The quintet of IBM benchmark victories for the 64-core System p5 follows:
Transaction Processing -- In the TPC-C benchmark, measuring the ability of a server to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data the System p5 595 running a single instance of the IBM DB2® 9 data server on the AIX 5L™ operating system and using IBM System Storage™ DS4800 processed 4,016,222 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $2.98/tpmC [1], versus the HP Integrity Superdome's performance of 1,231,433 tpmC at $4.82/tpmC [1]. The TPC-C benchmark is an industry standard for measuring the ability of a system to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data. The TPC-C benchmark is unique in the way it exercises all components of a system, including processors, memory, networking, storage, operating system and database software, demonstrating total system performance in a way that many of the other benchmarks touted by some competitors do not.
SAP -- In the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application benchmark, the IBM System p5 595 running a single instance of the IBM DB2 9 data server and using IBM System Storage DS8300 achieved 23,456 Sales and Distribution Benchmark users versus Fujitsu-Siemens's result of 21,000 Sales and Distribution Benchmark users. [2] This benchmark evaluates the performance of a single server running both the database and application for a Sales and Distribution environment using a standard application benchmark provided by SAP AG.
High Performance Computing -- The one-core p5 595 achieved a world record result of 3,642 in the SPECfp2000 benchmark [3], a key yardstick of supercomputing performance, measuring how fast a single processor, cache, and memory can run a collection of 14 floating-point compute-intensive programs.
Parallel computing -- The p5 595 achieved a result of 157,880 in the SPECompMpeak2001 [4], measuring a system's parallel processing capabilities for medium problem sizes using a suite of applications based on the OpenMP standards for shared-memory parallel processing. It is used to gauge effectiveness for high performance and technical computing.
Supersized parallel computing -- The p5 595 achieved a result of 1,056,459 in the SPECompLpeak2001 [5], which measures a system's parallel processing capabilities for large problem sizes using a suite of applications based on the OpenMP standards for shared-memory parallel processing.
IBM SPEC results were submitted to SPEC on 7/25/06.
All competitive benchmark results current as of 7/25/06.
Source of TPC-C results is http://www.tpc.org.
Source of SPEC results is http://www.spec.org.
Source of SAP results is http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/index.epx
[1] IBM TPC-C result of 4,016,222 tpmC, $2.98/tpmC on a 64-core (32 processor chips, 128 threads) 2.3 GHz POWER5+ System p5 595 (configuration planned to be available 12/20/06) running DB2 9.1 on AIX 5L V5.3 vs. HP TPC-C result of 1,231,433 tpmC, $4.82/tpmC on a 64-core (64 chips, 64 threads) 1.6 GHz Intel® Itanium® 2 Integrity Superdome (configuration available 6/05/06)
[2] IBM System p5 595 (2.3 GHz) two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result of 23,456 SD Benchmark users running DB2 Universal Database 9.1, AIX 5L V5.3, MySAP™ ERP 2004 Application. (1.98 second average response time, 2,350,330 Fully processed Order lines items/hours, 7,051,000 Dialog steps/hour, 117,520 SAPS, 0.019 sec / 0.016 sec Average DB request time (dia/upd), 99% CPU utilization of central server, SAP ECC Release 5.0, 64 cores, 128 threads, The SAP certification number was not available at press time and can be found at: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
The Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500, 128-core SMP, SPARC64 V, 2080MHz, two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark result of 21,000 SD Benchmark users running Oracle Database 9i on Solaris 9, R/3 Enterprise 4.7 Application, (1.91 second average response time, 2,116,330 Fully processed Order lines items/hours, 6,349,000 Dialog steps/hour, 105,820 SAPS, 0.026 sec / 0.021 sec Average DB request time (dia/upd), 98% CPU utilization of central server, SAP R/3 4.7 Release, SAP Certification #2005013). Result current as of July 25, 2006.
[3] IBM System p5 595 1-core (2.3 GHz, 1 thread) SPECfp2000 result of 3,642;
[4] IBM System p5 595 64-core (2.3 GHz, 128 threads) SPECompMpeak2001 result of 157,880;
[5] IBM System p5 595 64-core (2.3 GHz, 128 threads) SPECompLpeak2001 result of 1,056,459
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