A single Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server in the database tier with four 1.4 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors delivered a single system World Record result of 5836.15 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard while using the Oracle WebLogic 10.3 Application Server and Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition.

This benchmark result proves that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server using the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor performs not only as an outstanding J2EE application server but also as an Oracle 11g OLTP database server.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server demonstrated 32% better performance over the HP DL580 G5 result of 4410.07 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, which used four 2.66 GHz Intel 6-core Xeon processors.

There are no 4-chip IBM POWER6 results on this current widely-published benchmark, although there are results (1197.51 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard) for the IBM p570 using two 4.7 GHz IBM POWER6 chips.

The one Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server demonstrated 75% better performance over the HP DL580 G5 result of 3339.94 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, which used four 2.93 GHz Intel 4-core Xeon processors.

Again, the one Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server demonstrated 22% better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 2950 result of 4794.33 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, which used two Dell 2950 systems with four 2.66 GHz Intel 6-core Xeon processors.

The same single Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server demonstrated 62% better performance over the Dell PowerEdge 1950 result of 3593.68 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard, which used two Dell 1950 systems with four 2.93 GHz Intel Xeon processors.

All the above results were obtained using Sun Java SE 6 Update 6 Performance Release on the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server and running the Solaris 10 10/08 Operating Environment. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server used Solaris Containers technology to consolidate 7 Oracle Weblogic application server instances to achieve this result.

The power-performance metric is a measure of server efficiency ratio that includes system power and performance consumption on a specific benchmark. (Power-performance = Watts / Performance).

SPECjAppServer2004 (Java Application Server) is a multi-tier benchmark for measuring the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) technology-based application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is an end-to-end application which exercises all major J2EE technologies implemented by compliant application servers as follows:

• The web container, including servlets and JSPs
• The EJB container
• EJB2.0 Container Managed Persistence
• JMS and Message Driven Beans
• Transaction management
• Database connectivity

Furthermore, SPECjAppServer2004 also heavily exercises all parts of the underlying infrastructure that make up the application environment, including hardware, JVM software, database software, JDBC drivers, and the system network.

The primary metric of the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark is jAppServer Operations Per Second (JOPS) which is calculated by adding the metrics of the Dealership Management Application in the Dealer Domain and the Manufacturing Application in the Manufacturing Domain. There is NO price/performance metric in this benchmark. [...read more...]

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