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Archived Performance Articles
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26 Mar 2012
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World Record x86 Performance on Industry Standard Java Middleware and Transactional Database Benchmarks [25803]
Oracle Sun Fire X4800 M2 Once Again Leads the Field in Performance
Oracles Sun Fire X4800 M2 server running Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and Oracle Tuxedo set an x86 world record result on the SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark with Oracle WebLogic Server 12c and Oracle Database 11g Release 2. This single node world record outstrips the best IBM System x3850 X5 single node result, delivering 1.63 times more performance and HP ProLiant DL580 G7 by 2.8 times. Server hardware had a calculated price/performance advantage of 14 times over IBM Power 780. Oracle achieved 5,055,888 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $.89/tpmC.
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05 Mar 2012
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Benchmarks Using Oracle Solaris 11 [25620]
And the SPARC T4 Processor
Oracle's list of benchmarks involving Solaris 11 and the SPARC T4, T4-2, and T4-4 processors includes:
- SPARC T4-4 Beats 8-CPU IBM POWER7 on TPC-H @3000GB Benchmark
- SPARC T4-2 Record SPECjvm2008 with Solaris 11
- SPARC T4-2 Server Beats Intel* on ZFS Encryption
- SPARC T4 Processor Beats Intel* on AES Encryption
- SPARC T4 Processor Outperforms IBM POWER7 and Intel* on OpenSSL AES Encryption
- SPARC T4-1 Server Outperforms Intel* on IPsec Encryption
- SPARC T4-2 Server Beats Intel* on SSL Network
- SPARC T4-2 Server Beats Intel* on Oracle Database Tablespace Encryption Queries
* All Westmere AES-NI
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23 Jan 2012
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World Record x86 TPC-C Result [25269]
Sun Fire X4800 M2 Server
Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 M2 server equipped with eight 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870 chips and 4TB RAM and 160 CPU threads obtained a result of 4,803,718 tpmC on the TPC-C benchmark with a price performance of $0.98/tpmC using the Oracle Linux OS with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with partitioning. This result is 2.5x times better performance than the next 8-processor result, an IBM System p 570 equipped with POWER6 processors, and 3.1x times better price/performance than the 8-processor 4.7GHz POWER6 IBM System p 570.
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17 Jan 2012
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Oracle Sun Fire X4800 M2 Sets x86 World Record on TPC-C Benchmark [25260]
Outperforms IBM Power 750, HP Superdome and Proliant DL580 G7
Oracles Sun Fire X4800 M2, running Oracle Database 11g Release 2, achieved an x86 record of 4,803,718 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $.98/tpmC. The X4800 equipped with eight Intel Xeon E7-8870 processors and 4 Terabytes (TB) of Samsungs Green DDR3 memory was nearly 3x faster than IBM's eight-processor result for a p570 and nearly 60 percent faster than the best DB2 result on IBMs x86 server. The Sun Fire X4800 M2 delivered nearly 3x better price per TPC-C transaction than a 64-processor HP Superdome server and over 2.65x faster than HPs best Proliant DL580 G7 score.
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14 Dec 2011
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Record Performance Result for a Two Processor Intel-Based System with TPC-C Benchmark [25078]
Cisco UCS C250 M2 Rack-Mount Server with 2 Xeon® X5690 3.46 GHz processors
Oracle reports that its Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One and Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, running on a Cisco UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack-Mount Server with two Intel Xeon X5690 3.46 GHz processors, achieved 1,053,100 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $0.58/tpmC.com/us/corporate/press/1425234. This is in contrast to the nearly 11 percent lower per tpmC of the nearest competition -- the HP ProLiant DL380 G7 -- on a configuration utilizing identical Intel processors and memory capacity.
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09 Dec 2011
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Investigation Results in 2000x Performance Win [25034]
Looking at Performance Degradation in SmartOS
"Picking a non-C locale can hurt performance something that has been known for many years. In this case, a GNU grep(1) bug inflated the translation overhead to slow down performance by a huge degree: up to 2000x. In short: leave LANG=C; aim DTrace at everything even grep(1)." This is the recommendation Brendan Gregg arrives at in his post "2000x performance win." He recounts his experience in testing hypotheses framed to discover performance degradation in a production SmartOS cloud environment and the code samples involved with arriving at the conclusion above.
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