SPARC Enterprise Gains Crown in Two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark
22th August 2008
In the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, SPARC Enterprise M9000 with SPARC64™ VII processors achieved a score of 39,100 SAP SD benchmark users using Oracle10g and Solaris10. This benchmark result was almost 1.1 times the performance compared with IBM Power 595, and 1.3 times compared with HP Integrity Superdome. This benchmark proves SPARC Enterprise has the highest performance in the business application arena.
* For details, refer to chapter “Server configuration of benchmark test”. Performance figures shown here are as of 2008/08/22.
Adding to its supreme business application performance, SPARC Enterprise M9000 has proved its excellent computing performance.
In the integer calculating throughput benchmark using SPECint_rate2006, M9000 showed its superior performance over IBM Power
595. In the large scale parallel processing benchmark for scientific calculation, using SPEC OMPL2001, M9000 achieved 1,456,653.
Furthermore, in the floating point calculation benchmark, using Linpack, M9000 achieved 2023.0 GFLOPS.
SPARC Enterprise certainly offers the optimum platform for business applications.
Benchmark Performance *
SAP SD two-tier
| Central server | Number of benchmark users |
Average dialog response time | Dialog steps per hour |
|---|---|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64VII, 2.52GHz, 64CPUs/256cores/512threads) |
39,100 | 1.94 sec. | 11,794,000 |
| IBM Power 595 (POWER6, 5.0GHz, 32CPUs/64cores/128threads) |
35,400 | 1.94 sec. | 10,677,000 |
| HP Integrity SD64B (Dual core Itanium 2 9050, 1.6GHz, 64CPUs/128cores/256threads) |
30,000 | 1.80 sec. | 9,512,000 |
SPECint_rate2006
| Server configuration | Peak | Base |
|---|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64 VII, 2.52GHz, 64CPUs) | 2,290 | 2,090 |
| IBM Power 595 (POWER6, 5.0GHz, 32CPUs) | 2,080 | 1,820 |
| HP Integrity Superdome (Dual core Itanium 2 9050, 1.6GHz, 64CPUs) | 1,650 | 1,530 |
SPEC OMP2001
| Server configuration | SPECompLpeak2001 | SPECompLbase2001 |
|---|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64VII, 2.52GHz, 64CPUs) | 1,456,653 | 1,250,890 |
| IBM System p5 595 (POWER5+, 2.3GHz, 32CPUs) | 1,056,459 | 1,005,583 |
Linpack
| Server configuration | Results |
|---|---|
| SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64VII, 2.52GHz, 64CPUs) | 2,023.0GFLOPS |
| IBM Power 595 (POWER6, 5.0GHz, 32CPUs) | 1,028.0GFLOPS |
| HP Integrity Superdome (Dual core Itanium 2, 1.6GHz, 64CPUs) | 745.5GFLOPS |
* For details, refer to Server configuration of benchmark test.
- Two tier SAP SD benchmark test result
SPARC Enterprise M9000 : 39,100 SAP SD Benchmark users, average dialog response time: 1.94 sec, fully processed line items per hour : 3,931,330, 64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads, SPARC64VII,2.52GHz） L1 cache 64 KB(D) + 64 KB(I) per core, L2 cache 6MB per processor, 1024GB memory, Solaris10, Oracle 10g, SAP ERP6.0（2005） [Certification No. 2008042]
IBM Power 595 : 35,400 SAP SD Benchmark users, average dialog response time: 1.94 sec, fully processed line items per hour : 3,559,000, 32 processors, 64 cores, 128 threads, POWER6 5.0GHz, L1 cache 128KB per core, L2 cache 4MB per core, L3 cache 32MB per processor, 512GB memory, AIX Version 6.1, DB2 9.5, SAP ERP 6.0 (2005) [Certification No. 2008019]
HP Integrity SD64B: 30,000 SAP SD Benchmark users, average dialog response time: 1.80 sec, fully processed line items per hour : 3,050,670, 64 processors, 128cores, 256 threads, Dual core Intel Itanium 2 9050 1.6 GHz, L1 cache 32 KB(I) + 32 KB(D), L2 cache 2 MB(I) + 512 KB(D), L3 cache 24MB, 512GB memory, HP-UX 11iv3, Oracle 10g, mySAP ERP 2005 [Certification No. :2006089] - SPECint_rate2006 benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 : 64CPUs, 256 cores, 512 threads, SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz, Solaris 10 OS
IBM Power 595 : 32CPUs, 64cores, 128 threads, POWER6 5.0GHz, AIX Version 6.1
HP Integrity Superdome : 64CPUs, 128cores, 128 threads, Dual core Intel Itanium 2 9050 1.6GHz, HP-UX 11i - SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 : 64CPUs, 256 cores, 512 threads, SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz, Solaris 10 OS
IBM System p5 595 : 32CPUs, 64cores, 128 threads, POWER5+ 2.3GHz, AIX 5L V5.3 - Linpack benchmark results
SPARC Enterprise M9000 : 64 CPUs, 256 cores, 512 threads, SPARC64 VII 2.52GHz
IBM Power 595 : 32 CPUs, 64 cores, 128 threads, POWER6 5.0GHz
HP Integrity Superdome : 64 CPUs, 128 cores, 128 threads, Dual core Intel Itanium 2, 1.6 GHz
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
SPECint_rate2006 benchmark
SPECint_rate2006 tests hardware performance, measuring the number of integer calculation tasks in a certain time.
For detail, refer to http://www.spec.org.
SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark
SPEC OMP tests parallel processing performance, measuring parallel application performance using OpenMP.
SPEC OMP benchmark have two different benchmark such as SPEC OMPL2001 and SPEC OMPM2001 according to workload. At larger workload,
SPEC OMPL2001 measures large and parallel processing performance. At smaller workload, SPEC OMPM2001 measures parallel processing
performance of small or medium size.
For these details, refer to http;//www.spec.org.
Linpack benchmark
Linpack can measure floating point calculation performance using applications solving linear equations. TOP 500 List are publishing ranking of supercomputing using super parallel benchmark originated from Linpack, referred to as High-Performance Linpack (HPL).
Remarks
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