World Record Four-Processor Performance on Industry-Standard HPC Benchmark

(As of Monday, 13 October 2008)

Oracle's Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and running Oracle Solaris and Oracle Solaris Studio 12 software, delivered a SPECompL2001 result of 235,655, a new world record for systems with four or fewer chips.

SPEC OMP2001 is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications. It represents a collection of applications that are used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design, and several other areas, and consists of medium and large problem sets. All C/C++ and FORTRAN applications in this suite use the OpenMP programming model which provides a portable, scalable model for developing parallel applications for platforms ranging from the desktop to the supercomputer. The OpenMP Application Program Interface (API) supports multi-platform shared-memory parallel programming in C/C++ and FORTRAN on all architectures.

• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors delivered a 32 cores/4 chips/255 threads world record SPECompL2001 result of 235,655 for systems with four or fewer processors.
• The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server, equipped with four 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors also delivered the best 32 cores/4 chips/255 threads SPECompL_base2001 result of 208,492 for systems with four or fewer processors. The "base" scores are produced using less optimized benchmark binaries compiled under stricter guidelines. Although "base" scores may not reflect the ultimate performance of the system, end users who prefer to spend less time tuning their compiler optimizations may find them more relevant.
• Compared to other commodity systems built with x86 processors and using 'base' metrics to reflect out-of-the-box type of deployments, the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 system equipped with 1.4GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors delivered more than 1.4x the performance of a four socket 2.5GHz AMD Opteron 8360SE-based system, which posted a SPECompL_base2001 score of 146,796. Additionally, the server delivered more than 2.5x the performance of a four-socket 2.93GHz Intel Xeon X7350-based system that posted a SPECompL_base2001 score of 82,487.

• 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 http://www.spec.org as of the date located next to the respective claim. See the Website for latest results. Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 (4 x UltraSPARC-T2+ chips, 32 cores, 256 threads) SPECompL_base2001 - 208,492. Supermicro X7QC3 (4 x Intel Xeon X7350, 16 cores, 16 threads): SPECompL_base2001 - 82,487. Tyan Thunder n425QE (S4985E) (4xQuad-Core AMD Opteron processor 8360 SE, 16 cores, 16 threads): SPECompL_base2001 - 146,796.