BM Seer blogs yet again on his favorite subject, the record setting results racked up by Sun products in benchmarking exercises. This time he writes about the Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8 Opteron 2.5 Ghz QC) running Sun Java SE 6 Update 6-p, which achieved a result of 683542 SPECjbb2005 bops, 85443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM for the best score for all x86 based servers on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.

Seer writes that the Sun Fire X4600 M2 demonstrated 53% better performance over the Dell PowerEdge R900 result of 446209 SPECjbb2005 bops, 55776 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, which used 4 Intel Xeon quad-core processors at 2.93 GHz and the BEA JRocket JDK 1.6.0_02.

He also notes that the Sun Fire X4600 M2 (8-chip) demonstrated 3% better performance over the IBM p570 result of 664167 SPECjbb2005 bops, 83021 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM which used 8 Power6 dual-core processors. Seer explains the rationale behind Sun's comparison of IBM's p570 as having to do with the core-count vs. cost-per-core figure.

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 used Solaris 10 OS 5/08 and Sun JDK 1.6.0_06 Performance Release to obtain this leading result.

Complete benchmark results may be found at the SPEC benchmark website, http://www.spec.org.

The SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a Java implemented application tier (server-side Java). The benchmark is based on the order processing in a wholesale supplier application. The performance of the user tier and the database tier are not measured in this test. The metrics given are number of SPECjbb2005 bops (Business Operations per Second) and SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM (bops per JVM instance). [...read more...]

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