Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,155,575
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,447
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     1,157,739
Calibration 2     1,161,087
Calibration 3     1,158,814
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,159,951
100% 99.6% 1,159,951 1,155,575
90% 89.6% 1,043,956 1,039,640
80% 80.0% 927,961 928,168
70% 70.1% 811,966 813,544
60% 59.8% 695,970 694,100
50% 50.1% 579,975 580,964
40% 39.9% 463,980 462,811
30% 29.9% 347,985 347,136
20% 20.0% 231,990 231,542
10% 10.0% 115,995 115,659
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%
    M420-05d.001 145,320
    M420-05d.002 144,190
    M420-05d.003 143,123
    M420-05d.004 144,486
    M420-05d.005 143,835
    M420-05d.006 146,487
    M420-05d.007 144,321
    M420-05d.008 143,813
    ssj_ops@100% 1,155,575
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,447
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-05d.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,584
    Calibration 2     145,432
    Calibration 3     145,088
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,260
    100% 100.0% 145,260 145,320
    90% 90.3% 130,734 131,183
    80% 79.2% 116,208 114,989
    70% 69.9% 101,682 101,543
    60% 59.3% 87,156 86,163
    50% 50.4% 72,630 73,238
    40% 39.8% 58,104 57,841
    30% 29.5% 43,578 42,868
    20% 19.8% 29,052 28,713
    10% 9.9% 14,526 14,371
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,091
    Calibration 2     144,546
    Calibration 3     144,052
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,299
    100% 99.9% 144,299 144,190
    90% 90.1% 129,869 130,024
    80% 80.1% 115,439 115,607
    70% 70.4% 101,009 101,604
    60% 59.7% 86,579 86,127
    50% 49.9% 72,149 72,010
    40% 40.3% 57,720 58,115
    30% 29.7% 43,290 42,921
    20% 20.2% 28,860 29,147
    10% 9.6% 14,430 13,854
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,900
    Calibration 2     144,778
    Calibration 3     144,461
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,619
    100% 99.0% 144,619 143,123
    90% 89.1% 130,157 128,803
    80% 79.7% 115,696 115,262
    70% 70.3% 101,234 101,667
    60% 59.7% 86,772 86,371
    50% 50.2% 72,310 72,573
    40% 40.2% 57,848 58,191
    30% 30.1% 43,386 43,518
    20% 19.9% 28,924 28,715
    10% 10.1% 14,462 14,589
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,301
    Calibration 2     144,966
    Calibration 3     145,059
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,013
    100% 99.6% 145,013 144,486
    90% 89.4% 130,511 129,669
    80% 80.2% 116,010 116,239
    70% 70.4% 101,509 102,050
    60% 59.6% 87,008 86,382
    50% 50.4% 72,506 73,034
    40% 39.5% 58,005 57,267
    30% 30.2% 43,504 43,738
    20% 19.7% 29,003 28,579
    10% 10.3% 14,501 14,891
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,747
    Calibration 2     145,449
    Calibration 3     145,231
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,340
    100% 99.0% 145,340 143,835
    90% 89.0% 130,806 129,413
    80% 79.7% 116,272 115,831
    70% 70.2% 101,738 102,078
    60% 59.8% 87,204 86,853
    50% 50.3% 72,670 73,120
    40% 39.7% 58,136 57,666
    30% 29.9% 43,602 43,466
    20% 20.4% 29,068 29,602
    10% 10.0% 14,534 14,575
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,691
    Calibration 2     147,222
    Calibration 3     146,465
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,844
    100% 99.8% 146,844 146,487
    90% 89.9% 132,159 132,000
    80% 80.7% 117,475 118,474
    70% 70.3% 102,790 103,221
    60% 60.1% 88,106 88,241
    50% 49.4% 73,422 72,543
    40% 39.7% 58,737 58,359
    30% 30.3% 44,053 44,425
    20% 20.3% 29,369 29,760
    10% 10.1% 14,684 14,821
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,703
    Calibration 2     143,947
    Calibration 3     144,260
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,104
    100% 100.2% 144,104 144,321
    90% 90.2% 129,693 130,002
    80% 80.7% 115,283 116,324
    70% 69.8% 100,872 100,587
    60% 60.5% 86,462 87,169
    50% 50.3% 72,052 72,420
    40% 39.9% 57,641 57,505
    30% 29.9% 43,231 43,074
    20% 19.6% 28,821 28,210
    10% 9.8% 14,410 14,104
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-05d.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,721
    Calibration 2     144,747
    Calibration 3     144,199
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,473
    100% 99.5% 144,473 143,813
    90% 89.0% 130,025 128,545
    80% 79.9% 115,578 115,442
    70% 69.8% 101,131 100,795
    60% 60.1% 86,684 86,795
    50% 49.9% 72,236 72,026
    40% 40.1% 57,789 57,868
    30% 29.9% 43,342 43,126
    20% 19.9% 28,895 28,816
    10% 10.0% 14,447 14,454
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.