SPARC Enterprise Sets Leading Computing Performance Benchmarks
11th May 2007
SPARC Enterprise has proved it is the platform best suited to major commercial application performance. In the SAP Application
Sales and Distribution (SD) 2-tier benchmark, SPARC Enterprise recorded 7,300 benchmark users – a new record for the mark,
for systems with 32cores.*
*Certified on April 17th, 2007 – with SAP ERP 2005, Oracle Database 10g on a system comprised of Solaris 10 OS & SPARC Enterprise
M8000.
This represents a major performance improvement over previous PRIMEPOWER records. Comparison of SAP SD 2-tier benchmark results for SPARC Enterprise M8000 and PRIMEPOWER1500 show a performance improvement of 39%.
SPARC Enterprise has also shown its strong competitiveness. Comparison of SAP SD 2-tier two benchmark results for SPARC Enterprise M8000 and HP Integrity Superdome show around a 30% benchmark superiority over the HP Integrity system.
SPARC Enterprise is also winning R&D benchmark records.
- In the SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark, for large scale concurrent applications:
SPARC Enterprise M9000 took the top spot with 1,148,234. - In the Linpack benchmark, for floating point calculations:
SPARC Enterprise recorded the No. 1 record with 1032.0 GFLOP/s. - In the STREAM benchmark, for sustained memory bandwidth:
SPARC Enterprise M9000 recorded an outstanding 227059.0 M Bytes/sec (TRIAD) (*)
* M Bytes/sec : 106 Bytes/sec
Benchmark result comparisons
SAP SD two-tier
| Server models (Number of CPUs, Number of CPU cores) |
Number of benchmark users |
Average dialog response time | Dialog steps per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
|
SPARC Enterprise M8000 (16CPU, 32cores) |
7,300 users | 1.98 sec | 2,194,000 steps/hour |
| HP Integrity Superdome (16CPU, 32cores) | 5,600 users | 1.91 sec | 1,692,000 steps/hour |
| PRIMEPOWER1500 (32CPU, 32cores) | 5,200 users | 1.99 sec | 1,561,000 steps/hour |
SPEC OMP2001
| Server models (Number of CPU cores) | SPECompLpeak2001 | SPECompLbase2001 |
|---|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128cores) | 1,230,446 | 1,148,234 |
| IBM System p5 595 (64cores) | 1,056,459 | 1,005,583 |
Linpack
| Server models (Number of cores) | Benchmark results |
|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128cores) | 1032.0 GFLOP/s |
| IBM System p5 595 (64cores) | 418.0 GFLOP/s |
| HP Integrity Superdome (128cores) | 745.5 GFLOP/s |
STREAM
| Server models (Number of cores) |
COPY (M Bytes/sec) |
SCALE (M Bytes/sec) |
ADD (M Bytes/sec) |
TRAID (M Bytes/sec) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128cores) |
224,401.0 | 223,113.0 | 224,271.0 | 227,059.0 |
| IBM System p5 595 (64cores) |
186,137.0 | 179,639.0 | 200,410.0 | 206,243.0 |
| HP Integrity Superdome_dc (128cores) |
154,504.0 | 152,999.0 | 169,468.0 | 170,833.0 |
* M Bytes/sec : 106 Bytes/sec
- 2-tier SAP SD benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M8000 benchmark environment: 16CPU, 32cores, 64threads, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz, L2 cache 6MB, main memory 256GB, Solaris 10 OS, Oracle 10g database, SAP ERP 2005 [Certification Number : 2007026]
PRIMEPOWER1500 benchmark environment : 32CPU, 32cores, 32threads, SPARC64 V 1.89GHz, L2 cache 3MB, main memory 256GB, Solaris 9 OS, Oracle 9i database, SAP R/3 version 4.70 [Certification Number : 2004055]
HP Integrity Superdome benchmark environment :16CPU, 32cores, 64threads, Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6GHz, L2 cache 2MB(I)+512KB(D), main memory 256GB, Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition, SQL Server 2005, SAP ERP 2005 [Certification Number : 2006090] - SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 benchmark environment : 64CPU, 128cores, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz, Solaris 10 OS
IBM p5 595 benchmark environment : 32CPU, 64cores, POWER5+ 2.3GHz, AIX 5L V5.3 - Linpack benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 benchmark environment : 64CPU, 128cores, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz
IBM p5 595 benchmark environment : 32CPU, 64cores, POWER5+ 1.9GHz
HP Integrity Superdome benchmark environment : 64CPU, 128cores, Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6GHz - STREAM benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 benchmark environment : 64CPU, 128cores, SPARC64 VI 2.4GHz
IBM p5 595 benchmark environment : 32CPU, 64cores, POWER5+ 2.3GHz
HP Integrity Superdome benchmark environment : 64CPU, 128cores, Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 1.6GHz
Benchmark references
SAP SD 2-tier benchmark
SAP SD (Sales and Distribution) 2-tier benchmark tests hardware and software performance of SAP applications and components,
measuring the number of concurrent access users on condition that average response times keep within 2.0 sec. SD is a SAP
R/3 component used for online transactions.
For details, refer to SAP Standard Application Benchmarks
SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark
SPEC OMP benchmark tests hardware and software performance of OpenMP concurrent applications, suited for concurrent processing
performance of SMP systems. SPEC OMPL2001 is used for large scale concurrent applications and SPEC OMPM2001 for small or medium
concurrent applications.
For details, refer to SPEC
Linpack benchmark
Linpack benchmark tests hardware and software performance of applications for solving simultaneous linear equations, and is
suited for measuring floating point calculations. Linpack is known as a reliable benchmark; The TOP500 List, supercomputer
ranking is based on （High-Performance Linpack：HPL） using linpack benchmark.
For the linpack benchmark report, refer to Performance of Various Computers Using Standard Linear Equations Software
STREAM benchmark
STREAM is widely used benchmark for measuring memory bandwidth continuing over a certain time.
For details, refer to STREAM Benchmark Performance Results
