Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,157,058
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,632
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     1,156,269
Calibration 2     1,157,985
Calibration 3     1,158,278
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,158,132
100% 99.9% 1,158,132 1,157,058
90% 90.1% 1,042,318 1,043,560
80% 80.2% 926,505 928,549
70% 70.2% 810,692 812,514
60% 60.2% 694,879 697,184
50% 50.2% 579,066 581,437
40% 40.1% 463,253 463,908
30% 30.0% 347,439 347,312
20% 19.9% 231,626 230,276
10% 10.0% 115,813 115,383
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%
    M420-03b.001 143,074
    M420-03b.002 145,406
    M420-03b.003 142,550
    M420-03b.004 146,572
    M420-03b.005 147,237
    M420-03b.006 144,291
    M420-03b.007 142,816
    M420-03b.008 145,112
    ssj_ops@100% 1,157,058
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,632
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-03b.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,059
    Calibration 2     143,464
    Calibration 3     143,658
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,561
    100% 99.7% 143,561 143,074
    90% 90.6% 129,205 130,036
    80% 80.3% 114,849 115,294
    70% 69.3% 100,493 99,558
    60% 60.3% 86,136 86,639
    50% 49.7% 71,780 71,366
    40% 40.1% 57,424 57,539
    30% 29.8% 43,068 42,738
    20% 19.9% 28,712 28,524
    10% 10.0% 14,356 14,350
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,972
    Calibration 2     145,281
    Calibration 3     144,215
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,748
    100% 100.5% 144,748 145,406
    90% 90.7% 130,273 131,302
    80% 80.2% 115,798 116,051
    70% 69.7% 101,324 100,929
    60% 60.2% 86,849 87,129
    50% 50.0% 72,374 72,311
    40% 40.3% 57,899 58,351
    30% 29.9% 43,424 43,227
    20% 19.3% 28,950 27,977
    10% 10.3% 14,475 14,839
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,319
    Calibration 2     143,587
    Calibration 3     143,318
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,453
    100% 99.4% 143,453 142,550
    90% 90.1% 129,108 129,316
    80% 79.7% 114,762 114,348
    70% 70.1% 100,417 100,548
    60% 60.4% 86,072 86,634
    50% 50.0% 71,726 71,782
    40% 40.5% 57,381 58,081
    30% 29.8% 43,036 42,754
    20% 20.0% 28,691 28,646
    10% 10.0% 14,345 14,339
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,165
    Calibration 2     145,860
    Calibration 3     146,072
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,966
    100% 100.4% 145,966 146,572
    90% 89.7% 131,369 130,922
    80% 79.4% 116,772 115,851
    70% 70.1% 102,176 102,336
    60% 59.6% 87,579 86,930
    50% 51.1% 72,983 74,629
    40% 39.7% 58,386 57,884
    30% 30.2% 43,790 44,081
    20% 20.0% 29,193 29,154
    10% 9.8% 14,597 14,336
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,744
    Calibration 2     146,992
    Calibration 3     147,948
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,470
    100% 99.8% 147,470 147,237
    90% 90.4% 132,723 133,376
    80% 80.8% 117,976 119,105
    70% 70.8% 103,229 104,477
    60% 60.2% 88,482 88,784
    50% 50.4% 73,735 74,277
    40% 39.5% 58,988 58,245
    30% 30.2% 44,241 44,485
    20% 19.9% 29,494 29,324
    10% 10.0% 14,747 14,677
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,728
    Calibration 2     144,324
    Calibration 3     144,505
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,414
    100% 99.9% 144,414 144,291
    90% 89.2% 129,973 128,751
    80% 79.9% 115,531 115,458
    70% 70.7% 101,090 102,088
    60% 60.5% 86,649 87,410
    50% 50.6% 72,207 73,024
    40% 40.2% 57,766 58,100
    30% 30.0% 43,324 43,319
    20% 20.2% 28,883 29,123
    10% 9.8% 14,441 14,129
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,925
    Calibration 2     143,303
    Calibration 3     143,498
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,400
    100% 99.6% 143,400 142,816
    90% 90.1% 129,060 129,218
    80% 80.5% 114,720 115,480
    70% 70.7% 100,380 101,420
    60% 60.2% 86,040 86,376
    50% 49.9% 71,700 71,591
    40% 40.2% 57,360 57,588
    30% 29.8% 43,020 42,795
    20% 19.8% 28,680 28,413
    10% 9.7% 14,340 13,925
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03b.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,357
    Calibration 2     145,174
    Calibration 3     145,065
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,120
    100% 100.0% 145,120 145,112
    90% 90.0% 130,608 130,639
    80% 80.6% 116,096 116,962
    70% 69.7% 101,584 101,158
    60% 60.1% 87,072 87,283
    50% 49.9% 72,560 72,457
    40% 40.0% 58,048 58,120
    30% 30.3% 43,536 43,913
    20% 20.1% 29,024 29,115
    10% 10.2% 14,512 14,788
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.