The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server runs the Solaris 10 OS to to maximize utilization of your assets and optimized for 24x7
mission critical computing. Ideal for large shared memory applications and business process computing such as BIDW and OLTP. It
also gives you a long, highly scalable SPARC growth path.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server has achieved a new single-system performance world record on the TPC-H data warehousing benchmark at the 1 Terabyte scale factor, demonstrating the effectiveness of Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) running Oracle 11g database on the SPARC-based platform.
The TPC-H is a performance benchmark established by the Transaction Processing Performance 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. The benchmark measures high-load multiple query throughput as well as single query performance.
Sun's leading TPC-H benchmark utilized 2.4 GHz SPARC64 VI processor-based Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server with Sun StorageTek 2540 arrays, running Solaris 10 OS and Oracle Database 11g with Automatic Storage Management.
Using the same number of cores , the Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server outperformed the best competing single system result, posted by the HP Integrity Superdome, by 69% with 18% advantage on price/performance (1).
Demonstrating superior I/O throughput when coupled with Solaris OS and Oracle Database 11g database software, Sun's solution relied on twenty Sun StorageTek 2540 disk arrays to deliver data rates of 13 GB/sec with near linear scaling (2).
These achievements clearly demonstrate the performance leadership of large SMP SPARC-based systems in the most demanding Enterprise application environments.
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 beat the highest performing IBM p5 595 by over 20% and the HP Integrity Superdome by over
45% on the Stream COPY benchmark. (3)
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 with 2.4GHz SPARC64 VI processors set a World Record on the SPECompL2001 benchmark
with a score of 1230446. This beats the best IBM result on SPECompL2001 by 16% and the best Itanium 2 based result (from SGI)
on SPECompL2001 by 22%. (4)
The Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000, using Sun Studio 12, topped the 1 TFLOP barrier, delivering a score of
1.032 TFLOPS on the Linpack benchmark (Highly Parallel Computing). This out-performs the best published single system from
IBM p5 595 (1.9GHz POWER5) by over 2X and tops the high end single system Itanium 2 based box from HP (Superdome, by nearly 38%). (5)
(1) As of May 14, 2008: Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 server (32 processors, 64 cores, 128 threads) 118,573 QphH@1000GB, $23.38/QphH@1000GB available 06/18/07. HP Integrity Superdome (32 processors, 64 cores and 64 threads) 69,999 QphH@1000GB, $28.69/QphH@1000GB available 06/18/07. Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), www.tpc.org
(2) The IO throughput was captured during execution of the benchmark using iostat utility under Solaris OS.
(3) Stream is a publicly available benchmark and can be found at
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/stream. Results as of 4/13/07. Sun SPARC
Enterprise M9000 (128 threads, 128 cores, 64 chips, 2.4GHz) COPY
224401.0 MB/s. IBM p5 595 (64 threads, 64 cores, 32 chips, 2.3GHz) COPY
186137.0 MB/s. HP Integrity SuperDome (128 threads, 128 cores, 64 chips,
1.6GHz) COPY 154504.0 MB/s.]
(4) SPEC, SPEComp reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 04/17/07.
Sun results submitted to SPEC. Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (128 cores, 64 chips, 128 threads, 2.4GHz) 1230446 SPECompL2001. IBM p5-595 (128 threads,
64 cores, 32 chips) 1056459 SPECompL2001. SGI Altix 4700, Itanium 2 (256 threads, 256 cores, 128 chips) 1005076 SPECompL2001
(5) Linpack HPC, results from http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/index.html as of 04/17/07.
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000 (SPARC64 VI @2.4, 64 chips, 128 cores), 1.032 TFLOPS. IBM p5 595 (POWER5 1.9GHz, 32 chips, 64 cores) 418.0 GFLOPS. HP
Superdome (Itanium 2 1.6GHz/24MB, 64 chips, 128 cores) 745.5 GFLOPS.]
