6
Fujitsu/Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000	SPARC64 VII	2.52	64	256	2005	1861
SGI Altix 4700 Bandwidth System	Itanium 9150M	1.66	128	256	1947	1832
SGI Altix ICE 8200EX	Intel X5570	2.93	8	32	742	723

(2) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.

(2) Results as of 23 June 2009 from www.spec.org.

Results and Configuration Summary

Hardware Configuration:

1 x Sun Blade 6048

48 x Sun Blade X6440, each with

4 x 2.7 GHz QC AMD Opteron 8384 processors
32 GB, (8 x 4GB)

Software Configuration:

O/S: OpenSolaris 2008.11
Compiler: Sun Studio 12 Update 1
Other SW: MicroQuill SmartHeap Library 9.01 x64
Benchmark: SPEC CPU2006 V1.1

Key Points and Best Practices

The Sun Blade 6048 chassis is able to contain a variety of server modules. In this case, the Sun Blade X6440 was used to provide this capacity solution. This single rack delivered results which have not been seen in this form factor.

To run this many jobs, the benchmark requires a reasonably good file server where the benchmark is run. The Sun Fire X4540 server was used to provide the disk space required being accessed by NFS by the blades.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 6/22/2009 and this report. Sun Blade 6048 chassis with Sun Blade X6440 server modules (48 nodes with 4 chips, 16 cores, 16 threads each, OpenSolaris 2008.11, Studio 12 update 1) - 8840 SPECint_rate_base2006, 6500 SPECfp_rate_base2006

See Also

• Sun Constellation System - Overview
• SPEC Home Page

Posted at 11:04AM Jun 23, 2009 by gnana in General  |