As reported on earlier, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server running OpenSolaris 2009.06 source code and the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) software (version 1.6.0_14 Performance Release), posted a single-chip world record on the SPECjbb2005.

The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server with a 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 processor delivered 2.6x better performance than the IBM p570 with one 4.7 GHz POWER6 processor and consumed only 520 watts on average, according to Sun's report of the benchmark result.

An entry on the BestPerf blog posted by Kevin Kelly takes a closer look at these results and points out the significance of this single chip world record, which resulted in 231464 SPECjbb2005 bops and 28933 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, noting them as follows:

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 3% better performance over the Fujitsu TX100 result of 223691 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 8% better performance over the IBM x3200 result of 214578 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 10% better performance over the Fujitsu RX100 result of 211144 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3.16 GHz Xeon X3380 processor.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 19% better performance over the IBM X3350 result of 194256 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 3 GHz Xeon X3370 processor.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (one 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 chip) demonstrated 2.6X the performance over the IBM p570 result of 88089 SPECjbb2005 bops which used one 4.7 GHz POWER6 processor.

• One Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (one 1.6GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus chip, 2RU) has 2.1 the power/performance than the IBM Power 570 (4RU) that used two 4.7GHz POWER6 chips.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 used OpenSolaris 2009.06 and the Sun JDK 1.6.0_14 Performance Release to obtain this result.

Kelly's blog entry provides the comparative performance landscape in chart-form for easy comparison, results and configuration summary, along with key points and best practices used.

The SPECjbb2005 is an industry-standard benchmark that emulates the design of real-world server-side Java applications.

More Information

Best Perf blog entry - by Kevin Kelly

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