The 4-way Sun Fire V490 server with 2.1 GHz US-IV+ processors achieved 1340 users on the two-tier
SAP ECC 6.0 Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) benchmark. This beats the 4-way IBM p5 505Q server equipped with
1.64 GHz POWER5+ processors by 22% and 4-way IBM p5 550 server equipped with 1.9 GHz POWER5+ processors by 34%. [3]
Sun breaks the two-node world record with a Sun Fire V490 equipped with 4 UltraSPARC IV+ processors running Oracle 10g
Database Enterprise Edition and a Sun Fire T2000 server running BEA Weblogic 9.0 Advantage Edition. This configuration is an excellent
end to end data center solution based on solaris sparc binary compatibility. [2]
A cluster of 4 x Sun Fire V490 servers has set a new world record on the SPECweb99_SSL benchmark (as of February 15, 2005),
breaking the threshold of 10,000 simultaneous user connections. Each Sun Fire V490 is powered by 4 UltraSPARC IV 1050 MHz processors. The Sun
result beats a 16-Processor Itanium system from HP by 18%. The Sun result was achieved with a real-world web server - the Sun Java System Web
Server 6.1.
SPECweb99_SSL (1) is an industry-standard measure of secure web and application serving performance, relevant to all organizations looking to
create secure network computing infrastructures such as secure online banking and ecommerce, provision of public health services, or supply chain
management. [1]
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The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops suites of benchmarks and also reviews and publishes submitted results from their member organizations and other benchmark licensees.
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[1] SPEC and the benchmark name SPECweb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. HP's 16-way rx8620 Itanium 1.5GHz server produced a SPECweb99_SSL score of 9060 simultaneous user connections. Comparisons are based upon published results as of 2/15/05.
[2] SPECjAppServer2004 Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 615.64 JOPS@Standard. SPECjAppServer2004 HP rx4640 (4 cores, 4 chips) 471.28 JOPS@Standard. SPEC, SPECjAppServer reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org.
[3] Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) standard SAP ERP 2004/2005 application benchmark: Sun Fire V490, 4 processors / 8 cores / 8 threads, UltraSPARC IV+, 2100 MHz, 128 KB(D) + 128 KB(I) L1 cache, 2 MB L2 cache on-chip, 32 MB L3 cache off-chip, 32 GB main memory. Number of benchmark users & comp.: 1,340 SD (Sales & Distribution) Average dialog response time: 1.91 seconds Throughput: Fully Processed Order Line items/hour: 135,000 Dialog steps/hour: 405,000 SAPS: 6,750 Average DB request time (dia/upd): 0.013 sec / 0.016 sec CPU utilization of central server: 99% Operating System central server: Solaris 10 RDBMS: Oracle 10g SAP ECC Release: 6.0. The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at the following Web page: www.sap.com/benchmark.
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