Sun Fire X4800 M2 Posts World Record x86 SPECjEnterprise2010 Result
- by Brian
Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 M2 using the Intel Xeon E7-8870 processor
and Sun Fire X4470 M2 using the Intel Xeon E7-4870 processor,
produced a world record single application server
SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark result of 27,150.05
SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
The Sun Fire X4800 M2 server ran
the application tier and the Sun Fire X4470 M2 server
was used for the database tier.
The Sun Fire X4800 M2 server demonstrated 63% better performance
compared to IBM P780 server result of 16,646.34
SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
The Sun Fire X4800 M2 server demonstrated 4% better performance than
the Cisco UCS B440 M2 result, both results used the same number of
processors.
This result used
Oracle WebLogic Server 12c,
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server 1.7.0_02,
and Oracle Database 11g.
This result was produced using Oracle Linux.
Performance Landscape
Complete benchmark results are at the SPEC website,
SPECjEnterprise2010 Results.
The table below compares against the best results from IBM and Cisco.
SPECjEnterprise2010 Performance Chart
as of 3/12/2012
Submitter
EjOPS*
Application Server
Database Server
Oracle
27,150.05
1x Sun Fire X4800 M2
8x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-8870
Oracle WebLogic 12c
1x Sun Fire X4470 M2
4x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870
Oracle Database 11g (11.2.0.2)
Cisco
26,118.67
2x UCS B440 M2 Blade Server
4x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870
Oracle WebLogic 11g (10.3.5)
1x UCS C460 M2 Blade Server
4x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870
Oracle Database 11g (11.2.0.2)
IBM
16,646.34
1x IBM Power 780
8x 3.86 GHz POWER 7
WebSphere Application Server V7
1x IBM Power 750 Express
4x 3.55 GHz POWER 7
IBM DB2 9.7 Workgroup Server Edition FP3a
* SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS, bigger is better.
Configuration Summary
Application Server:
1 x Sun Fire X4800 M2
8 x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processor E7-8870
256 GB memory
4 x 10 GbE NIC
2 x FC HBA
Oracle Linux 5 Update 6
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Release 1 (10.3.5)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM on Linux, version 1.7.0_02
(Java SE 7 Update 2)
Database Server:
1 x Sun Fire X4470 M2
4 x 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon E7-4870
512 GB memory
4 x 10 GbE NIC
2 x FC HBA
2 x Sun StorageTek 2540 M2
4 x Sun Fire X4270 M2
4 x Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array
Oracle Linux 5 Update 6
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2
Benchmark Description
SPECjEnterprise2010 is the third generation of the SPEC organization's
J2EE end-to-end industry standard benchmark application. The
SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark has been designed and developed to
cover the Java EE 5 specification's
significantly expanded and simplified
programming model, highlighting the major features used by developers
in the industry today. This provides a real world workload driving the
Application Server's implementation of the Java EE specification to its
maximum potential and allowing maximum stressing of the underlying
hardware and software systems.
The workload consists of an end to end web based order processing
domain, an RMI and Web Services driven manufacturing domain and a
supply chain model utilizing document based Web Services. The
application is a collection of Java classes, Java Servlets, Java Server
Pages, Enterprise Java Beans, Java Persistence Entities (pojo's) and
Message Driven Beans.
The SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark heavily exercises all parts of the
underlying infrastructure that make up the application environment,
including hardware, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers, and
the system network.
The primary metric of the SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark is jEnterprise
Operations Per Second ("SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS"). This metric
is calculated by adding the
metrics of the Dealership Management Application in the Dealer Domain
and the Manufacturing Application in the Manufacturing Domain. There
is no price/performance metric in this benchmark.
Key Points and Best Practices
Sixteen Oracle WebLogic server instances were started using
numactl, binding 2 instances per chip.
Eight Oracle database listener processes were started,
binding 2 instances per chip using taskset.
Additional tuning information is in the report at
http://spec.org.
See Also
Oracle Press Release
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SPECjEnterprise2010 Results Page
Sun Fire X4800 M2 Server oracle.com OTN
Sun Fire X4270 M2 Server oracle.com OTN
Sun Storage 2540-M2 Array
oracle.com
OTN
Oracle Linux
oracle.com
OTN
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition
oracle.com
OTN
WebLogic Suite
oracle.com
OTN
Disclosure Statement
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are
registered trademarks of the
Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation.
Sun Fire X4800 M2, 27,150.05 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS;
IBM Power 780, 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS;
Cisco UCS B440 M2, 26,118.67 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
Results from www.spec.org as of 3/27/2012.
