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Why Oracle on IBM POWER7 is Better
Than Oracle Exadata
The Advantages of IBM POWER7 Systems
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2. IBM and Oracle Have a Long-Standing Relationship
Sustaining relationship of 120K + clients
Oracle 22 years, PeopleSoft 20 years, JD Edwards 31
Coopetition is years, Siebel 10 years
alive and well
More than 120K joint technology clients
And more than 20,000 joint application clients
Vibrant technology relationship
Sustained investment in skills and resources including
dedicated international competency centers
Market-leading services practice
IBM GBS is Oracle’s #1 SI partner (7,500 joint projects)
with 5,000 people dedicated to Oracle
Unrivaled client support process
Dedicated on-site resources and significant program
investments
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3. Top 10 Reasons IBM POWER7 Systems are Better for Oracle
IBM POWER7® Systems Oracle Exadata
Custom, client-focused configurations Rigid configuration with lack of
1. Configuration and for multiple needs – including OLTP and customization to client’s workload with a
price flexibility Data Warehouse – and multiple price high initial purchase price that is very
points expensive to scale
Enterprise-strength storage Missing key storage technology and
2. Storage technology
technologies such as RAID-6 options support
Industry-leading performance and No published benchmarks
3. Performance
benchmarks
Capability and flexibility to scale up and Only scale-out capability
4. Scalability Oracle…
scale out
Extremely reliable system and storage Uncertain reliability 1. Expensive
5. Reliability 2. Lock in
technology
Marries resource efficiency and No virtualization 3. Risk
6. Virtualization
virtualization
Choice of AIX®, IBM i, Red Hat or SUSE Only proprietary Oracle Linux
7. OS flexibility
Linux distributions, Oracle Solaris 11 in 2011
Supports all currently available Oracle Only supports Oracle Database Server
8. Software levels Database Server versions through 11gR2
11gR2
9. Roadmap History of success and a clear roadmap Uncertain roadmap and direction
10. Business risk Proven platform Risky platform
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4. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
OLTP and Data Warehouse Have Different Design Needs
IBM believes that designing and building systems optimized
for specific workloads is the best approach
OLTP Systems
– Run the business by processing the transactions that are critical to the organization
– Utilization is driven by the number of users, not complexity of SQL
– Smaller block I/O – 8K
– Higher write - updated online, many index lookups Would you
– Buffer, log and cache management are key to performance in clusters configure OLTP and
Data Warehouse
Data Warehouse Systems
systems identically?
– Analyze the transaction data to provide strategic and competitive differentiation
– Larger more complex queries with more table joins, complex SQL ORACLE DOES
– Lots of large block I/O – 16-32K with Exadata!
– 90-95% reads
– Tends to consume entire environments
Mixing OLTP and Data Warehouse databases within the same OS is not generally recommended
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5. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
Exadata — Rigid and Lacks Customization to Client’s Workload
You’re locked in to a fixed configuration that lacks the granularity to
size YOUR workload to YOUR needs — Fixed node sizes, fixed ratio
of cores-to-disks and fixed upgrade options
Processing and storage capacity are not sold independently — when you need to increase
processing, you likely don’t need more storage
– Typical Exadata system running OLTP can end up with 6x-28x more storage than required
– When you need high-performance, you are paying too much for 100 TB of usable low-
performance storage you may never use
Exadata storage nodes come with 5 TB of expensive flash cache and 100 TB of disk storage —
whether both are required or not
If you have a ¼ rack and you want to upgrade, you have to
move to a ½ rack
– Doubling the size of your environment — even if you
only need one more processor
– Have to pay Oracle license and maintenance fees —
even if you’re not using all that processing power
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6. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
Implement Lower-Cost Solutions Suited to Your Business Needs
— IBM POWER7 Systems —
IBM POWER7
Systems offer custom,
Flexibility for OLTP and Data Warehouse
client-focused Workload deployment
configurations for
YOUR specific
workload with choice
of processor speed,
storage type,
virtualization and the
ability to scale both up
and out!
Upgrade existing systems OR integrate new systems into your
environment based on your workload needs
Leverage virtualization in application servers and
development/test environment
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7. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
POWER7 Leads Exadata in All Platform Categories
Exadata X2-2 Exadata X2-8 Power Systems
IBM
Sockets/Node 2 8 1 to 32 POWER7
Cores/Node 12 64 4 to 256 Systems are
the wise
256 with 795 choice to run
Max Cores/Rack 96 128 320 with 730/750
Oracle
448 with PS701 blades
Database
Threads/Node 24 128 16 to 1024 software.
Make the
Memory/Node 96 GB 1TB Up to 8TB
smart
Oracle Linux, Oracle Linux, AIX, IBM i, decision!
OS Support
Solaris 11 Solaris 11 Red Hat and SUSE Linux
Oracle DB Support 11gR2 11gR2 10gR2, 11gR1, 11gR2
Virtualization None None IBM PowerVMTM built in
VMs/node None None Up to 1,000
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8. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
POWER7 Systems Flexibility Advantage with Oracle Database
Implement and deploy an appropriate mix of RAC and non-RAC Oracle database
instances as well as application instances
Size individual database LPARs to match Isolate critical databases in different LPARs
specific CPU, I/O and memory needs Isolate database by department or other
Scale from very small to very large LPARs Mix test and production on the same frame
and Oracle instances
Mix application and database on the same
Create independent security domains machine
Deploy varying versions of Oracle
AIX OS OS OS OS OS OS OS
WPARs
RAC RAC
DB
DB DB App DB DB DB
OS OS
DB
RAC RAC
App
PowerVM Hypervisor PowerVM Hypervisor
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9. #1 – Configuration & price flexibility
Exadata — High Initial Purchase Price and VERY Expensive to Scale
Exadata X2-8 Full Rack List Price
IBM POWER7
Hardware Cost $1,500,000
Systems allow
Exadata Storage Server Software $1,680,000 you to scale both
Oracle 11g Database $3,040,000 up and out so
you can add
Oracle RAC Option $1,472,000 incremental
Oracle Partitioning Option $736,000 processors,
memory and
Oracle Compression Option $736,000
storage
Oracle Diagnostics Pack $320,000 AND PAY FOR
Oracle Tuning Pack $320,000 ONLY WHAT
YOU NEED
Oracle Premier Support for Systems $180,000 WHEN YOU
1 year Disk Retention Services $30,000 NEED IT!
1 year Exadata Software Maintenance $369,900
1 year Oracle Software Maintenance $1,457,280
Estimated total cost $11,841,180
Migration and installation are extra and require a custom quote
Source: Exadata pricing guide © 2011 IBM Corporation
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10. #2 – Storage Technology
Exadata — Lacks Key Storage Technology and Options Support
Feature IBM Storage Exadata
Storage choices YES, provides many choices with flexible cost and NO, only option is very expensive/GB. Paying for very
and warranty warranty options — all support Oracle and Oracle RAC expensive Flash Cache that most applications don’t need
options Storage can be repurposed for other applications/needs Exadata storage is only supported with Exadata
Scalability Do not need a fixed ratio of CPU cores to disks Need a fixed ratio of CPU cores to disk
Can size your workload to what you need Same ratio for OLTP and Data Warehouse, and whether
using compressed data or not
Reliability POWER7 with RAID-6 has a far more reliable scheme for Exadata standard configuration uses less reliable
data redundancy than Oracle Exadata standard mirroring scheme (ASM)
configuration with mirroring
Capacity efficiency POWER7 Systems and the DS3500 have 1/3 higher With Exadata’s standard configuration, it operates at 50%
capacity efficiency than Oracle Exadata. IBM operates at capacity efficiency
67% capacity efficiency. With IBM, less capacity is
With Exadata’s optional triple mirroring, reliability is
devoted to the overhead necessary to keep the data safe
improved, but capacity efficiency drops from 50% to 33%
Compared to Exadata’s optional triple mirroring, IBM has
50% higher capacity efficiency
Drives intermix YES, helps protect investment NO, the Exadata Storage Server is a fixed configuration.
It only comes in two flavors and drives cannot be
individually purchased or configured
Other storage YES, RAID options, de-duplication and tape support NO
options
Automated data YES, IBM Storage Systems provide the ability to relocate NO
placement data (at the extent level) across drive tiers (HDD/SSD)
without disruption to applications. 5-10% SSD can provide
up to 300% transaction throughput increase
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11. #3 – Performance
Power Systems Demonstrate Sustained Performance Excellence
TPC-C 64-core
TPC-C 16-core
TPC-C 8-core
TPC-C 4-core
SAP SD 3-tier Overall
SAP SD 2-tier Overall (uni)
SAP SD 2-tier 64-core (uni)
SAP SD 2-tier 32-core (uni) ORACLE has no
SAP SD 2-tier 16-core
SAP SD 2-tier 4-core
SAP SD 2-tier 2-core
published
Siebel 7.7 Industry Applications
Oracle Apps. Std. Batch 11.5.9 performance
SPECint_rate2000 4-core
SPECfp_rate2000 4-core benchmarks
SPECint_rate2000 8-core
SPECfp_rate2000 8-core
SPECint_rate2000 16-core
with Exadata!
SPECfp_rate2000 16-core
SPECint_rate2000 32-core
SPECfp_rate2000 32-core
SPECint_rate2000 64-core
SPECfp_rate2000 64-core
SPECint_rate2006 64-core
SPECfp_rate2006 64-core
SPECint_rate2006 256-core
SPECfp_rate2006 256-core
Lotus NotesBench R6Mail Overall
Lotus NotesBench D7 R6iNotes
SPECjbb2005 16-core
SPECjbb2005 32-core
SPECjbb2005 64-core Best Competitive Result
SPECjbb2005 256-core
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 2-core IBM
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 4-core
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 16-core
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) Overall
SPEC OMPL2001 base (64-core)
LINPACK HPC 2-core
LINPACK HPC 4-core
LINPACK HPC 8-core
LINPACK HPC 16-core
LINPACK HPC 32-core
LINPACK HPC 64-core
Source:
http://www.spec.org 0 1 2 3
http://www.tpc.org Relative Performance
http://www.sap.com/benchmark/
http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/PDSreports.html
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12. #4 – Scalability
Scale Up or Scale Out Depending on Application Needs with POWER7
With Exadata, you
Drive a consolidation strategy and add in pieces you need, have to add
as you need them capacity in big
– Add additional CPUs for better performance increments and
– Add additional memory for cache-sensitive workloads only via scale-out
– Add SSD for reduced I/O latency nodes, which
increases
– Leverage existing disks for tiered storage
complexity and
Scale up and configure fewer, more powerful servers management
considerations.
– Fewer moving parts means less to manage
– Less complex RAC configurations
Deploy new applications and respond to rapidly changing Do you want to
business needs quickly and easily waste capacity
– Mix application and database on and pay for what
the same machine you don’t need
– Mix test and production on the with Exadata?
same frame
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13. #5 – Reliability
POWER7 is Reliable. Is Exadata?
RAS Feature POWER7 EXADATA X2-2 EXADATA X2-8
Live Partition Mobility Yes No No
Live Application Mobility Yes No No
OS-independent First Failure Data Capture Yes No No
with dedicated service processors
Memory Keys (including OS exploitation) Yes No No
Voltage Regulator Output Redundancy – N+2 Power 770/780 No No
Processor Instruction Retry Yes ? ?
Alternate Processor Recovery Yes No No
Dynamic Processor De-allocation Yes ? ?
Dynamic Processor Sparing Yes ? ?
Hypervisor Critical Data Memory Mirroring Yes ? ?
Dynamic DRAM Sparing Yes ? ?
I/O Extended Error Handling Yes ? ?
I/O Adapter Isolation (PCI-Bus and TCEs) Power ? ?
770/780/795
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14. #5 – Reliability
Power Systems with AIX Deliver 99.997% Up Time
Power Systems with AIX deliver excellent reliability,
availability and serviceability
Availability – The least amount of downtime Minutes of downtime per year
– 15 minutes per year
– 2.3 times better than the closest competitor 180
– More than 10 times better than Windows
120
Reliability – The fewest unscheduled outages
60
– Less than one outage per year
0
Serviceability – The fastest patch time AIX / Power HP-UX /
PA_RISC
HP-UX /
Integrity
x86 - Windows
– 11 minutes to apply a patch
Source: ITIC 2009 Global Server Hardware & Server OS Reliability Survey Results, July 7, 2009
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15. #6 – Virtualization
POWER7 with PowerVM for Virtualization Without Limits
Higher system utilization means fewer idle resources, lower
total power requirements and maximum value obtained from
per-CPU licenses!
Live Partition Mobility with virtual machines of any size up to the entire system that can
easily move between your POWER6 and POWER7 systems
Scales seamlessly from 1/10 of a core to 256 cores and can use all resources of the
host server
Dynamic changes to any IT resource without reboot
Integrated storage virtualization for simplified provisioning, management of virtual
servers and advanced virtual networking
Secure by design with zero common vulnerabilities exposures (CVEs) reported against
PowerVM by US CERT or by MITRE Corporation
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16. #6 – Virtualization
POWER7 Leads Exadata in Virtualization with PowerVM
Feature PowerVM EXADATA (X2-8)
Hypervisor is core firmware Yes No
Architecture
Hypervisor is thin layer - not OS based Yes No
Oracle’s lack of
Max physical server CPUs / memory 256, 16TB 128, 2TB
Scaling, Maximum # of VMs per server 1000 0
systems
Performance VM scalability (CPUs, memory) 256, 16TB None virtualization
Hypervisor efficiency High None leads to over
provisioning of
Dynamic VM resources (―DLPAR‖) Yes None the physical
Full, dynamic processor sharing Yes None environment.
Dynamic Full, dynamic memory sharing Yes None
Reconfiguration Ability to dedicate all resources Yes None
and Ability to specify guaranteed capacity Yes None
Optimization Capped & uncapped partitions/groups Yes None Do you want to
Automatic VM N-way minimization Yes None
Memory compression Yes None
waste resources
and pay for what
Hot-node add /cold-node repair / PFA Yes Limited you don’t need
RAS Concurrent firmware maintenance Yes No
with Exadata?
(Virtualization Selective memory mirroring Yes No
Specific) VM live mobility Yes No
Redundant virtual I/O server Yes No
Market Adoption Maturity and usage High New
Fault/Security I/O error isolation/recovery
Yes No
Isolation
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17. #7 & 8 – OS Flexibility & Software
POWER7 Provides OS Choice and Software Simplicity
Provides choice of proven operating systems
– AIX IBM POWER7
– IBM i Systems offer a
choice of proven
– Red Hat and SUSE Linux
operating
systems and
Supports available Oracle versions up through 11gR2 allow you to
– No forced migrations leverage your
existing Oracle
Allows mixing of applications and database on the Database Server
same machine investment!
– Includes test and production environments
Supports thousands of applications, third-party software
tools and a wide range of hardware components
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17 Note: Oracle 11gR2 does not support Red Hat and SUSE Linux on Power
18. #7 & 8 – OS Flexibility & Software
Exadata — Lacks OS Flexibility and Adds Complexity
Offers Oracle Enterprise Linux Distributions only — not Red Hat, not Solaris
– Is this new to your stack and needs validation/testing?
Supports only Oracle Database 11gR2 Do you want to
– Database must be migrated to 11gR2 level work around all
– Most third-party applications not yet certified
– Storage must use ASM, you have no choice Exadata’s
limitations?
Does not allow additional hardware/software on Oracle Database
Server or Exadata Storage Server nodes
No flexibility – backups must use RMAN, Disaster Recovery use Data Guard
Need 22 installations of the Oracle Linux OS
– Is Oracle Linux certified in your environment?
Need 8 copies of Oracle 11gR2 Database Server software
– Does your application stack support Oracle 11gR2?
Need 14 copies of Oracle 11gR2 Exadata Storage software
– Can you tune this piece? Do you have to? How do you?
– Newly available software with unproven code quality
Need Oracle RAC and additional software to simplify systems management
– Do you run Oracle RAC in your environment?
– Enterprise Manager Diagnostics Pack
– Enterprise Manager Change Management Pack
Oracle Exadata – Enterprise Manager Tuning Pack / Provisioning Pack
full rack – Enterprise Manager Configuration Management Pack
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19. #9 – Roadmap
IBM Power Technology — Dependable Execution For a Decade
Exadata V1 was
retired after one
year with no
upgrade path to
Exadata V2. V2
was introduced on
a completely POWER8
different hardware POWER7
platform! Oops! 45 nm
POWER6 Proven
65 nm technology
Dual Core
POWER5 On-Chip eDRAM
and clear
130 nm Power-Optimized Cores roadmap
What will the POWER4 Dual Core Memory Subsystem ++
SMT++
High Frequencies
next version of 180 nm Virtualization + Reliability +
VSM & VSX
Dual Core Memory Subsystem +
Exadata be like? Enhanced Scaling Altivec Protection Keys+
SMT Instruction Retry
Distributed Switch + Dynamic Energy Mgmt
Dual Core SMT +
Chip Multi Processing Core Parallelism + Protection Keys
Distributed Switch FP Performance +
Shared L2 Memory Bandwidth +
Dynamic LPARs (32) Virtualization
2001 2004 2007 2010 Future
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20. #10 – Business Risk
And Finally, Is Moving to Exadata Worth the Business Risk?
Practical Analysis: Do Oracle Exadata Do you want
Gains Warrant the Risk? to take what
By Art Wittmann, Director, Is Exadata More Trouble Than It’s Worth?
could be a
InformationWeek Analytics “career-ending
By Matthew McKenzie, Editor in Chief, risk”?
On the face of it, that Oracle makes a
Enterprise Efficiency
big deal out of performance is a telling
mistake. Just like we no longer buy Who cares? According to a recent InformationWeek
cars based on horsepower alone, IT Analytics survey, the real issue isn't whether Exadata
purchases have long since ceased to performs better. It's whether CIOs are willing to risk tying
be about performance. Factors like their companies — and their careers — to what they see
value and risk are at least as important,
as a deeply dysfunctional vendor relationship.
and for existing Sun customers, the
risks are just getting bigger. Here's the bottom line: Earlier this year, just 7 percent of IT
pros said they had "no interest" in buying major
Oracle Stacks the Deck with Integrated applications in appliance form from a Sun/Oracle combo.
Hardware and Software: Convenience, Now, that number has more than doubled to 17 percent.
Lock-in and Higher Prices What's driving that change? According to InformationWeek
By Dave Vallente, Silicon Angle Analytics director Art Wittman, the IT pros surveyed say it's
a toxic combination of an "arrogant" Oracle sales team
If you don’t endeavor to manage
Oracle negotiations in a deliberate and and an "inept" Sun hardware service team.
thoughtful manner, like you would a Even if Exadata delivers the goods, Wittman writes, "The
vital corporate project – the outcome benefit isn't sufficient to make up for what could be a
will be simple. You will be eaten alive,
your costs will go up, you’ll be hit with career-ending risk."
audit bills down the road and you’ll be
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21. It Makes Sense to Deploy your Applications on POWER7 Systems
IBM POWER7
Oracle…
Custom, client-focused configurations 1. Expensive
1. Configuration and price for multiple needs – including data
flexibility warehouse and OLTP – and multiple
2. Lock in
price points 3. Risk
Enterprise-strength storage
2. Storage technology
technologies including RAID-6
Industry-leading performance and
3. Performance
benchmarks IBM POWER7
Capability and flexibility to scale both Systems are the
4. Scalability SMART choice for
up and out
Extremely reliable system and
your Oracle
5. Reliability
storage technology Database Server
environment!
Marries resource efficiency and
6. Virtualization
virtualization
Choice of AIX, IBM i, Red Hat or
7. OS flexibility
SUSE Linux
Supports available Oracle versions
8. Software levels
through 11gR2
History of success and a clear
9. Roadmap
roadmap
10. Business risk Proven platform
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22. Trademarks and Notices
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February 2011
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23. Backup data for slide 11
IBM Second Place POWER
Benchmarks # Cores GHz System POWER Result Result Faster By Second Place System (non-IBM)
TPC-C 64-core
TPC-C 16-core
TPC-C 8-core
64
16
8
5
4.7
4.14
595
570
780
6,085,166
1,616,162
1,200,011
2,382,032
579,814
661,475
155%
178.7%
81.4
Fujitsu Primequest
HP DL585
HP DL370
POWER vs.
TPC-C 4-core
SAP SD 3-tier Overall
SAP SD 2-tier Overall (Unicode)
4
-
-
4.7
1.90
4
570
p5-595
795
404,462
168,300
70,032
230,569
100,000
32,000
75.4%
68.3%
118.8%
HP rx6600
HP Superdome 64-core
Sun/Fujitsu M9000
Best
SAP SD 2-tier 64-core (Unicode) 64 3.86 780 37,000 18,635 98.5% HP DL980
SAP SD 2-tier 32-core (Unicode)
SAP SD 2-tier 16-core
32
16
3.55
4.7
750
570
15,600
8,000
10490
4170
48.7%
91.8%
HP DL580
Sun T5240
Competitive
SAP SD 2-tier 4-core 4 4.7 570 2,035 1,218 67.1% HP BL480c
SAP SD 2-tier 2-core
Oracle Apps Online 11.5.9
Oracle Apps. Std. Batch 11.5.9
2
8
8
2.10
1.90
1.90
p5-505
p5-570
p5-570
680
15,004
2,744,000
597
DNP
2,664,000
13.9%
3.0%
HP ProLiant ML370 3.6 GHz
Fujitsu PrimePower 850 (16-core)
Result Comparing the
SPECint_rate2000 4-core 4 2.10 p5-550 90.0 123 -26.8% Dell PowerEdge best available
SPECfp_rate2000 4-core 4 2.10 p5-550 149 121 23.1% Sun Ultra 40 results vs. POWER
SPECint_rate2000 8-core 8 2.20 p5-575 200 200 0% Dell PowerEdge/Fujitsu Primergy
SPECfp_rate2000 8-core 8 2.20 p5-575 382 214 78.5% Sun X4600
SPECint_rate2000 16-core 16 1.90 p5-575 314 283 11% Fujitsu PrimePower
64-core (32/64/128) IBM Power 595 TPC-C result of 6,085,166 tpmC, $2.81/tpmC, avail. 12/10/08
SPECfp_rate2000 16-core 16 1.90 p5-575 571 373 53.1% Bull NovaScale
64-core (32/64/128) Fujitsu Primequest TPC-C result of 2,382,032 tpmC, $3.76/tpmC, avail. 12/04/08
SPECint_rate2000 32-core 32 1.65 p5-590 529 537 -1.5% Fujitsu PrimePower 1500 16-core (8/16/32) IBM Power 570 TPC-C result of 1,616,162 tpmC, $3.54/tpmC, avail. 11/21/07
16-core (4/16/16) HP DL585 TPC-C result of 579,814 tpmC, $.96/tpmC, avail. 11/17/08
SPECfp_rate2000 32-core 32 1.65 p5-590 870 766 13.6% Fujitsu Primequest 480 8-core (2/8/32) IBM Power 780 TPC-C result of 1,200,011 tpmC, $.69/tpmC, avail. 10/13/10
8-core (2/8/16) HP DL370 TPC-C result of 661,475 tpmC, $1.16/tpmC, avail. 2/01/10
SPECint_rate2000 64-core 64 2.30 p5-595 1,513 1108 36.6% HP Superdome (1.6 GHz)
4-core (2/4/8) IBM Power 570 TPC-C result of 404,462 tpmC, $3.50/tpmC, avail. 11/26/07
SPECfp_rate2000 64-core 64 1.90 p5-595 2,406 1,257 91.4% SGI Altix 3000 4-core (2/4/8) HP rx6600 TPC-C result of 230,569 tpmC, $2.63/tpmC, avail. 12/01/06
SPECint_rate2006 64-core 64 3.86 780 2,610 1510 72.8% HP DL980
SPECfp_rate2006 64-core 64 3.86 780 2,300 1080 112.9% HP DL980
SPECint_rate2006 256-core 256 4.00 795 11,200 3354 233% SGI Altix
SPECfp_rate2006 256-core 256 4.00 795 10,400 3507 196% SGI Altix
SPECjbb2005 256-core 256 4.00 795 21,058,767 12,665,917 66.2% SGI Altix
SPECjbb2005 64-core 64 3.86 780 5,210,501 3,816,799 36.5% HP DL980 Sources:
SPECjbb2005 32-core 32 4.14 780 3,031,184 1,296,080 133.8% HP DL785 http://www.spec.org
SPECjbb2005 16-core 16 3.86 780 1,331,641 1,017,141 30.9% Cisco UCS B230
http://www.tpc.org
http://www.sap.com/benchmark/
Lotus NotesBench R6Mail 16 1.65 i5-595 175,000 120,000 45.8% 8 2-way HP ProLiant BL20p
http://performance.netlib.org/performance/html/PDSreports.html
Lotus NotesBench D7 R6iNotes 16 1.8 p5-560Q 55,000 43,000 27.9% Sun T5120 All results are as of 11/01/10.
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 2-core 2 3.8 JS12 12,885 7,612 69.2% Sun Fire X4200
TPC-C results with processor chip/core/thread.
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 4-core 4 4.2 520 20,443 13,817 47.9% Sun V40z
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) 16-core 16 3.55 740* 95,002 35,896 164% Sun X6440 SAP certification numbers can be found in SAP section of charts.
SPEC OMPM2001 (peak) Overall 64 5 595 242,116 104,714 88.8% Sun/Fujitsu M8000
SPEC OMPL2001 base (64-core) 64 2.30 p5-595 1,005,583 532,576 98.1% Sun/Fujitsu M8000
LINPACK HPC 2-core 2 5 570 17.47 12.05 44.9% HP rx1620
LINPACK HPC 4-core 4 4.7 520 65 21.71 199.4% HP rx5670 © 2011 IBM Corporation
23 LINPACK HPC 8-core 8 5 550 137.6 48.55 183.4% HP rx6600
LINPACK HPC 16-core 16 5 570 277.7 88.8 212.7% HP rx8620