Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,155,106
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,388
Test Sponsor: Dell Inc. SPEC License #: 55 Test Method: Multi Node
Tested By: Dell Inc. Test Location: Round Rock, TX, USA Test Date: Jun 20, 2012
Hardware Availability: May-2012 Software Availability: Dec-2011 Publication: Jul 11, 2012
System Source: Single Supplier System Designation: Server Power Provisioning: Line-powered
Benchmark Results Summary
Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
Target Actual
Calibration 1     1,158,397
Calibration 2     1,161,505
Calibration 3     1,161,013
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,161,259
100% 99.5% 1,161,259 1,155,106
90% 90.1% 1,045,133 1,046,505
80% 79.9% 929,007 927,536
70% 69.9% 812,881 811,761
60% 60.1% 696,755 697,345
50% 49.8% 580,629 578,635
40% 39.9% 464,504 462,776
30% 30.0% 348,378 348,092
20% 20.0% 232,252 232,207
10% 10.0% 116,126 116,017
Active Idle   0 0
Graph of results
System Under Test
Set: 'sut'
Set Identifier: sut
Set Description: M420
# of Identical Nodes: 32
Comment: None
Hardware
Hardware Vendor: Dell Inc.
Model: PowerEdge M420
Form Factor: Blade
CPU Name: Intel Xeon E5-2470 (2.3 GHz)
CPU Characteristics: 8 Core, 2.30 GHz, 20MB L3 Cache
CPU Frequency (MHz): 2300
CPU(s) Enabled: 16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip
Hardware Threads: 32 (2 / core)
CPU(s) Orderable: 1,2 chips
Primary Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core
Secondary Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per chip
Tertiary Cache: 20 MB I+D on chip per chip
Other Cache: None
Memory Amount (GB): 24
# and size of DIMM: 6 x 4096 MB
Memory Details: 4GB 2Rx8 PC3L-10600R ECC RDIMM, Slots A1-A3, B1-B3 populated
Power Supply Quantity and Rating (W): None
Power Supply Details: Shared
Disk Drive: 1 x 50 GB 1.8" SATA SSD Dell P/N 02KFM
Disk Controller: PERC H310
# and type of Network Interface Cards (NICs) Installed: 1 x Onboard dual-port Broadcom 10Gb Ethernet
NICs Enabled in Firmware / OS / Connected: 2/2/1
Network Speed (Mbit): 1000
Keyboard: None
Mouse: None
Monitor: None
Optical Drives: No
Other Hardware: None
Software
Power Management: Power Saver Mode in OS (See Notes)
Operating System (OS): Windows 2008 Server Enterprise x64 Edition
OS Version: R2 SP1
Filesystem: NTFS
JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation
JVM Version: Oracle Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM on Windows, version 1.6.0_30
JVM Command-line Options: -server -showversion -Xmx1600m -Xms1600m -Xmn1200m -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2 -XX:SurvivorRatio=60 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:InlineSmallCode=3900 -XX:MaxInlineSize=270 -XX:FreqInlineSize=2500 -XX:AllocatePrefetchDistance=256 -XX:AllocatePrefetchLines=4 -XX:InitialTenuringThreshold=12 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:LoopUnrollLimit=45 -XX:+UseCompressedStrings -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+UseLargePages -XX:+UseParallelOldGC
JVM Affinity: start /affinity [F, F0, F00, F000, F0000, F00000, F000000, F0000000]
JVM Instances: 8
JVM Initial Heap (MB): 1600
JVM Maximum Heap (MB): 1600
JVM Address Bits: 64
Boot Firmware Version: 1.0.0
Management Firmware Version: iDRAC7 1.10 Build 20
Workload Version: SSJ 1.2.9
Director Location: Controller
Other Software: None
Boot Firmware Settings
  • Adjacent Cache Line Prefetch disabled.
  • Hardware Prefetcher Disabled.
  • DCU Streamer Prefetcher disabled.
  • User Accessible USB Ports set to Disabled.
  • CPU Power management set to System DBPM (DAPC).
  • Memory Speed set to 1067MHz.
  • Turbo Boost Disabled.
  • C1E Enabled.
  • C States enabled
  • QPI speed set to 6.4 GT/s.
  • Memory Patrol Scrub disabled.
  • Memory refresh rate set to 1x.
  • Memory Operating Voltage set to Auto.
    • Management Firmware Settings
    none
    System Under Test Notes
  • Each JVM instance was affinitized to four logical processors.
  • Using the local security settings console, "lock pages in memory" was enabled for the user running the benchmark.
  • Run was started remotely via psexec script.
  • Windows Power Saver Settings:
  • Turn off Hard Disk after 1 Minute.
  • Turn off Display after 1 Minute.
  • SPECpower_ssj.props input.load_level.number_warehouses set to 32 due to a known inconsistency in processor reporting with this Java version.
    • Notes
    None
    JVM Instance Summary
    JVM Instance ssj_ops@100%
    M420-02c.001 143,632
    M420-02c.002 143,470
    M420-02c.003 145,020
    M420-02c.004 144,342
    M420-02c.005 144,706
    M420-02c.006 143,188
    M420-02c.007 143,123
    M420-02c.008 147,626
    ssj_ops@100% 1,155,106
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,388
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-02c.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,213
    Calibration 2     144,196
    Calibration 3     144,034
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,115
    100% 99.7% 144,115 143,632
    90% 90.7% 129,703 130,678
    80% 80.1% 115,292 115,495
    70% 70.3% 100,880 101,339
    60% 60.1% 86,469 86,584
    50% 49.7% 72,057 71,600
    40% 40.1% 57,646 57,777
    30% 29.9% 43,234 43,073
    20% 19.7% 28,823 28,381
    10% 9.9% 14,411 14,271
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,785
    Calibration 2     144,556
    Calibration 3     143,733
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,145
    100% 99.5% 144,145 143,470
    90% 91.0% 129,730 131,203
    80% 79.9% 115,316 115,174
    70% 69.6% 100,901 100,309
    60% 60.1% 86,487 86,628
    50% 49.4% 72,072 71,172
    40% 40.0% 57,658 57,711
    30% 30.0% 43,243 43,246
    20% 20.0% 28,829 28,864
    10% 9.9% 14,414 14,283
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,396
    Calibration 2     144,461
    Calibration 3     144,605
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,533
    100% 100.3% 144,533 145,020
    90% 89.2% 130,080 128,955
    80% 78.4% 115,626 113,306
    70% 69.8% 101,173 100,956
    60% 60.5% 86,720 87,399
    50% 49.9% 72,267 72,126
    40% 39.3% 57,813 56,777
    30% 29.9% 43,360 43,250
    20% 20.0% 28,907 28,856
    10% 10.3% 14,453 14,842
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,651
    Calibration 2     146,365
    Calibration 3     146,248
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,306
    100% 98.7% 146,306 144,342
    90% 89.6% 131,676 131,083
    80% 79.7% 117,045 116,589
    70% 70.0% 102,414 102,480
    60% 60.7% 87,784 88,746
    50% 49.5% 73,153 72,425
    40% 39.9% 58,523 58,418
    30% 30.1% 43,892 44,017
    20% 20.3% 29,261 29,700
    10% 9.8% 14,631 14,333
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,259
    Calibration 2     145,537
    Calibration 3     145,870
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,703
    100% 99.3% 145,703 144,706
    90% 90.2% 131,133 131,389
    80% 80.6% 116,563 117,472
    70% 69.6% 101,992 101,341
    60% 60.2% 87,422 87,760
    50% 50.3% 72,852 73,229
    40% 39.9% 58,281 58,177
    30% 30.2% 43,711 44,001
    20% 20.1% 29,141 29,267
    10% 10.0% 14,570 14,637
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,636
    Calibration 2     144,166
    Calibration 3     143,751
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,958
    100% 99.5% 143,958 143,188
    90% 89.6% 129,563 129,020
    80% 80.1% 115,167 115,292
    70% 70.1% 100,771 100,966
    60% 59.9% 86,375 86,169
    50% 49.5% 71,979 71,296
    40% 39.3% 57,583 56,639
    30% 29.5% 43,188 42,503
    20% 20.0% 28,792 28,802
    10% 9.8% 14,396 14,104
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,220
    Calibration 2     144,137
    Calibration 3     144,980
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,558
    100% 99.0% 144,558 143,123
    90% 90.8% 130,102 131,221
    80% 80.4% 115,647 116,231
    70% 69.9% 101,191 101,017
    60% 59.7% 86,735 86,299
    50% 49.5% 72,279 71,541
    40% 40.1% 57,823 57,978
    30% 30.2% 43,367 43,649
    20% 20.0% 28,912 28,918
    10% 10.1% 14,456 14,558
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02c.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     147,237
    Calibration 2     148,087
    Calibration 3     147,793
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,940
    100% 99.8% 147,940 147,626
    90% 89.9% 133,146 132,957
    80% 79.7% 118,352 117,978
    70% 69.9% 103,558 103,353
    60% 59.3% 88,764 87,761
    50% 50.9% 73,970 75,246
    40% 40.1% 59,176 59,299
    30% 30.0% 44,382 44,352
    20% 19.9% 29,588 29,420
    10% 10.1% 14,794 14,989
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.