Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 Sets World Record for Performance and Efficiency on SPECweb2005 Benchmark

(As of Tuesday, 09 October 2007)

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server running Oracle Solaris and Oracle iPlanet Web Server set a new world record in performance and performance per watt on the industry-standard measure of Web server performance. The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server outperformed competitive servers running Red Hat Enterprise Linux and equipped with the latest Intel quad core and AMD dual core processors. These results confirm the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server as the industry's highest performing and most efficient platform for deployment of secure Web services.

SPECweb2005 is the industry-standard benchmark for evaluating Web server performance. The benchmark simulates multiple user sessions accessing a Web server and generating static and dynamic HTTP requests. The major features of SPECweb2005 are:

• Measures simultaneous user sessions
• Dynamic content: currently PHP and JSP implementations
• Page images requested using 2 parallel HTTP connections
• Multiple, standardized workloads: Banking (HTTPS), E-commerce (HTTP and HTTPS), and Support (HTTP)
• Simulates browser caching effects
• File accesses more accurately simulate today's disk access patterns

Competitive Comparisons Table

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server obtained a world record 37,001 SPECweb2005 users with one UltraSPARC T2 processor running Oracle Solaris and Oracle iPlanet Web Server. This world record benchmark clearly demonstrates that the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server can support thousands of concurrent Web server sessions while allowing larger and more complex Java applications to be run in-process for better performance and scalability. The powerful combination of the unique 8-core/64 threads UltraSPARC T2 processor, rock-solid Oracle iPlanet Web Server, and Oracle Solaris provides the highest performing and most efficient Web serving environment available.
• Customers prefer to use secured Web server technology by default. However this typically means doubling the amount of hardware deployed. Consequently, due to cost concerns, customers only use SSL for the most critical functions. The integrated cryptographic accelerators in the UltraSPARC T2 processor and security software features available under Oracle Solaris, practically eliminate the performance penalty of secured Web services. Customers can, for the first time, use SSL-enabled Web services for all of their needs.
• Compared to the HP Proliant DL580 G5, equipped with four of the latest quad-core Intel Xeon 7300 Series 2.93GHz "Tigerton" processors and running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the single-processor Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 22% higher throughput, and consumes nearly 1.8x less power and 2x less space. As a result the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers over 2x higher performance per watt and 4.3x higher SWaP (server efficiency).
• Compared to the HP Proliant DL380 G5, equipped with two of the latest quad core Intel Xeon 5300 Series "Clovertown" processors and running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 1.8x higher throughput, in equivalent levels of power and space. As a result the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 1.7x higher performance per watt and SWaP (server efficiency).
• Compared to the HP Proliant DL585 G2, equipped with four dual core AMD Opteron processors and running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers over 1.65x higher throughput using 1.4x less power and 2x less space. As a result the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server delivers 2.3x higher performance per watt and 4.6 x SWaP (server efficiency).

• Benchmark Results

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. Competitive data obtained from www.spec.org as of the date located next to the respective claim. See the Website for latest results. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server (8 cores, 1 chip) 37,001 SPECweb2005, submitted to SPEC for review HP DL580G5 (16 cores, 4 chips) 30,261 SPECweb2005. HP Dl380G5 (8 cores, 2 chips) 20,387 SPECweb2005. HP DL585G2(8 cores, 4 chips) 22,254 SPECweb20055?HP DL580G5 power consumption from HP Power Calculator system configured with 4 x2.93GHz processors, redundant PSU, 16 x 4GB DIMMs, 8 x 36GB SAS drives,1 x PCI card, 80% utilization on 9/10/07: