Sun Studio Benchmarks

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Sun Studio software, with its optimizing compilers, delivers record-setting runtime performance with the Solaris operating system on Sun workstations and servers. Recognized industry standard benchmarks demonstrate Sun Studio software's contribution to outstanding performance with real-world applications on UltraSPARC and x64/x86-based systems.

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish, maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC develops suites of benchmarks and also reviews and publishes submitted results from their member organizations and other benchmark licensees.

On the compute intensive industry-standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the Sun Fire X4100 server has achieved SPECfp2000 result of 2,344, setting a new world record for all x86-compatible systems, as of September 12, 2005. The Sun Fire X4100 server demonstrates at least 30% performance benefit when compared to the competitive servers outfitted with the Intel Xeon EM64T-capable family of processors. Specifically, on the floating point test, the Sun Fire X4100 server tops the performance of Dell PowerEdge 2850 and IBM xSeries 346 servers (1780 and 1807 respectively). Moreover, the new server easily surpasses the competitive systems powered by AMD Opteron processor, such as the HP Proliant DL145 G2 with a score of 2084, by over 12%. This result also highlights the combined power of the Sun Studio 11 software and Solaris 10 OS duo. The Sun Studio 11 software is the latest release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimized for the Solaris 10 operating system running on the latest Sun Fire servers.

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On the compute intensive industry-standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the Sun Fire X4100 server has achieved SPECfp_rate2000 result of 53.8, setting a new world record for all 2-way x86-compatible systems, as of September 12, 2005. The server, motivated by the Sun Studio 11 software, the latest release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimized for the Solaris 10 OS, has over 1.7 times the performance of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and HP DL360G4 servers and up to 1.68 times the performance of an IBM xSeries 336 server.

Additionally, when equipped with the multi-core AMD Opteron Processors SE model 280, the Sun Fire X4100 server has posted the SPECfp_rate2000 result of 79.1 and demonstrated more than 1.5 times the performance of the competitive servers outfitted with the Intel Itanium2 or Xeon EM64T-capable family of processors. Specifically, on the floating point throughput test, the Sun Fire X4100 server tops the performance of Dell PowerEdge 6850 and HP rx1620-2 (52.5 and 50.4 respectively).

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On the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark, that is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications, the Sun Fire X4100 server with two SINGLE-CORE AMD Opteron 254 processors produced a score of 7,612 and set the new World Record in 2-thread category. The benchmark represents a collection of applications that are used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. Not surprisingly, the 20 years of Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) systems expertise in combination with Solaris 10 OS features like Memory Placement Optimization (MPO) and Sun Studio 10 compiler software, allowed Sun's server to shine on this HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload.

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On the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark, that is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications, the Sun Fire V40z server with four dual-core chips produced a score of 17,230 and set the new World Record in 8-thread category, overstepping the dual chip dual core Power5-based IBM eServer OpenPower 720 score of 10,750, by over 60%. The benchmark represents a collection of applications that are used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. Not surprisingly, the 20 years of Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) systems expertise in combination with Solaris 10 OS features like Memory Placement Optimization (MPO) and Sun Studio 10 compiler software, allowed Sun's server to shine on this HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload.

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On the compute intensive industry-standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the Sun Fire V40z server has achieved SPECfp_rate2000 result of 138, setting a new world record for all 8-way x86-compatible systems, as of April 21, 2005. This record outshines the previous top score of 41.1, which was set by the Intel Xeon MP-based HP ProLiant DL740 server, by over 3x. The enhanced 4-socket server, equipped with the dual-core Opteron processors, demonstrates more than double the performance of the single-core 4-socket competitive servers outfitted with the newest Intel Xeon MP EM64T-capable family of processors. Specifically, Sun Fire V40z server tops the performance of HP ProLiant ML570 G3 and Dell PowerEdge 6850 servers (52.6 and 52.5 respectively) by over 2.5x on the floating point throughput test.

Additionally, for the enterprises with a high demand for space, the new 8-way configuration will allow to achieve up to 2x performance gain in the same footprint, when compared with the Sun Fire V40z server running single-core Opteron processors at the same clock speed. This result also highlights the combined power of the Sun Studio 10 software and Solaris 10 OS duo. Deployed on the latest Sun Fire servers, this combination allow Sun's customers to experience significant performance boost, when compared with the results obtained under Linux using other compiler suites.

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The Sun Studio 10 software and Solaris 10 OS dynamic duo coupled with the latest Sun Fire servers delivers two new world record SPEC OMPM2001 results. Sun's customers now can reap the performance benefits of the Sun Studio 10 software compiler, which provided an 11 percent performance boost on the same hardware configuration. The comparison is based on the previous top SPECompM2001 result of 11,223, which was obtained under Linux using the third-party compiler suite. The SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark suite consists of 11 High Performance Computing (HPC) applications written in C and FORTRAN. All of them use the OpenMP programming model and were compiled using the Sun Studio 10 software. The Sun Fire V40z server, which provides excellent deployment platform for a number of high-performance and compute-intensive applications, equipped with four single core chips, produced a SPECompM2001 result of 12,434 and with the two single core chips, posted a SPECompM2001 result of 7,129.

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The Sun Fire V40z server set a new high watermark score of 116,142 JBBops/s claiming a four-way 64-bit World Record on the SPEC JBB2000 benchmark, which measures the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, as well as the performance of the underlying operating system and the scalability of the system's processors and memory. This new record clearly demonstrates that Solaris 10 and Java 2 Platform Standard Edition(J2SE 5.0), compiled using Sun Studio 10 software, can deliver better results than Linux when used in combination with top-performing servers from Sun.

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The Sun Fire V20z server, configured with two AMD Opteron Model 250 processors and running Solaris 10 OS, achieved a new World Record SPEC OMPM2001 result of 6,033 for all systems executing two parallel threads, as of February 1, 2005. SPEC OMPM2001, is a key benchmark that is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications. It represents a collection of C and FORTRAN applications that employ the OpenMP programming model and used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. These applications were compiled using the latest Sun Studio 10 development environment, which contributed to as much as a 20 percent boost in performance, when compared with Sun's 2-thread Linux-based result of 5,000.

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