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3DSMAX | CATIA | ENSIGHT | MAYA | ||||
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| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| Sun Ultra 27 FX5800 | 59.34 | 68.81 | 58.07 | 246.09 | ||||
| HP xw4600 ATI FireGL V7700 | 49.71 | 19 | 48.05 | 43 | 57.11 | 2 |
268.62 | -8 |
| HP xw4600 FX4800 | 52.26 | 14 | 63.26 | 12 | 53.79 | 8 |
226.82 | 7 |
| Fujtsu Celsius M470 FX3800 | 53.67 | 11 | 65.25 | 7 | 52.19 | 10 | 227.37 | 7 |
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PROENGINEER | SOLIDWORKS | TEAMCENTER | UGS | ||||
| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| Sun Ultra 27 FX5800 | 68.96 | 152.01 | 42.02 | 36.04 | ||||
| HP xw4600 ATI FireGL V7700 | 47.25 | 32 | 109.71 | 28 | 40.18 | 4 | 56.65 | -57 |
| HP xw4600 FX4800 | 61.15 | 11 | 131.31 | 14 | 28.42 | 32 | 33.43 | 7 |
| Fujtsu Celsius M470 FX3800 | 64.39 | 7 |
139.2 | 8 | 29.02 | 31 | 33.27 | 8 |
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3DSMAX | CATIA | ENSIGHT | MAYA | PROENGR | SOLIDWRKS | TEAMCNTR | UGS | ||||||||
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| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| FX5800 | 57.07 | 67.84 | 58.63 | 219.4 | 68.05 | 152.3 | 40.85 | 34.73 | ||||||||
| FX3800 | 57.17 | 0 | 66.57 | 2 |
54.91 | 7 |
206.4 | 6 | 66.48 | 2 | 146.3 | 4 | 38.48 | 6 | 33.12 | 5 |
| FX1800 | 56.73 | 1 |
64.33 | 6 |
52.05 | 13 | 189.3 | 16 | 64.67 | 5 | 135.2 | 13 | 34.18 | 20 |
30.46 | 14 |
| FX380 | 45.90 | 24 | 55.81 | 22 | 34.93 | 68 | 120.3 | 82 | 46.09 | 48 | 64.11 | 138 | 17.00 | 140 | 13.88 | 150 |
Sun and Oracle demonstrate the World's fastest database performance. Sun Microsystems using 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers, 60 Sun Storage F5100 Flash arrays and Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning delivered a world-record TPC-C benchmark result.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster result delivered a world record TPC-C benchmark result of 7,646,486.7 tpmC and $2.36 $/tpmC (USD) using Oracle 11g R1 on a configuration available 12/14/09.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster beats the performance of the IBM Power 595 (5GHz) with IBM DB2 9.5 database by 26% and has 16% better price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
The complete Oracle/Sun solution used 10.7x better computational density than the IBM configuration (computational density = performance/rack).
The complete Oracle/Sun solution used 8 times fewer racks than the IBM configuration.
The complete Oracle/Sun solution has 5.9x better power/performance than the IBM configuration.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster beats the performance of the HP Superdome (1.6GHz Itanium2) by 87% and has 19% better price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
The Oracle/Sun solution utilized Sun FlashFire technology to deliver this result. The Sun Storage F5100 flash array was used for database storage.
Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning scales and effectively uses all of the nodes in this configuration to produce the world record performance.
This result showed Sun and Oracle's integrated hardware and software stacks provide industry-leading performance.
More information on this benchmark will be posted in the next several days.
System | tpmC | Price/tpmC | Avail | Database | Cluster | Racks | w/KtpmC |
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| 12 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 7,646,487 | 2.36 USD | 12/14/09 | Oracle 11g RAC | Y | 9 | 9.6 |
| IBM Power 595 | 6,085,166 | 2.81 USD | 12/10/08 | IBM DB2 9.5 | N | 76 | 56.4 |
| HP Integrity Superdome | 4,092,799 | 2.93 USD | 08/06/07 | Oracle 10g R2 | N | 46 | to be added |
Avail - Availability date
w/KtmpC - Watts per 1000 tpmC
Racks - clients, servers, storage, infrastructure
Sun and IBM TPC-C Response times
System | tpmC | Response Time New Order 90th% | Response Time New Order Average |
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| 12 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 7,646,487 | 0.170 | 0.168 |
| IBM Power 595 | 6,085,166 | 1.69 | 1.22 |
| Response Time Ratio - Sun Better | 9.9x | 7.3x |
Sun uses 7x comparison to highlight the differences in response times between Sun's solution and IBM. Although notice that Sun is 10x faster on New Order transactions that finish in the 90% percentile.
It is also interesting to note that none of Sun's response times, avg or 90th percentile, for any transaction is over 0.25 seconds. While IBM does not have even one interactive transaction, not even the menu, below 0.50 seconds. Graphs of Sun's and IBM's response times for New-Order can be found in the full disclosure reports on TPC's website TPC-C Official Result Page.
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
TPC-C is an OLTP system benchmark. It simulates a complete environment where a population of terminal operators executes transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities (transactions) of an order-entry environment. These transactions include entering and delivering orders, recording payments, checking the status of orders, and monitoring the level of stock at the warehouses.
See Also
TPC Benchmark C, tpmC, and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Performance Processing Council (TPC). 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Cluster (1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 4 processor) with Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning, 7,646,486.7 tpmC, $2.36/tpmC. Available 12/14/09. IBM Power 595 (5GHz Power6, 32 chips, 64 cores, 128 threads) with IBM DB2 9.5, 6,085,166 tpmC, $2.81/tpmC, available 12/10/08. HP Integrity Superdome(1.6GHz Itanium2, 64 processors, 128 cores, 256 threads) with Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition, 4,092,799 tpmC, $2.93/tpmC. Available 8/06/07. Source: www.tpc.org, results as of 11/5/09.
A Sun Ultra 27 workstation configured with an nVidia FX5800 graphics card delivered outstanding performance running the SPECviewperf® 10 benchmark.
When compared with other workstations running a single graphics card (i.e. not running two or more cards in SLI mode), the Sun Ultra 27 workstation places first in 6 of 8 subtests and second in the remaining two subtests.
The calculated geometric mean shows that Sun Ultra 27 workstation is 11% faster than competitor's workstations.
The optimum point for price/performance is the nVidia FX1800 graphics card.
Results have been published on the SPEC web site at http://www.spec.org/gwpg/gpc.data/vp10/summary.html.
Performance of the Sun Ultra 27 versus the competition. Bigger is better for each of the eight tests. The comparison is based upon the performance of the Sun Ultra 27 workstation. Performance is measured in frames per second.
| 3DSMAX | CATIA | ENSIGHT | MAYA | |||||
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| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| Sun Ultra 27 FX5800 | 59.34 | 68.81 | 58.07 | 246.09 | ||||
| HP xw4600 ATI FireGL V7700 | 49.71 | 19 | 48.05 | 43 | 57.11 | 2 | 268.62 | -8 |
| HP xw4600 FX4800 | 52.26 | 14 | 63.26 | 12 | 53.79 | 8 | 226.82 | 7 |
| Fujtsu Celsius M470 FX3800 | 53.67 | 11 | 65.25 | 7 | 52.19 | 10 | 227.37 | 7 |
| PROENGINEER | SOLIDWORKS | TEAMCENTER | UGS | |||||
| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| Sun Ultra 27 FX5800 | 68.96 | 152.01 | 42.02 | 36.04 | ||||
| HP xw4600 ATI FireGL V7700 | 47.25 | 32 | 109.71 | 28 | 40.18 | 4 | 56.65 | -57 |
| HP xw4600 FX4800 | 61.15 | 11 | 131.31 | 14 | 28.42 | 32 | 33.43 | 7 |
| Fujtsu Celsius M470 FX3800 | 64.39 | 7 | 139.2 | 8 | 29.02 | 31 | 33.27 | 8 |
Comparison of various frame buffers on the Sun Ultra 27 running SPECviewperf 10. Performance is reported for each test along with the difference in performance as compared to the FX5800 frame buffer. The runs in the table below were made with 3.2GHz W3570 processors.
| 3DSMAX | CATIA | ENSIGHT | MAYA | PROENGR | SOLIDWRKS | TEAMCNTR | UGS | |||||||||
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| Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | Perf | % | |
| FX5800 | 57.07 | 67.84 | 58.63 | 219.4 | 68.05 | 152.3 | 40.85 | 34.73 | ||||||||
| FX3800 | 57.17 | 0 | 66.57 | 2 | 54.91 | 7 | 206.4 | 6 | 66.48 | 2 | 146.3 | 4 | 38.48 | 6 | 33.12 | 5 |
| FX1800 | 56.73 | 1 | 64.33 | 6 | 52.05 | 13 | 189.3 | 16 | 64.67 | 5 | 135.2 | 13 | 34.18 | 20 | 30.46 | 14 |
| FX380 | 45.90 | 24 | 55.81 | 22 | 34.93 | 68 | 120.3 | 82 | 46.09 | 48 | 64.11 | 138 | 17.00 | 140 | 13.88 | 150 |
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
SPECviewperf measures 3D graphics rendering performance of systems running under OpenGL. SPECviewperf is a synthetic benchmark designed to be a predictor of application performance and a measure of graphics subsystem performance. It is a measure of graphics subsystem performance (primarily graphics bus, driver and graphics hardware) and its impact on the system without the full overhead of an application. SPECviewperf reports performance in frames per second.
Please go here for a more complete description of the tests.
SPECviewperf measures the 3D rendering performance of systems running under OpenGL.
The SPECopcSM project group's SPECviewperf 10 is totally new performance evaluation software. In addition to features found in previous versions, it now provides the ability to compare performance of systems running in higher-quality graphics modes that use full-scene anti-aliasing, and measures how effectively graphics subsystems scale when running multithreaded graphics content. Since the SPECviewperf source and binaries have been upgraded to support changes, no comparisons should be made between past results and current results for viewsets running under SPECviewperf 10.
SPECviewperf 10 requires OpenGL 1.5 and a minimum of 1GB of system memory. It currently supports Windows 32/64.
SPEC® and the benchmark name SPECviewperf® are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of Oct 18, 2009. For the latest SPECviewperf benchmark results, visit www.spec.org/gwpg.
Two Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors delivered the best performance of 50K concurrent users on the Oracle BI EE 10.1.3.4 benchmark with Oracle 11g database running on free and open Solaris 10.
The two node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers with Oracle BI EE running on Solaris 10 using 8 Solaris Containers shows 1.8x scaling over Sun's previous one node SPARC Enterprise T5440 server result with 4 Solaris Containers.
The two node SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers demonstrated the performance and scalability of the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor demonstrating 50K users can be serviced with 0.2776 sec response time.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server was used as an NFS server with 4 internal SSDs and the ZFS file system which showed significant I/O performance improvement over traditional disk for Business Intelligence Web Catalog activity.
IBM has not published any POWER6 processor based results on this important benchmark.
| System | Processors | Users | ||
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| Chips | GHz | Type | ||
| 2 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 8 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 50,000 |
| 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 4 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 28,000 |
| 5 x Sun Fire T2000 | 1 | 1.2 | UltraSPARC T1 | 10,000 |
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
The user population was divided into a mix of administrative users and business users. A maximum of 28,000 concurrent users were actively interacting and working in the system during the steady-state period. The tests executed 580 transactions per second, with think times of 60 seconds per user, between requests. In the test scenario 95% of the workload consisted of business users viewing reports and navigating within dashboards. The remaining 5% of the concurrent users, categorized as administrative users, were doing application development.
The benchmark scenario used a typical business user sequence of dashboard navigation, report viewing, and drill down. For example, a Service Manager logs into the system and navigates to his own set of dashboards viz. .Service Manager.. The user then selects the .Service Effectiveness. dashboard, which shows him four distinct reports, .Service Request Trend., .First Time Fix Rate., .Activity Problem Areas., and .Cost Per completed Service Call . 2002 till 2005. . The user then proceeds to view the .Customer Satisfaction. dashboard, which also contains a set of 4 related reports. He then proceeds to drill-down on some of the reports to see the detail data. Then the user proceeds to more dashboards, for example .Customer Satisfaction. and .Service Request Overview.. After navigating through these dashboards, he logs out of the application
This benchmark did not use a synthetic database schema. The benchmark tests were run on a full production version of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications with a fully populated underlying database schema. The business processes in the test scenario closely represents a true customer scenario.
Sun has obtained a World Record SPECweb2005 performance result of 100,209 SPECweb2005 on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440, running Solaris 10 10/09 Sun JAVA System Web Server 7.0 Update 5, and Java Hotspot™ Server VM.
This result demonstrates performance leadership of the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server and its scalability, by using Solaris Containers to consolidate multiple web serving environments, and Sun OpenStorage Flash technology to store large datasets for fast data retrieval.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 delivers 21% greater SPECweb2005 performance than the HP DL370 G6 with 3.2GHz Xeon W5580 processors.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 delivers 40% greater SPECweb2005 performance than the HP DL 585 G5 with four 3.114 GHz Opteron 8393 SE processors.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 delivers 2x the SPECweb2005 performance of the HP DL 580 G5 with four 2.66GHz Xeon X7460 processors.
There are no IBM Power6 results on the SPECweb2005 benchmark.
This benchmark result clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 running Solaris 10 10/09 and Sun Java System Webserver 7.0 Update 5 can support thousands of concurrent web server sessions and is an industry leader in web serving with a Sun solution.
| Server | Processor | SPECweb2005 | Banking* | Ecomm* | Support* | Webserver | OS |
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| Sun T5440 | 4x 1.6 T2 Plus | 100,209 | 176,500 | 133,000 | 95,000 | Java WebServer | Solaris |
| HP DL370 G6 | 2x 3.2 W5580 | 83,073 | 117,120 | 142,080 | 76,352 | Rock | RedHat |
| HP DL585 G5 | 4x 3.11 O8393 | 71,629 | 117,504 | 123,072 | 56,320 | Rock | RedHat |
| HP DL580 G5 | 4x 2.66 X7460 | 50,013 | 97,632 | 69,600 | 40,800 | Rock | RedHat |
* Banking - SPECweb2005-Banking
Ecomm - SPECweb2005-Ecommerce
Support - SPECweb2005-Support
Hardware Configuration:
1 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 with
Server Software Configuration:
Network configuration:
Back-end Simulator:
1 Sun Fire X4270 with
Clients:
8 Sun Blade™ T6320
8 Sun Blade™ 6270
SPECweb2005, successor to SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL, is an industry standard benchmark for evaluating Web Server performance developed by SPEC. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions accessing a Web Server and generating static and dynamic HTTP requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 (8 cores, 1 chip) 100209 SPECweb2005, was submitted to SPEC for review on October 13, 2009. HP ProLiant DL370 G6 (8 cores, 2 chips) 83,073 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL585 G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 71,629 SPECweb2005. HP ProLiant DL580 G5 (24 cores, 4 chips) 50,013 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of Oct 10, 2009.
World Record on 32-processor using SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).
SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(New version of the benchmark as of January 2009)
| System | OS Database | Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release | SAPS | Date |
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| Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 32xSPARC 64 VII @2.88GHz 1024 GB | Solaris 10 Oracle10g | 17,430 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 95,480 | 12-Oct-09 |
| IBM System 550 4xPower6@5GHz 64 GB | AIX 6.1 DB2 9.5 | 3,752 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 20,520 | 16-Jun-09 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Certified Result:
| Number of SAP SD benchmark users: | 17,430 | ||
| Average dialog response time: | 0.95 seconds | ||
| Throughput: | |||
| Fully processed order line items/hour: | 1,909,670 | ||
| Dialog steps/hour: | 5,729,000 | ||
| SAPS: | 95,480 | ||
| SAP Certification: | 2009038 | ||
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark
Sun and Oracle demonstrate the World's fastest database performance. Sun Microsystems using 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers, 60 Sun Storage F5100 Flash arrays and Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning delivered a world-record TPC-C benchmark result.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster result delivered a world record TPC-C benchmark result of 7,646,486.7 tpmC and $2.36 $/tpmC (USD) using Oracle 11g R1 on a configuration available 12/14/09.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster beats the performance of the IBM Power 595 (5GHz) with IBM DB2 9.5 database by 26% and has 16% better price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
The complete Oracle/Sun solution used 10.7x better computational density than the IBM configuration (computational density = performance/rack).
The complete Oracle/Sun solution used 8 times fewer racks than the IBM configuration.
The complete Oracle/Sun solution has 5.9x better power/performance than the IBM configuration.
The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster beats the performance of the HP Superdome (1.6GHz Itanium2) by 87% and has 19% better price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
The Oracle/Sun solution utilized Sun FlashFire technology to deliver this result. The Sun Storage F5100 flash array was used for database storage.
Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning scales and effectively uses all of the nodes in this configuration to produce the world record performance.
This result showed Sun and Oracle's integrated hardware and software stacks provide industry-leading performance.
More information on this benchmark will be posted in the next several days.
System | tpmC | Price/tpmC | Avail | Database | Cluster | Racks | w/KtpmC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 7,646,487 | 2.36 USD | 12/14/09 | Oracle 11g RAC | Y | 9 | 9.6 |
| IBM Power 595 | 6,085,166 | 2.81 USD | 12/10/08 | IBM DB2 9.5 | N | 76 | 56.4 |
| Bull Escala PL6460R | 6,085,166 | 2.81 USD | 12/15/08 | IBM DB2 9.5 | N | 71 | 56.4 |
| HP Integrity Superdome | 4,092,799 | 2.93 USD | 08/06/07 | Oracle 10g R2 | N | 46 | to be added |
Avail - Availability date
w/KtmpC - Watts per 1000 tpmC
Racks - clients, servers, storage, infrastructure
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
TPC-C is an OLTP system benchmark. It simulates a complete environment where a population of terminal operators executes transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities (transactions) of an order-entry environment. These transactions include entering and delivering orders, recording payments, checking the status of orders, and monitoring the level of stock at the warehouses.
POSTSCRIPT: Here are some comments on IBM's grasping-at-straws-perf/core attacks on the TPC-C result:
c0t0d0s0 blog: "IBM's Reaction to Sun&Oracle TPC-C
See Also
TPC Benchmark C, tpmC, and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Performance Processing Council (TPC). 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Cluster (1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus, 4 processor) with Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters and Partitioning, 7,646,486.7 tpmC, $2.36/tpmC. Available 12/14/09. IBM Power 595 (5GHz Power6, 32 chips, 64 cores, 128 threads) with IBM DB2 9.5, 6,085,166 tpmC, $2.81/tpmC, available 12/10/08. HP Integrity Superdome(1.6GHz Itanium2, 64 processors, 128 cores, 256 threads) with Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition, 4,092,799 tpmC, $2.93/tpmC. Available 8/06/07. Source: www.tpc.org, results as of 10/11/09.
World Record 2-processor performance result on the two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 enhancement pack 4 (unicode) standard sales and distribution (SD) benchmark on the Sun Fire X4270 server.
The Sun Fire X4270 server with two Intel Xeon X5570 processors (8 cores, 16 threads) achieved 3,800 SAP SD Benchmark users running SAP ERP application release 6.0 enhancement pack 4 benchmark with unicode software, using Oracle 10g database and Solaris 10 operating system.
This benchmark result highlights the optimal performance of SAP ERP on Sun Fire servers running the Solaris OS and the seamless multilingual support available for systems running SAP applications.
The Sun Fire X4270 server using 2 Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 48 GB memory and the Solaris 10 operating system beat the HP ProLiant BL460c G6 server using 2 Intel Xeon X5570 processors, 48 GB memory and the Windows Server 2008 operating system.
In January 2009, a new version, the Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark, was released. This new release has higher cpu requirements and so yields from 25-50% fewer users compared to the previous Two-tier SAP ERP 6.0 (non-unicode) Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Benchmark. 10-30% of this is due to the extra overhead from the processing of the larger character strings due to Unicode encoding. Refer to SAP Note for more details. Note: username and password for SAP Service Marketplace required.
Unicode is a computing standard that allows for the representation and manipulation of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Before the Unicode requirement, this benchmark used ASCII characters meaning each was just 1 byte. The new version of the benchmark requires Unicode characters and the Application layer (where ~90% of the cycles in this benchmark are spent) uses a new encoding, UTF-16, which uses 2 bytes to encode most characters (including all ASCII characters) and 4 bytes for some others. This requires computers to do more computation and use more bandwidth and storage for most character strings. Refer to SAP Note for more details. Note: username and password for SAP Service Marketplace required.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).
SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(New version of the benchmark as of January 2009)
| System | OS Database | Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release | SAPS | SAPS/ Proc | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X4270 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Solaris 10 Oracle 10g | 3,800 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 21,000 | 10,500 | 21-Aug-09 |
| IBM System 550 4xPower6 @5GHz 64 GB | AIX 6.1 DB2 9.5 | 3,752 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 20,520 | 5,130 | 16-Jun-09 |
| Sun Fire X4270 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Solaris 10 Oracle 10g | 3,700 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 20,300 | 10,150 | 30-Mar-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL460c G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,415 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 18,670 | 9,335 | 04-Aug-09 |
| Fujitsu PRIMERGY TX/RX 300 S5 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,328 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 18,170 | 9,085 | 13-May-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL460c G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,310 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 18,070 | 9,035 | 27-Mar-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,300 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 18,030 | 9,015 | 27-Mar-09 |
| Fujitsu PRIMERGY BX920 S1 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,260 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 17,800 | 8,900 | 18-Jun-09 |
| NEC Express5800 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,250 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 17,750 | 8,875 | 28-Jul-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 MaxDB 7.8 | 3,171 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 17,380 | 8,690 | 17-Apr-09 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
Certified Results:
Performance: 3800 benchmark users
SAP Certification: 2009033
SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.
Set up the storage (LSI-OEM) to deliver the needed raw devices directly out of the storage and do not use any software layer in between.
SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info: www.sap.com/benchmark
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server running the Sun Java Messaging server 6.3 achieved World Record SPECmail2009 results using ZFS.
SPECmail2009 (ordered by performance)
| System | Processors | Performance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Ch, Co, Th | SPECmail_Ent2009 Users | SPECmail2009 Sessions/hour | |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1.6 | 2, 16, 128 | 12,000 | 57,758 |
| Sun Fire X4275 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2, 8, 16 | 8,000 | 38,348 |
| Apple Xserv3,1 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2, 8, 16 | 6,000 | 28,887 |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1.4 | 1, 8, 64 | 3,600 | 17,316 |
Notes:
Number of SPECmail_Ent2009 users (bigger is better)
SPECmail2009 Sessions/hour (bigger is better)
Ch, Co, Th: Chips, Cores, Threads
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org
Hardware Configuration:
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240
2 x 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors
128 GB
8 x 146GB, 10K RPM SAS disks
6 x Sun StorageTek 2540 Arrays,
4 arrays with 12 x 146GB 15K RPM SAS disks
2 arrays with 12 x 73GB 15K RPM SAS disks
2 x Sun Fire X4600 benchmark manager, load generator and mail sink
8 x AMD Opteron 8356 2.7 GHz QC processors
64 GB
2 x 73GB 10K RPM SAS disks
Sun Fire X4240 load generator
2 x AMD Opteron 2384 2.7 GHz DC processors
16 GB
2 x 73GB 10K RPM SAS disks
Software Configuration:
Solaris 10
ZFS
Sun Java Communication Suite 5
Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.3
The SPECmail2009 benchmark measures the ability of corporate e-mail systems to meet today's demanding e-mail users over fast corporate local area networks (LAN). The SPECmail2009 benchmark simulates corporate mail server workloads that range from 250 to 10,000 or more users, using industry standard SMTP and IMAP4 protocols. This e-mail server benchmark creates client workloads based on a 40,000 user corporation, and uses folder and message MIME structures that include both traditional office documents and a variety of rich media content. The benchmark also adds support for encrypted network connections using industry standard SSL v3.0 and TLS 1.0 technology. SPECmail2009 replaces all versions of SPECmail2008, first released in August 2008. The results from the two benchmarks are not comparable.
Software on one or more client machines generates a benchmark load for a System Under Test (SUT) and measures the SUT response times. A SUT can be a mail server running on a single system or a cluster of systems.
A SPECmail2009 'run' simulates a 100% load level associated with the specific number of users, as defined in the configuration file. The mail server must maintain a specific Quality of Service (QoS) at the 100% load level to produce a valid benchmark result. If the mail server does maintain the specified QoS at the 100% load level, the performance of the mail server is reported as SPECmail_Ent2009 SMTP and IMAP Users at SPECmail2009 Sessions per hour. The SPECmail_Ent2009 users at SPECmail2009 Sessions per Hour metric reflects the unique workload combination for a SPEC IMAP4 user.
Each Sun StorageTek 2540 array was configured with 6 hardware RAID1 volumes. A total of 36 RAID1 volumes were configured with 24 of size 146GB and 12 of size 73GB. Four ZPOOLs of (6x146GB RAID1 volumes) were mounted as the four primary message stores and ZFS file systems. Four ZPOOLs of (8x73GB RAID1 volumes) were mounted as the four primary message indexes. The hardware RAID1 volumes were created with 64K stripe size without read ahead turned on. The 7x146GB internal drives were used to create four ZPOOLs and ZFS file systems for the LDAP, store metadata, queue and the mailserver log.
The clients used these Java options: java -d64 -Xms4096m -Xmx4096m -XX:+AggressiveHeap
See the SPEC Report for all OS, network and messaging server tunings.
SPEC, SPECmail reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 08/07/2009 on www.spec.org. SPECmail2009: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (16 cores, 2 chips) SPECmail_Ent2009 12000 users at 57,758 SPECmail2009 Sessions/hour. Apple Xserv3,1 (8 cores, 2 chips) SPECmail_Ent2009 6000 users at 28,887 SPECmail2009 Sessions/hour.
Sun has upgraded the UltraSPARC T2 and UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors to 1.6 GHz. As described in some detail in yesterday's post, new results show SPEC CPU2006 performance improvements vs. previous systems that often exceed the clock speed improvement. The scaling can be attributed to both memory system improvements and software improvements, such as the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler.
A MHz improvement within a product line is often useful. If yesterday's chip runs at speed n and today's at n*1.12 then, intuitively, sure, I'll take today's.
Comparing MHz across product lines is often counter-intuitive. Consider that Sun's new systems provide:
The comparisons are particularly striking when one takes into account the cache size advantage for both the POWER6+ and the Itanium 9150N, and the MHz advantage for the POWER6+:
| Processor | GHz | Number of hw cache levels | Size of last cache (per chip) | SPECint_rate_base2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UltraSPARC T2 UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1.6 | 2 | 4 MB | 1 chip: 89 2 chips: 171 4 chips: 338 |
| POWER6+ | 4.7 | 3 | 32 MB | Best 2 chip result: 102. UltraSPARC T2 Plus delivers 68% more integer throughput [1] |
| Itanium 9150N | 1.6 | 3 | 24 MB | Best 4 chip result: 114. UltraSPARC T2 Plus delivers 3x the integer throughput. [2] |
These are per-chip results, not per-core or per-thread. Sun's CMT processors are designed for overall system throughput: how much work can the overall system get done.
A mystery: With comparatively smaller caches and modest clock rates, why do the Sun CMT processors win?
The performance hole: Memory latency. From the point of view of a CPU chip, the big performance problem is that memory latency is inordinately long compared to chip cycle times.
A hardware designer can attempt to cover up that latency with very large caches, as in the POWER6+ and Itanium, and this works well when running a small number of modest-sized applications. Large caches become less helpful, though, as workloads become more complex.
MHz isn't everything. In fact, MHz hardly counts at all when the problem is memory latency. Suppose the hot part of an application looks like this:
loop:
computational instruction
computational instruction
computational instruction
memory access instruction
branch to loop
For an application that looks like this, the computational instructions may complete in only a few cycles, while the memory access instruction may easily require on the order of 100ns - which, for a 1 GHz chip, is on the order of 100 cycles. If the processor speed is increased by a factor of 4, but memory speed is not, then memory is still 100ns away, and when measured in cycles, it is now 400 cycles distant. The overall loop hardly speeds up at all.
Lest the reader think I am making this up - consider page 8 of this IBM talk from April, 2008 regarding the POWER6:
The IBM POWER systems have some impressive performance characteristics - if your application is tiny enough to fit in its first or second level cache. But memory latency is not impressive. If your workload requires multiple concurrent threads accessing a large memory space, Sun's CMT approach just might be a better fit.
Operating System Overhead A context switch from one process to another is mediated by operating system services. The OS parks context from the process that is currently running - typically saving dozens of program registers and other context (such as virtual address space information); decides which process to run next (which may require access to several OS data structures); and loads the context for the new process (registers, virtual address context, etc.). If the system is running many processes, then caches are unlikely to be helpful during this context switch, and thousands of cycles may be spent on main memory accesses.
Design for throughput: Sun's CMT approach handles the complexity of real-world applications by allowing up to 64 processes to be simultaneously on-chip. When a long-latency stall occurs, such as an access to main memory, the chip switches to executing instructions on behalf of other, non-stalled threads, thus improving overall system throughput. No operating system intervention is required as resources are shared among the processes on the chip.
[1] http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2009q2/cpu2006-20090427-07263.html
[2] http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2009q2/cpu2006-20090522-07485.html
Competitive results retrieved from www.spec.org 20 July 2009. Sun's CMT results have been submitted to SPEC. SPEC, SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with two UltraSPARC T2 processors running at 1.6 GHz delivered World Record ZXTM HTTPThroughput results.
| System | Gb/sec | $ (HW+SW) | $/perf ($/Gb/sec) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 (2x 1.6GHz US T2 Plus) | 13.4 | $74K | 5.5K |
| f5 BIG-IP VIPRION | 10.0 | $141K | 14.1K |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 (2x 1.2GHz US T2 Plus) | 9.1 | $55K | 6.1K |
| f5 BIG-IP 8800 | 7.0 | $105K | 15.1K |
| f5 BIG-IP 6900 | 6.0 | $71K | 11.8K |
| Citrix 12000 | 6.0 | $110K | 18.3K |
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1x 1.2GHz US T2) | 5.9 | $46K | 7.8K |
| Citrix 10010 | 4.8 | $85K | 17.7K |
Performance graph of f5, Citrix and previous Sun results at: http://www.zeus.com/news/press_articles/zeus-price-performance-press-release.html?gclid=CLn4jLuuk5cCFQsQagod7gTkJA.
Software Configuration:
The benchmark tests HTTP Throughput for Persistent HTTP connections. Large files bandwidth (Gbit/s) is measured by fetching large files. Load is applied by using ZeusBench, a benchmarking tool in ZXTM 5.1r1, and is used for Zeus internal performance testing and as a load generation tool. Multiple clients request 100MB files over http via the ZXTM load balancer.
Performance on the Zeus Website
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors delivered the best single system performance of 28K concurrent users on the Oracle BI EE benchmark. This result used Solaris 10 with Solaris Containers and the Oracle 11g Database software.
The benchmark demonstrates the scalability of Oracle Business Intelligence Cluster with 4 nodes running in Solaris Containers within single Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise Server T5440 server with internal SSD and the ZFS file system showed significant I/O performance improvement over traditional disk for Business Intelligence Web Catalog activity.
| System | Processors | Users | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chips | Cores | Threads | GHz | Type | ||
| 1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 | 4 | 32 | 256 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 28,000 |
| 5 x Sun Fire T2000 | 1 | 8 | 32 | 1.2 | UltraSPARC T1 | 10,000 |
Software Configuration:
The user population was divided into a mix of administrative users and business users. A maximum of 28,000 concurrent users were actively interacting and working in the system during the steady-state period. The tests executed 580 transactions per second, with think times of 60 seconds per user, between requests. In the test scenario 95% of the workload consisted of business users viewing reports and navigating within dashboards. The remaining 5% of the concurrent users, categorized as administrative users, were doing application development.
The benchmark scenario used a typical business user sequence of dashboard navigation, report viewing, and drill down. For example, a Service Manager logs into the system and navigates to his own set of dashboards viz. .Service Manager.. The user then selects the .Service Effectiveness. dashboard, which shows him four distinct reports, .Service Request Trend., .First Time Fix Rate., .Activity Problem Areas., and .Cost Per completed Service Call . 2002 till 2005. . The user then proceeds to view the .Customer Satisfaction. dashboard, which also contains a set of 4 related reports. He then proceeds to drill-down on some of the reports to see the detail data. Then the user proceeds to more dashboards, for example .Customer Satisfaction. and .Service Request Overview.. After navigating through these dashboards, he logs out of the application
This benchmark did not use a synthetic database schema. The benchmark tests were run on a full production version of the Oracle Business Intelligence Applications with a fully populated underlying database schema. The business processes in the test scenario closely represents a true customer scenario.
Since the server has 32 cores, we created 4 x Solaris Containers with 8 cores dedicated to each of the containers. And a total of four instances of BI server + Presentation server (collectively referred as an 'instance' here onwards) were installed at one instance per container. All the four BI instances were clustered using the BI Cluster software components.
The ZFS file system was used to overcome the 'Too many links' error when there are ~28,000 concurrent users. Earlier the file system has reached UFS limitation of 32767 sub-directories (LINK_MAX) with ~28K users online -- and there are thousands of errors due to the inability to create new directories beyond 32767 directories within a directory. Web Catalog stores the user profile on the disk by creating at least one dedicated directory for each user. If there are more than 25,000 concurrent users, clearly ZFS is the way to go.
Oracle Business Intelligence Website, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE has other results
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).
SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(New version of the benchmark as of January 2009)
| System | OS Database | Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release | SAPS | SAPS/ Proc | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server 4xUltraSPARC T2 Plus@1.6GHz 256 GB | Solaris 10 Oracle10g | 4,720 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 25,830 | 6,458 | 21-Jul-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL585 G6 4xAMD Opteron 8439 SE @2.8Hz 64 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 4,665 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 25,530 | 6,383 | 10-Jul-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL685c G6 4xAMD Opteron Processor 8435 @2.6GHz 64 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 4,422 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 24,230 | 6,058 | 29-May-09 |
| IBM System 550 4xPower6@5GHz 64 GB | AIX 6.1 DB2 9.5 | 3,752 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 20,520 | 5,130 | 16-Jun-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL585 G5 4xAMD Opteron Processor 8393 SE@3.1GHz 64 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,430 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 18,730 | 4,683 | 24-Apr-09 |
| HP ProLiant BL685 G6 4xAMD Opteron Processor 8389 @2.9GHz 64 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 3,118 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 17,050 | 4,263 | 24-Apr-09 |
| NEC Express5800 4xIntel Xeon Processor X7460@2.66GHz 64 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 2,957 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 16,170 | 4,043 | 28-May-09 |
| Dell PowerEdge M905 4xAMD Opteron Processor 8384@2.7GHz 96 GB | Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2005 | 2,129 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 11,770 | 2,943 | 18-May-09 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
Certified Results
| Performance: | 4720 benchmark users | |
| SAP Certification: | 2009026 |
SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.
Reported 07/21/09
Results are presented for the SPEC CPU2006 rate benchmarks run on the new 1.6 GHz Sun UltraSPARC T2 and Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors based systems. The new processors were tested in the Sun CMT family of systems, including the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120, T5220, T5240, T5440 servers and the Sun Blade T6320 server module.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, delivered 57% and 37% better results than the best 4-chip IBM POWER6+ based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server equipped with two 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, produced 68% and 48% better results than the best 2-chip IBM POWER6+ based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
The single-chip 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor-based Sun CMT servers produced 59% to 68% better results than the best single-chip IBM POWER6 based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
On the four-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, when compared versus the 1.4 GHz version of this server, the new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor delivered performance improvements of 25% and 20% as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
The new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, when put into the 2-chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, delivered improvements of 20% and 17% when compared to the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor based server, as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
On the single-chip Sun Blade T6320 server module, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, the new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor delivered performance improvements of 13% to 17% over the 1.4 GHz version of these servers, as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 integer throughput metrics.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, delivered a SPECint_rate_base2006 score 3X the best 4-chip Itanium based system.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors, delivered a SPECint_rate_base2006 score of 338, a World Record score for 4-chip systems running a single operating system instance (i.e. SMP, not clustered).
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, delivered 35% and 22% better results than the best 4-chip IBM POWER6+ based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, equipped with two 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, produced 40% and 27% better results than the best 2-chip IBM POWER6+ based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
The single 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor based Sun CMT servers produced between 24% and 18% better results than the best single-chip IBM POWER6 based systems on the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
On the four chip Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, the new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor delivered performance improvements of 20% and 17% when compared to 1.4 GHz processors in the same system, as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
The new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor, when put into a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 server, delivered an improvement of 12% when compared to the 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor based server as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
On the single processor Sun Blade T6320 server module, Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and T5220 servers, the new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor delivered a performance improvement over the 1.4 GHz version of these servers of between 11% and 10% as measured by the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor chips, delivered a peak score 3X the best 4-chip Itanium based system, and base 2.9X, on the SPEC CPU2006 floating-point throughput metrics.
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results. All results as of 7/17/09.
In the tables below
"Base" = SPECint_rate_base2006 or SPECfp_rate_base2006
"Peak" = SPECint_rate2006 or SPECfp_rate2006
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| Supermicro X8DAI | 4/1 | Xeon W3570 | 3200 | 8 | 127 | 136 | Best Nehalem result |
| HP ProLiant BL465c G6 | 6/1 | Opteron 2435 | 2600 | 6 | 82.1 | 104 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5220 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 89.1 | 97.0 | New |
| Sun SPARC T5120 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 89.1 | 97.0 | New |
| Sun Blade T6320 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 89.2 | 96.7 | New |
| Sun Blade T6320 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1417 | 63 | 76.4 | 85.5 | |
| Sun SPARC T5120 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1417 | 63 | 76.2 | 83.9 | |
| IBM System p 570 | 2/1 | POWER6 | 4700 | 4 | 53.2 | 60.9 | Best POWER6 result |
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| Fujitsu CELSIUS R670 | 8/2 | Xeon W5580 | 3200 | 16 | 249 | 267 | Best Nehalem result |
| Sun Blade X6270 | 8/2 | Xeon X5570 | 2933 | 16 | 223 | 260 | |
| A+ Server 1021M-UR+B | 12/2 | Opteron 2439 SE | 2800 | 12 | 168 | 215 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5240 | 16/2 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1582 | 127 | 171 | 183 | New |
| Sun SPARC T5240 | 16/2 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1415 | 127 | 142 | 157 | |
| IBM Power 520 | 4/2 | POWER6+ | 4700 | 8 | 101 | 124 | Best POWER6+ peak |
| IBM Power 520 | 4/2 | POWER6+ | 4700 | 8 | 102 | 122 | Best POWER6+ base |
| HP Integrity rx2660 | 4/2 | Itanium 9140M | 1666 | 4 | 58.1 | 62.8 | Best Itanium peak |
| HP Integrity BL860c | 4/2 | Itanium 9140M | 1666 | 4 | 61.0 | na | Best Itanium base |
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| SGI Altix ICE 8200EX | 16/4 | Xeon X5570 | 2933 | 32 | 466 | 499 | Best Nehalem result Note: clustered, not SMP |
| Tyan Thunder n4250QE | 24/4 | Opteron 8439 SE | 2800 | 24 | 326 | 417 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5440 | 32/4 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1596 | 255 | 338 | 360 | New. World record for 4-chip SMP SPECint_rate_base2006 |
| Sun SPARC T5440 | 32/4 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1414 | 255 | 270 | 301 | |
| IBM Power 550 | 8/4 | POWER6+ | 5000 | 16 | 215 | 263 | Best POWER6 result |
| HP Integrity BL870c | 8/4 | Itanium 9150N | 1600 | 8 | 114 | na | Best Itanium result |
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| Supermicro X8DAI | 4/1 | Xeon W3570 | 3200 | 8 | 102 | 106 | Best Nehalem result |
| HP ProLiant BL465c G6 | 6/1 | Opteron 2435 | 2600 | 6 | 65.2 | 72.2 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5220 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 64.1 | 68.5 | New |
| Sun SPARC T5120 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 64.1 | 68.5 | New |
| Sun Blade T6320 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1582 | 63 | 64.1 | 68.5 | New |
| Sun Blade T6320 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1417 | 63 | 58.1 | 62.3 | |
| SPARC T5120 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1417 | 63 | 57.9 | 62.3 | |
| SPARC T5220 | 8/1 | UltraSPARC T2 | 1417 | 63 | 57.9 | 62.3 | |
| IBM System p 570 | 2/1 | POWER6 | 4700 | 4 | 51.5 | 58.0 | Best POWER6 result |
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| ASUS TS700-E6 | 8/2 | Xeon W5580 | 3200 | 16 | 201 | 207 | Best Nehalem result |
| A+ Server 1021M-UR+B | 12/2 | Opteron 2439 SE | 2800 | 12 | 133 | 147 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5240 | 16/2 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1582 | 127 | 124 | 133 | New |
| Sun SPARC T5240 | 16/2 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1415 | 127 | 111 | 119 | |
| IBM Power 520 | 4/2 | POWER6+ | 4700 | 8 | 88.7 | 105 | Best POWER6+ result |
| HP Integrity rx2660 | 4/4 | Itanium 9140M | 1666 | 4 | 54.5 | 55.8 | Best Itanium result |
| System | Processors | Base Copies | Performance Results | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cores/ Chips | Type | MHz | Base | Peak | |||
| SGI Altix ICE 8200EX | 16/4 | Xeon X5570 | 2933 | 32 | 361 | 372 | Best Nehalem result |
| Tyan Thunder n4250QE | 24/4 | Opteron 8439 SE | 2800 | 24 | 259 | 285 | Best Istanbul result |
| Sun SPARC T5440 | 32/4 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1596 | 255 | 254 | 270 | New |
| Sun SPARC T5440 | 32/4 | UltraSPARC T2 Plus | 1414 | 255 | 212 | 230 | |
| IBM Power 550 | 8/4 | POWER6+ | 5000 | 16 | 188 | 222 | Best POWER6+ result |
| HP Integrity rx7640 | 8/4 | Itanium 2 9040 | 1600 | 8 | 87.4 | 90.8 | Best Itanium result |
Test Configurations:
Results Summary:
| T6320 | T5120 | T5220 | T5240 | T5440 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SPECint_rate_base2006 | 89.2 | 89.1 | 89.1 | 171 | 338 |
| SPECint_rate2006 | 96.7 | 97.0 | 97.0 | 183 | 360 |
| SPECfp_rate_base2006 | 64.1 | 64.1 | 64.1 | 124 | 254 |
| SPECfp_rate2006 | 68.5 | 68.5 | 68.5 | 133 | 270 |
SPEC CPU2006 is SPEC's most popular benchmark, with over 7000 results published in the three years since it was introduced. It measures:
The rate metrics are used for the throughput-oriented systems described on this page. These metrics include:
There are "base" variants of both the above metrics that require more conservative compilation, such as using the same flags for all benchmarks.
See here for additional information.
Result on this page for the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 server were measured on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 and Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 are electronically equivalent. A SPARC Enterprise 5120 can hold up to 4 disks, and a T5220 can hold up to 8. This system was tested with 4 disks; therefore, results on this page apply to both the T5120 and the T5220.
Know when you need throughput vs. speed. The Sun CMT systems described on this page provide massive throughput, as demonstrated by the fact that up to 255 jobs are run on the 4-chip system, 127 on 2-chip, and 63 on 1-chip. Some of the competitive chips do have a speed advantage - e.g. Nehalem and Istanbul - but none of the competitive results undertake to run the large number of jobs tested on Sun's CMT systems.
Use the latest compiler. The Sun Studio group is always working to improve the compiler. Sun Studio 12, and Sun Studio 12 Update 1, which are used in these submissions, provide updated code generation for a wide variety of SPARC and x86 implementations.
I/O still counts. Even in a CPU-intensive workload, some I/O remains. This point is explored in some detail at http://blogs.sun.com/jhenning/entry/losing_my_fear_of_zfs.
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive results from www.spec.org as of 16 July 2009. Sun's new results quoted on this page have been submitted to SPEC.
Sun Blade T6320 89.2 SPECint_rate_base2006, 96.7 SPECint_rate2006, 64.1 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 68.5 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220/T5120 89.1 SPECint_rate_base2006, 97.0 SPECint_rate2006, 64.1 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 68.5 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 172 SPECint_rate_base2006, 183 SPECint_rate2006, 124 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 133 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 338 SPECint_rate_base2006, 360 SPECint_rate2006, 254 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 270 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun Blade T6320 76.4 SPECint_rate_base2006, 85.5 SPECint_rate2006, 58.1 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220/T5120 76.2 SPECint_rate_base2006, 83.9 SPECint_rate2006, 57.9 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 62.3 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 142 SPECint_rate_base2006, 157 SPECint_rate2006, 111 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 119 SPECfp_rate2006;
Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 270 SPECint_rate_base2006, 301 SPECint_rate2006, 212 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 230 SPECfp_rate2006;
IBM p 570 53.2 SPECint_rate_base2006, 60.9 SPECint_rate2006, 51.5 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 58.0 SPECfp_rate2006;
IBM Power 520 102 SPECint_rate_base2006, 124 SPECint_rate2006, 88.7 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 105 SPECfp_rate2006;
IBM Power 550 215 SPECint_rate_base2006, 263 SPECint_rate2006, 188 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 222 SPECfp_rate2006;
HP Integrity BL870c 114 SPECint_rate_base2006;
HP Integrity rx7640 87.4 SPECfp_rate_base2006, 90.8 SPECfp_rate2006.
bops: SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bigger is better)
| System | Processors | Performance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chips | Cores | Threads | GHz | Type | SPECjbb2005 bops | SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM | ||
| Sun Blade T6320 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 1.6 | UltraSPARC T2 | 229576 | 28697 | |
| Fujitsu TX100 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 223691 | 111846 | |
| IBM x3200 M2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 214578 | 107289 | |
| Fujitsu RX100 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.16 | Intel Xeon | 211144 | 105572 | |
| IBM x3350 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3.0 | Intel Xeon | 194256 | 97128 | |
| Sun SE T5120 | 1 | 8 | 64 | 1.4 | UltraSPARC T2 | 192055 | 24007 | |
| IBM p 570 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4.7 | POWER6 | 88089 | 88089 | |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website http://www.spec.org.
Software Configuration:
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).
Sun and Microsoft combined to deliver World Record price performance for Windows based results on the TPC-H benchmark at the 300GB scale factor. Using Microsoft's SQL Server 2008 Enterprise database along with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 operating system on the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server, the result of 2.80 $/QphH@300GB (USD) was delivered.
This is Sun's first published TPC-H SQL Server benchmark.
ch/co/th = chips, cores, threads
$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
| System | ch/co/th | Processor | Database | QphH | $/QphH | Price | Disks | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X4600 M2 | 8/32/32 | 2.7 Opteron 8384 | SQL Server 2008 | 55,158 | 2.80 | $154,284 | 168 | 07/06/09 |
| HP DL785 | 8/32/32 | 2.7 Opteron 8384 | SQL Server 2008 | 57,684 | 3.24 | $186,700 | 204 | 11/17/08 |
| IBM x3950 M2 | 8/32/32 | 2.93 Intel X7350 | SQL Server 2005 | 46,034 | 5.40 | $248,635 | 300 | 03/07/08 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the TPC benchmark website http://www.tpc.org.
Server:
Storage:
Software:
Audited Results:
| Database Size: | 300GB (Scale Factor) |
| TPC-H Composite: | 55,157.5 QphH@300GB |
| Price/performance: | $2.80 / QphH@300GB (USD) |
| Available: | July 6, 2009 |
| Total 3 Year Cost: | $154,284.19 (USD) |
| TPC-H Power: | 67,095.6 |
| TPC-H Throughput: | 45,343.5 |
| Database Load Time: | 17 hours 29 minutes |
| Storage Ratio: | 76.82 |
The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.
TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.
The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.
SQL Server 2008 is able to take advantage of the lower latency local memory access provides on the Sun Fire 4600 M2 server. This was achieved by setting the NUMA initialization parameter to enable all NUMA optimizations.
Enabling the Windows large-page feature provided a significant performance improvement. Because SQL Server 2008 manages its own memory buffer, the use of large-pages resulted in significant performance increase. Note that to use large-pages, an application must be part of the large-page group of the OS (Windows).
The 64-bit Windows OS and 64-bit SQL Server software were able to utilize the 256GB of memory available on the Sun Fire 4600 M2 server.
TPC-H@300GB: Sun Fire X4600 M2 55,158 QphH@300GB, $2.80/QphH@300GB, availability 7/6/09; HP DL785, 57,684 QphH@300GB, $3.24/QphH@300GB, availability 11/17/08; IBM x3950 M2, 46,034 QphH@300GB, $5.40/QphH@300GB, availability 03/07/08; TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.
This blog copyright 2009 by John Henning
Page 2 -The Sun Blade X6275 cluster, equipped with 2.93 GHz Intel QC X5570 processors and QDR InfiniBand interconnect, delivered the best performance at 32, 64 and 128 cores for the RADIOSS Neon_1M and Taurus_Frontal benchmarks.
RADIOSS Public Benchmark Test Suite | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Results are Total Elapsed Run Times (sec.) | ||||
System | cores | Benchmark Test Case | ||
| TAURUS_FRONTAL 1.8M | NEON_1M 1.06M | NEON_300K 277K | ||
| SGI Altix ICE 8200 IP95 2.93GHz, 32 nodes, DDR | 256 | 3559 | 1672 | 310 |
| Sun Blade X6275 2.93GHz, 16 nodes, QDR | 128 | 4397 | 1627 | 361 |
| SGI Altix ICE 8200 IP95 2.93GHz, 16 nodes, DDR | 128 | 5033 | 2422 | 360 |
| Sun Blade X6275 2.93GHz, 8 nodes, QDR | 64 | 5934 | 2526 | 587 |
| SGI Altix ICE 8200 IP95 2.93GHz, 8 nodes, DDR | 64 | 6181 | 4088 | 584 |
| Sun Blade X6275 2.93GHz, 4 nodes, QDR | 32 | 9764 | 4720 | 1035 |
| SGI Altix ICE 8200 IP95 2.93GHz, 4 nodes, DDR | 32 | 10120 | 7574 | 1017 |
Software Configuration:
Please go here for a more complete description of the tests.
The Intel QC X5570 processors include a turbo boost feature coupled with a speed-step option in the CPU section of the Advanced BIOS settings. Under specific circumstances, this can provide cpu overclocking which increases the processor frequency from 2.93GHz to 3.2GHz. This feature was was enabled when generating the results reported here.
Node to Node MPI ping-pong tests show a bandwidth of 3000 MB/sec on the Sun Blade X6275 cluster using QDR. The same tests performed on a Sun Fire X2270 cluster and equipped with DDR interconnect produced a bandwidth of 1500 MB/sec. On another recent Intel based Sun Fire X2250 cluster (3.4 GHz DC E5272 processors) also equipped with DDR interconnects, the bandwidth was 1250 MB/sec. This same Sun Fire X2250 cluster equipped with SDR IB interconnect produced an MPI ping-pong bandwidth of 975 MB/sec.
All information on the Fluent website is Copyright 2009 Altair Engineering, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Results from http://www.altairhyperworks.com/Benchmark.aspx
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.
On the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark, Sun delivered 4.7 times more performance than the IBM power 595 (5GHz POWER6); this IBM system requires a slightly larger cabinet than the Sun Blade 6048 chassis (details below).
On the SPECfp_rate_base2006 benchmark Sun delivered 3.9 times more performance than the largest IBM power 595 (5GHz POWER6); this IBM system requires a slightly larger cabinet than the Sun Blade 6048 chassis (details below).
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.
| 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.
| 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.
Software Configuration:
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.
Sun has shown 4.7x greater SPECint_rate_base2006 and 3.9x greater SPECfp_rate_base2006 in a slightly smaller cabinet. IBM specifications are at: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware/595/specs.html. One frame (slimline doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 58.5"D weight: 3,376 lb. One frame (acoustic doors): 79.3"H x 30.5"W x 71.1"D weight: 3,422 lb. The Sun Blade 6048 specifications are at: http://www.sun.com/servers/blades/6048chassis/specs.xml One Sun Blade 6048: 81.6"H x 23.9"W x 40.3"D weight: 2,300 lb (fully configured).
Sun Studio 12 Update 1 includes improvements in the compiler's ability to automatically parallelise codes - afterall the easiest way to develop parallel applications is if the compiler can do it for you; improvements to the support of parallelisation specifications like OpenMP, this release includes support for the latest OpenMP 3.0 specification; and improvements in the tools and their ability to provide the developer meaningful feedback about parallel code, for example the ability of the Performance Analyzer to profile MPI code.
SPEC CPU2006 Performance Charts - bigger is better, selected results, please see www.spec.org for complete results.
| System | Processors | Performance Results | Notes (1) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Peak | Base | ||
| Sun Blade X6275 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 37.4 | 31.0 | New Record |
| ASUS TS700-E6 (Z8PE-D12X) | Xeon W5580 | 3.2 | 2 | 8 | 37.3 | 33.2 | Previous Best |
| Fujitsu R670 | Xeon W5580 | 3.2 | 2 | 8 | 37.2 | 33.2 | |
| Sun Blade X6270 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 36.9 | 32.0 | |
| Fujitsu Celsius R570 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 36.3 | 32.2 | |
| YOYOtech MLK1610 | Intel Core i7-965 | 3.73 | 1 | 4 | 36.0 | 32.5 | |
| HP ProLiant DL585 G5 | Opteron 8393 | 3.1 | 1 | 1 | 23.4 | 19.7 | Best Opteron |
| IBM System p570 | POWER6 | 4.70 | 1 | 1 | 21.7 | 17.8 | Best POWER6 |
(1) Results as of 22 June 2009 from www.spec.org and this report.
| System | Processors | Performance Results | Notes (2) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | GHz | Chips | Cores | Peak | Base | ||
| Sun Blade X6275 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 50.8 | 44.2 | New Record |
| Sun Blade X6270 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 50.4 | 45.0 | Previous Best |
| Sun Blade X4170 | Xeon X5570 | 2.93 | 2 | 8 | 48.9 | 43.9 | |
| Fujitsu R670 | Xeon W5580 | 3.2 | 2 | 8 | 42.2 | 39.5 | |
| HP ProLiant DL585 G5 | Opteron 8393 | 3.1 | 2 | 8 | 25.9 | 23.6 | Best Opteron |
| IBM Power 595 | POWER6 | 5.00 | 1 | 1 | 24.9 | 20.1 | Best POWER6 |
(2) Results as of 22 June 2009 from www.spec.org and this report.
Software Configuration:
SPEC, SPECint, SPECfp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 6/22/2009. Sun Blade X6275 (Intel X5570, 2 chips, 8 cores) 50.8 SPECfp2006, 37.4 SPECint2006; ASUS TS700-E6 (Intel W5570, 2 chips, 8 cores) 37.3 SPECint2006; Fujitsu R670 (Intel X5570, 2 chips, 8 cores) 42.2 SPECfp2006.
A new and exceptional TPC-H result submitted today has been obtained on a cluster of 43 Sun Fire X4540 servers, each equipped with two AMD Opteron 2356 2.3 GHz processors, running ParAccel Analytic Database on Sun OpenSolaris 2009.06. The Sun/ParAccel Cluster achieved a result of 1,050,556.20 QphH @30000GB with a price performance of $2.86/QphH @30000GB.
This is an incredible World Record for both performance and price-performance at the largest TPC-H Scale Factor (30TB) to date.
As of today, the only other 30TB result posted is on a single HP Superdome, powered by 64 x 1.6 GHz Itanium2 Dual Core processors running Oracle 10gR2. The HP result is 150,960 QphH @30000GB with a price-performance of $46.69/QphH @30000GB.
This result establishes the overall leadership of the Sun/ParAccel/OpenSolaris cluster solution in Decision Support Systems (DSS) and Data Warehousing.
The Sun Fire X4540 / ParAccel Cluster was over seven time (7x) faster than the HP Superdome and had sixteen times (16x) better price-performance. In addition, the total cost of the Sun/ParAccel configuration (H/W + S/W + 3 years maintenance) is less than half of the total cost of the HP/Oracle configuration.
ch/co/th = chips, cores, threads
$/QphH = TPC-H Price/Performance metric (smaller is better)
QphH = TPC-H Composite Metric (bigger is better)
System | ch/co/th | Database | QphH | $/QphH | Price | # Disks | Available |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43 x Sun Fire X4275 | 86/344/344 | PADB | 1,050,566 | 2.86 | $3,006,861 | 2064 | 06/21/09 |
| 1 x HP Superdome | 64/128/128 | Oracle | 150,960 | 46.69 | $7,048,342 | 3072 | 06/18/07 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the TPC benchmark website http://www.tpc.org.
Servers:
Storage:
Switches:
Software:
Audited Results:
| Database Size: | 30,000 GB (Scale Factor) |
| TPC-H Composite: | 1,050,566.20 QphH@30000GB |
| Price/performance: | $2.86 / QphH@30000GB |
| Available: | June 21, 2009 |
| Total 3 Year Cost: | $3,006,861 |
| TPC-H Power: | 1,326,910.40 |
| TPC-H Throughput: | 831,758.00 |
| Database Load Time: | ~3 Hours 29 minutes |
| Storage Ratio: | 32.04 |
The TPC-H benchmark is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to demonstrate Data Warehousing/Decision Support Systems (DSS). TPC-H measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various DSS systems. These queries and updates are executed against a standard database under controlled conditions. Performance projections and comparisons between different TPC-H Database sizes (100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB and 10000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.
TPC-H is a data warehousing-oriented, non-industry-specific benchmark that consists of a large number of complex queries typical of decision support applications. It also includes some insert and delete activity that is intended to simulate loading and purging data from a warehouse. TPC-H measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system.
The main performance metric reported by TPC-H is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@SF, where SF is the number of GB of raw data, referred to as the scale factor). QphH@SF is intended to summarize the ability of the system to process queries in both single and multi user modes. The benchmark requires reporting of price/performance, which is the ratio of QphH to total HW/SW cost plus 3 years maintenance. A secondary metric is the storage efficiency, which is the ratio of total configured disk space in GB to the scale factor.
ParAccel PADB is one of a new generation of DBMS designed specifically for Decision Support and Data Warehousing applications.The Sun Fire X4540 and OpenSolaris2009.06 are a perfect match for the PADB solution. The Sun Fire X4540 with its large amount of internal storage in a compact form factor and OpenSolaris with ISM shared memory management, network performance and powerful Dtrace performance analysis tools.
Below are the main architectural features of the ParAccel product:
The ParAccel software does not require expensive proprietary hardware. Shared nothing clusters of small and low cost systems can provide adequate memory for aggressively compressed database engines to achieve performance levels far above the levels achievable by conventional database engines. In addition, the software does not require expensive special networking infrastructure but instead provides excellent performance just running on standard GbE equipment.
Sun Fire X4540 TPC-H Executive Summary Report Acrobat PDF (402K)
Complete Sun Fire X4540 TPC-H Full Disclosure Report Acrobat PDF (819K)
TPC-H@30000GB Sun Fire X4540 1,050,566 QphH@30000GB, $2.86/QphH@30000GB, availability 6/21/09. TPC-H, HP Integrity Superdome, 150,960 QphH @30000GB, $46.69 / QphH @30000GB, availability 06/18/07, QphH, $/QphH tm of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). More info www.tpc.org.
SAP-SD 2-Tier Performance Table (in decreasing performance order).
SAP ERP 6.0 Enhancement Pack 4 (Unicode) Results
(New version of the benchmark as of January 2009)
| System | OS Database | Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release | SAPS | SAPS/ Proc | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X4600 M2 8xAMD Opteron 8384 SE @2.7GHz 256 GB | Solaris 10 MaxDB 7.8 | 6,050 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 33,230 | 4,154 | 10-Jun-09 |
| HP ProLiant DL785 G5 8xAMD Opteron 8393 SE @3.1GHz 128 GB | Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition SQL Server 2008 | 5,518 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 30,180 | 3,772 | 24-Apr-09 |
| NEC Express 5800 8xIntel Xeon X7460 @2.66GHz 256 GB | Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition SQL Server 2008 | 4,485 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 25,280 | 12,640 | 09-Feb-09 |
| Sun Fire X4270 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Solaris 10 Oracle 10g | 3,700 | 2009 6.0 EP4 (Unicode) | 20,300 | 10,150 | 30-Mar-09 |
SAP ERP 6.0 (non-unicode) Results
(Old version of the benchmark retired at the end of 2008)
| System | OS Database | Users | SAP ERP/ECC Release | SAPS | SAPS/ Proc | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Fire X4600 M2 8xAMD Opteron 8384 @2.7GHz 128 GB | Solaris 10 MaxDB 7.6 | 7,825 | 2005 6.0 | 39,270 | 4,909 | 09-Dec-08 |
| IBM System x3650 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2003 EE DB2 9.5 | 5,100 | 2005 6.0 | 25,530 | 12,765 | 19-Dec-08 |
| HP ProLiant DL380 G6 2xIntel Xeon X5570 @2.93GHz 48 GB | Windows Server 2003 EE SQL Server 2005 | 4,995 | 2005 6.0 | 25,000 | 12,500 | 15-Dec-08 |
Complete benchmark results may be found at the SAP benchmark website http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
Hardware Configuration:
Software Configuration:
Certified Results
| Performance: | 6050 benchmark users | |
| SAP Certification: | 2009022 |
SAP is one of the premier world-wide ERP application providers, and maintains a suite of benchmark tests to demonstrate the performance of competitive systems on the various SAP products.
SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info www.sap.com/benchmark
Welcome to BestPerf group blog! This blog will contain many different performance results and the best practices learned from doing a wide variety of performance work on the broad range of Sun's products.
Over the coming days, you will see many engineers in the Strategic Applications Engineering group posting a wide variety topics and providing useful information to the users of Sun's technologies. Some of the areas explored will be:
world-record, performance, $/Perf, watts, watt/perf, scalability, bandwidth, RAS, virtualization, security, cluster, latency, HPC, Web, Application, Database
This blog copyright 2009 by John Henning
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