Version 5.1 November 2008 Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Pages 33 Abstract This document contains a summary of the benchmarks executed for the PRIMERGY TX150 S6. The PRIMERGY TX150 S6 performance data are compared with the data of other PRIMERGY models and discussed. In addition to the benchmark results, an explanation has been included for each benchmark and for the benchmark environment. Contents Technical Data .....................................................................................
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Technical Data The PRIMERGY TX150 S6 is a mono -socket tower server.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 SPECcpu2006 ∗ Benchmark description SPECcpu2006 is a benchmark to measure system efficiency during integer and floating point operations. It consists of an integer test suite containing 12 applications and a floating point test suite containing 17 applications which are extremely computing-intensive and concentrate on the CPU and memory. Other components, such as disk I/O and network, are not measured by this benchmark.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 • Xeon E3110 and E3120 (Wolfdale, 2 cores per chip, 6 MB L2 cache per chip) • Xeon X3210 and X3220 (Kentsfield, 4 cores per chip, 4 MB L2 cache per 2 cores) • Xeon X3350, X3360 and X3370 (Yorkfield, 4 cores per chip, 6 MB L2 cache per 2 cores) The following two tables show results, in which all benchmark programs were compiled with the Intel C++/Fortran compiler 10.1.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 The measured SPECint_rate_2006 results are 12-17% above the SPECint_rate_base2006 results. Processor cores/ GHz chip L2 cache FSB TDP SPECfp_rate_base2006 SPECfp_rate2006 Celeron 440 1 2 ½ MB per chip 800 MHz 35 watt 12.3 13.1 Pentium Dual-Core E2140 2 1.60 1 MB per chip 800 MHz 65 watt 18.0 18.8 Pentium Dual-Core E2160 2 1.80 1 MB per chip 800 MHz 65 watt 19.8 20.6 Pentium Dual-Core E2200 2 2.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 The measured SPECfp_rate_2006 results are 4-9% above the SPECfp_rate_base2006 results. The following four tables show results, in which all benchmark programs were compiled with the Intel C++/Fortran compiler 10.1 and run under SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (64-bit). Significantly higher results were achieved with the Intel C++/Fortran compiler 11.0 than would have been expected with version 10.1.
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White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 SPECjbb2005 ∗ Benchmark description SPECjbb2005 is a Java business benchmark that focuses on the performance of Java server platforms. It is essentially a modernized version of SPECjbb2000 with the main differences being: • The transactions have become more complex in order to cover a greater functional scope. • The working set of the benchmark has been enlarged to the extent that the total system load has increased.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark results In November 2007 the PRIMERGY TX150 S6 was measured with the Xeon X3210 processor and a memory of 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2-SDRAM. The measurement was taken under Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1. As JVM, two instances of JRockit(R) 6.0 P27.4.0 (build P27.4.0-10-90053-1.6.0_02-20071009-1827-windows-x86_64) by BEA were used.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 In August 2008 the PRIMERGY TX150 S6 was measured with the Xeon X3370 processor and a memory of 8 GB PC26400 DDR2-SDRAM. The measurement was taken under Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition. As JVM, two instances of JRockit(R) 6.0 P27.5.0 (build P27.5.0-5-97156-1.6.0_03-20080403-1524-windows-x86_64) by BEA were used.
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White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 SPECpower_ssj2008 * Benchmark description SPECpower_ssj2008 is the first industry-standard SPEC benchmark that evaluates the power and performance characteristics of server class computers. With SPECpower_ssj2008, SPEC has defined server power measurement standards in the same way they have done for performance. The benchmark workload represents typical server-side Java business applications.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark results In June 2008 the PRIMERGY TX150 S6 was measured with an Intel Xeon X3360 processor and 4 GB of PC2-6400E DDR2-SDRAM memory. The measurement was taken under Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition and a JRockit(R) 6.0 P27.5.0 JVM by Oracle was used. With the Xeon X3360 processor the PRIMERGY TX150 S6 achieved a world record score which exceeded the previous front runner by 6.7% * in energy efficiency.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 The Xeon processor comparison diagram shows measurements with four different Xeon CPUs measured with the PRIMERGY TX150 S6. All other configuration details remained unchanged during the measurements. Obviously the throughput changes when using different CPUs with different frequencies or different number of cores per chip. That is exactly what the bars show in the diagram above.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 As you can see in the diagram above not only the right choice of processors has a significant influence on power consumption but other configuration details as well. Doubling the memory for example from 2 x 2 GB to 4 x 2 GB increases the power consumption at all load levels by about 6-7 watts on an average.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 As you can see the most energy efficient configuration does not consume the lowest power. It is still about 108% more efficient compared to the least energy efficient configuration. The configuration with the Xeon E3120 processor has the lowest power consumption.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 SPECweb2005 ∗ Benchmark description SPECweb2005 is the next generation web server benchmark developed by the Open Systems Group (OSG) of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). It is the successor of SPECweb99 and SPECweb99_SSL and it measures the performance of a HTTP server under a standardized load of static and dynamic requests.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark results In April 2008 the PRIMERGY TX150 S6 was measured with one Xeon X3220 processor and 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2SDRAM. Two quad-port Intel PRO/1000GT and one Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 (onboard) were used for the network. A FibreCAT CX500 with 45 hard disks, which was connected via an Emulex LP10000DC fibre channel controller, was used as disk subsystem. A RAID 5 was built across the 45 hard disks.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark environment TX150 S6 with Xeon X3220: 60 × PRIMERGY BX300 2 x Pentium III 933 MHz 1 GB RAM 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme (onboard) Windows XP Professional SP1 PRIMERGY TX150 S6 1 × Xeon 3220 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2-SDRAM 1 × Emulex LP10000DC fibre channel controller 2 × dual-channel Intel PRO/1000GT 1 × Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM 5708 (onboard) Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (2.6.18-53.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 TX150 S6 with Xeon X3360: 80 × PRIMERGY BX300 2 x Pentium III 933 MHz 1 GB RAM 2 x Broadcom NetXtreme (onboard) Windows XP Professional SP1 PRIMERGY TX150 S6 1 × Xeon 3360 8 GB PC2-6400 DDR2-SDRAM 1 × Emulex LPe11002 fibre channel controller 2 × dual-channel Intel PRO/1000GT 1 × Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM 5708 (onboard) Operating system: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.1 (2.6.18-53.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 StorageBench Benchmark description To estimate the capability of disk subsystems Fujitsu Technology Solutions defined a benchmark called StorageBench to compare the different storage systems connected to a system. To do this StorageBench makes use of the Iometer measuring tool developed by Intel combined with a defined set of load profiles that occur in real customer applications and a defined measuring scenario.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Measurement scenario In order to obtain comparable measurement results it is important to perform all the measurements in identical, reproducible environments.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark results The PRIMERGY TX150 S6 is equipped with controllers from the “Modular RAID” family. The variety of the RAID solutions enables the user to choose the right controller for his application scenario. The PRIMERGY TX150 S6 has the following RAID solutions to offer: 1.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 the shorter latency times. Here again the RAID 0 array achieves almost twice the write throughput through parallel accesses, as compared with the other two configurations. Enabling the disk cache leads to an increase in throughput during random access. However this increase is not as noticeable as with sequential writing.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 LSI MegaRAID SAS 1068 Below is a comparison of the performance of various hard disk types with the LSI MegaRAID SAS 1068 controller. The controller does not have a controller cache. Therefore, measurements were only performed with and without a disk cache. In the test setup two hard disks were connected to the controller and configured as a RAID 1.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 The following diagram shows that for random access with 67% reads the disk cache also plays an important role in improving throughput. An increase in throughput of up to 30% was achieved for the SATA hard disk with 8 KB blocks. For the 3½" 15 krpm SAS hard disks the increase in throughput with 8 KB blocks is somewhat smaller, namely 23%.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 The following graphic shows that during random access in RAID 1 the combination of the “Write-back” and “Disk cache enabled” options has a decisive influence on throughput. The improvement in throughput is 48% or 56%, depending on whether access is with 64 KB or 8 KB block size. For random access in RAID 5 it is advisable to enable the controller cache by setting the write-mode option to “Write-back”.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 When the onboard SATA ICH9R controller is compared with the LSI MegaRAID SAS 1068 controller, it is evident that both controllers offer roughly the same performance when measurements are carried out with the same SATA hard disks and optimum cache settings. The variations in performance are within the range of measuring accuracy. Relevant differences in throughput were found in sequential writing and deactivated disk cache.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark environment All the measurements presented here were performed with the hardware and software components listed below. Component Details Server PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Operating system Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition Version: 5.2.3790 Service Pack 1 Build 3790 File system NTFS Measuring tool Iometer 27.07.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 OLTP-2 Benchmark description OLTP stands for Online Transaction Processing. The OLTP-2 benchmark is based on the typical application scenario of a database solution. In OLTP-2 database access is simulated and the number of transactions achieved per second (tps) determined as the unit of measurement for the performance of the system measured.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 OLTP-2: OLTP-2:PRIMERGY PRIMERGYTX150 TX150S6 S6 175 175 t ps t ps 150 150 125 125 100 100 +16% +16% +4% +4% +24% +24% 75 75 +8% +8% +8% +8% 62.38 62.38 +115% +115% 50 50 50.32 50.32 46.50 46.50 43.06 43.06 75.05 75.05 64.54 64.54 25 25 20.07 20.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Benchmark environment Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition and database SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition. Clients: 2 x PRIMERGY Econel 200 with 2 x Xeon 3.
White Paper ⏐Performance Report PRIMERGY TX150 S6 Version: 5.1, November 2008 Literature PRIMERGY Systems http://ts.fujitsu.com/primergy PRIMERGY TX150 S6 http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=af1d8493-dfbb-478e-89c9-92e917929234 PRIMERGY Performance http://ts.fujitsu.com/products/standard_servers/primergy_bov.html OLTP-2 Benchmark Overview OLTP-2 http://docs.ts.fujitsu.com/dl.aspx?id=e6f7a4c9-aff6-4598-b199-836053214d3f http://www.spec.
