Solaris 10 Performance and Price/Performance Records
16 Performance and Price Performance Records
(The results here include current and past records.)
Mar. 2005 Solaris 10, Sun Studio 10 on Sun Fire V40z set new 2-thread and 4-thread world records on SPEC OMPM2001 (2 world records)
Sun announced the new world record SPEC OMPM2001 results in the two- and four-thread categories, further showcasing the power of the Sun Studio 10 and Solaris 10 OS duo coupled with the latest Sun Fire servers, which provide excellent deployment platforms for a number of high-performance and compute-intensive applications. For instance, the Sun Fire V40z server in a four CPU configuration, produced a peak result of 12,434, beating the 8,694 score reported with SuSe Linux and the leading commercially available compiler, by up to 43 percent1.
Since their introduction, Sun's x64 systems with the AMD Opteron processor continue to outperform comparably configured IBM and HP servers equipped with Power5 and Alpha processors, respectively. The Sun Fire V40z server, in a two-way configuration2, outruns the two-way Power5-based IBM eServer OpenPower 710 server by more than 32 percent using half the number of parallel threads3 and in a four-way configuration it beats the HP AlphaServer GS1280 7/1300 by up to 51 percent4.
The SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark is a test of the performance of 11 High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. All C and FORTRAN applications in this suite use the OpenMP programming model and were compiled using the Sun Studio 10 software.
OpenMP is a specification for a set of compiler directives, library routines, and environment variables that can be used to specify shared memory parallelism in Fortran and C/C++ programs and requires the user to declare the scope of each variable used in a parallel region.
SPEC and the benchmark names SPEComp and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published as of 03/21/05. For the latest benchmark results, visit spec.org. The 2-way and 2 CPU systems have two cores. The 4-way and 4 CPU systems have four cores. 64-bit systems have 64-bit capable implementation of the operating system and Java Virtual Machine. All new results have been submitted to SPEC.
Mar. 2005 Solaris 10, Sun Fire V40z server delivered world record 4-way 64-bit performance on SPECjbb2000.
Solaris 10, Sun Fire V40z and Java 2 Platform (J2SE 5.0), which was compiled using Studio 10 software, allowed Sun to claim another 4-way 64-bit world record on SPECjbb2000. The Sun Fire V40z server crossed the 110,000 JBB operations per second (JBBops/s) mark and set a new high watermark score of 116142 JBBops/s. The newest record on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, which measures the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, as well as the performance of the underlying operating system and the scalability of the system's processors and memory, clearly demonstrates that Solaris 10 delivers better results when used in combination with top performing AMD Opteron-based servers from Sun.
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published as of 03/21/05. For the latest benchmark results, visit spec.org. The 4-way systems have 4 cores. 64-bit systems have 64-bit capable implementation of the operating system and Java Virtual Machine. The Sun Fire V40z server (4xAMD Opteron Model 852, Solaris 10): 116142 JBBops/s.
Mar. 2005 Solaris 10, Sun Fire V20z at 2.6GHz delivered world record 2-way 64-bit performance on SPECjbb2000.
The new 64-bit 2-way world record on SPECjbb2000 benchmark demonstrates that Solaris 10 delivers better results than SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. Both systems had the same hardware configuration and used the latest AMD Opteron[tm] model 252 processors.
SPECjbb2000 (Java Business Benchmark) measure 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 metric is given in number of SPECjbb operations per second.
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published on www.spec.org as of 03/1/05. The Sun Fire V20z server (2xAMD Opteron Model 252, SLES9): 63,743 JBB ops/s. The Sun Fire V20z server (2xAMD Opteron Model 252, Solaris10): 65,840 JBB ops/s, submitted to SPEC on 02/24/05, under review. For the latest benchmark results, visit spec.org.
Feb. 2005 Solaris 10, Sun Fire E6900 and BEA delivered world record performance on SPECjApperver2002 dual node.
Two Sun Fire E6900 servers, each equipped with 24 UltraSPARC IV 1.2 GHz processors, delivered a result of 4220.39 TOPS@DualNode and $834.98 US$/TOPS@DualNode for the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark in the DualNode category. This result delivered more than twice the performance of the previous best result, from an HP Itanium-based system. SPECjAppServer2002 focuses on the application tier performance. The benchmark is specifically designed to test J2EE in a standard platform for development of portable, scalable, multi-tier enterprise applications. Two HP Rx4640 servers, each equipped with 4 Itanium 2 1.6 GHz processors, delivered a result of 1710.23 TOPS@DualNode and $115.73 US$/TOPS@DualNode for the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark in the DualNode category. SPEC and SPECjAppServer are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 02/18/05. For the latest results see spec.org.
Feb. 2005 Solaris 10 on 2-way Sun Fire V20z Server achieved a world record on SPEC OMPM2001
The Sun Fire V20z server, configured with two AMD Opteron Model 250 processors and running Solaris 10 OS, achieved a new World Record SPEC OMPM2001 result of 6,033 for all systems executing two parallel threads, as of February 1, 2005. SPEC OMPM2001, is a key benchmark that is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications. It represents a collection of C and FORTRAN applications that employ the OpenMP programming model and used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. These applications were compiled using the latest Sun Studio 10 development environment, which contributed to as much as a 20 percent boost in performance, when compared with Sun's 2-thread Linux-based result of 5,000.
SPEC and SPEComp are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For the latest SPEC OMP benchmark results, visit spec.org.
Feb. 2005 Solaris 10 on Sun Fire E6900 1.2 GHz delivered the Oracle Apps Batch (HVOP) benchmark submission.
The Sun Fire E6900 in combination with the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite 11i9, Oracle Database 10g running Solaris 10 OS with Sun StorEdge 6100 series storage arrays achieved a record throughput of 2.57 Million order lines per hour using the Oracle Applications Standard Batch benchmark which includes the High Volume Order Import (HVOP) program. Results demonstrate the ability on Sun Fire servers to meet the high order volumes originating from the electronic channels, such as consumer and business web sites, B2B exchanges, and EDI/XML. Sun demonstrates high scalability of the Sun Fire servers and Solaris 10 for Oracle 10g workloads.
Jan. 2005 Solaris 10 on x64 delivered world record 1-way, 2-way, and 4-way 64-bit results on SPECjbb2000 on Sun Fire V20z, V40Z servers (3 world records)
SPECjbb2000 (Java Business Benchmark) measure 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 metric is given in number of SPECjbb operations per second.
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results reflect data published on www.spec.org as of 02/01/05. The Sun Fire V20z server (1xAMD Opteron Model 250, Solaris10): 39,950 JBBops/s. The Sun Fire V20z server (2xAMD Opteron Model 250, Solaris10): 61,314 JBBops/s. The Sun Fire V40z server (4xAMD Opteron Model 250, Solaris10): 107,465 JBBops/s. For the latest benchmark results, visit spec.org.
Jan. 2005 Solaris10 on Sun Fire E25K server delivers world record performance on TPC-H @ 3000GB
The Sun Fire 25K system delivered 59,435.7 QphH@3000GB at a price performance of $114/QphH@3000GB, and with a scheduled availability of 07/27/05. TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the TPC's Web site. 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, and 3000GB) are not allowed by the TPC.
Dec. 2004 Sun Fire E4900 with Solaris 10, Oracle 10g, and StorEdge 6120 delivered the first Oracle Apps Batch (HVOP) benchmark submission.
The Sun Fire E4900 in combination with the Oracle(R) E-Business Suite 11i9, Oracle Database 10g running Solaris 10 OS with Sun StorEdge 6100 series storage arrays achieved a record throughput of 1.27 Million order lines per hour using the Oracle Applications Standard Batch benchmark which includes the High Volume Order Import (HVOP) program. First vendor to release results shows our continued commitment and leadership with Oracle applications. Results demonstrate the ability on Sun Fire servers to meet the high order volumes originating from the electronic channels, such as consumer and business web sites, B2B exchanges, and EDI/XML.
Nov. 2004 Solaris 10 on Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z Systems Set World Record Aggregate Bandwidth Peak in the Fifth Annual Bandwidth Challenge (2 records)
New World Record Increases Bandwidth More Than 330 Percent Over Last Year
Running Solaris 10 on the Sun Fire V20z server, a team led by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), CalTech and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratories (FNAL) set a new world record aggregate bandwidth peak of 101.13GBps at Supercomputing 2004, far surpassing last year's record of 23.21GBps and beating the nearest contender by more than 300 percent. The SCInet Bandwidth Challenge encourages participants to push the envelope in terms of network throughput in high performance computing (for more information visit www.sc-conference.org/sc2004/bandwidth.html.)
Using Sun Fire V20z servers based on the AMD Opteron processor running the Solaris 10 Operating System and Linux, SLAC was able to demonstrate completely filling a 10GBps transcontinental network path for a sustained time with standard 1500Byte packets, and the team achieved over 15GBps (9.43GBps in one direction and 5.65GBps in the reverse direction simultaneously) on a single 10GBps wavelength path. In addition, the team successfully showed smooth communications at multi-GBps rates between multiple operating systems and different vendor Network Interface Cards. The Bandwidth Challenge results prove the efficiency and robustness that an operating system can deliver, as well as the power and flexibility of two and four-way servers from Sun built with the AMD Opteron processor and 10 gig ethernet cards from NETERION (formerly S2IO) and Chelsio.
The performance achievements in the Bandwidth Challenge show not only an increase in overall throughput, but one Sun Fire V40z server achieved I/O ethernet performance of nearly 12GBps when configured with Solaris 10 OS and two NETERION (formerly S2IO) network cards. These accomplishments help make it faster and easier for SLAC to transfer large amounts of data for research and collaboration.
Oct. 2004 Solaris 10 on Opteron-based Sun Java Workstations performs 34%-61% better than comparable Intel-based Dell systems on Red Hat Linux 3.0 on BLAST ( 2 records)
The Sun Java Workstation W2100z with two AMD Opteron 250 processors running Solaris 10 operating system, achieved up to 34 percent better performance than Dell Precision 650 workstation with two 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon processor running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. The BLAST v2.2.9 benchmark, which models a BioInformatics Application performing pattern matching for nucleotides and amino acids, was provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
The Sun Java Workstation W1100z with AMD Opteron 150 processor running Solaris 10 operating system, achieved up to 61 percent better performance than Dell Precision 650 workstation with one 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon processor running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0. The BLAST v2.2.9 benchmark, which models a BioInformatics Application performing pattern matching for nucleotides and amino acids, was provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information.
1 The Sun Fire V40z server (4xAMD Opteron Model 852, Solaris 10, Sun Studio 10 compiler): SPECompM2001 - 12,434 (4 cores, 4 chips, 4 threads). The Sun Fire V40z server (4xAMD Opteron Model 850, SuSe Linux 9, PGI compiler): SPECompM2001 - 8,694 (4 cores, 4 chips, 4 threads).
2 The Sun Fire V40z server (2xAMD Opteron Model 852, Solaris 10, Sun Studio 10 compiler): SPECompM2001 - 7,129 (2 cores, 2 chips, 2 threads).
3 The IBM eServer OpenPower 710 (1.65 GHz POWER5, Linux): SPECompM2001 – 5382 (2 cores, 1 chip, 4 threads).
4 The HP AlphaServer GS1280 7/1300 (4xAlpha 21364 , Tru64 UNIX ): SPECompM2001 - 8225 (4 cores, 4 chips, 4 threads).
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