Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,153,911
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,239
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     1,152,161
Calibration 2     1,156,710
Calibration 3     1,156,423
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,156,566
100% 99.8% 1,156,566 1,153,911
90% 90.2% 1,040,910 1,043,423
80% 79.8% 925,253 923,171
70% 70.3% 809,596 813,131
60% 60.0% 693,940 694,300
50% 50.0% 578,283 577,951
40% 40.1% 462,627 463,810
30% 29.9% 346,970 345,296
20% 20.0% 231,313 231,876
10% 10.0% 115,657 115,782
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%
    M420-06c.001 144,324
    M420-06c.002 144,074
    M420-06c.003 143,952
    M420-06c.004 143,985
    M420-06c.005 144,329
    M420-06c.006 143,267
    M420-06c.007 145,246
    M420-06c.008 144,733
    ssj_ops@100% 1,153,911
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,239
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-06c.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,434
    Calibration 2     144,502
    Calibration 3     144,271
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,386
    100% 100.0% 144,386 144,324
    90% 90.1% 129,948 130,075
    80% 80.2% 115,509 115,806
    70% 70.8% 101,070 102,192
    60% 59.7% 86,632 86,268
    50% 50.0% 72,193 72,196
    40% 40.4% 57,755 58,361
    30% 30.1% 43,316 43,494
    20% 20.3% 28,877 29,362
    10% 10.2% 14,439 14,725
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,319
    Calibration 2     144,157
    Calibration 3     144,173
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,165
    100% 99.9% 144,165 144,074
    90% 88.7% 129,748 127,893
    80% 80.3% 115,332 115,824
    70% 69.4% 100,915 100,027
    60% 60.0% 86,499 86,493
    50% 49.4% 72,082 71,265
    40% 39.5% 57,666 56,994
    30% 29.4% 43,249 42,317
    20% 20.0% 28,833 28,775
    10% 10.2% 14,416 14,756
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,027
    Calibration 2     144,363
    Calibration 3     144,730
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,547
    100% 99.6% 144,547 143,952
    90% 90.5% 130,092 130,792
    80% 80.1% 115,637 115,840
    70% 70.3% 101,183 101,607
    60% 60.0% 86,728 86,656
    50% 50.4% 72,273 72,805
    40% 40.6% 57,819 58,650
    30% 30.3% 43,364 43,731
    20% 20.1% 28,909 29,126
    10% 9.6% 14,455 13,929
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,166
    Calibration 2     144,335
    Calibration 3     144,080
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,208
    100% 99.8% 144,208 143,985
    90% 90.1% 129,787 129,995
    80% 78.9% 115,366 113,710
    70% 70.0% 100,945 100,904
    60% 60.2% 86,525 86,864
    50% 49.6% 72,104 71,462
    40% 41.1% 57,683 59,208
    30% 29.5% 43,262 42,569
    20% 20.0% 28,842 28,870
    10% 10.0% 14,421 14,371
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,066
    Calibration 2     145,159
    Calibration 3     144,724
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,942
    100% 99.6% 144,942 144,329
    90% 91.2% 130,448 132,165
    80% 80.0% 115,953 115,967
    70% 70.7% 101,459 102,422
    60% 60.3% 86,965 87,376
    50% 50.5% 72,471 73,145
    40% 39.8% 57,977 57,639
    30% 29.7% 43,483 43,018
    20% 20.3% 28,988 29,420
    10% 10.2% 14,494 14,827
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,582
    Calibration 2     143,909
    Calibration 3     144,377
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,143
    100% 99.4% 144,143 143,267
    90% 90.4% 129,729 130,373
    80% 80.1% 115,314 115,427
    70% 70.6% 100,900 101,794
    60% 60.4% 86,486 86,991
    50% 49.6% 72,072 71,497
    40% 39.8% 57,657 57,397
    30% 30.1% 43,243 43,368
    20% 20.0% 28,829 28,877
    10% 9.9% 14,414 14,212
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,474
    Calibration 2     145,317
    Calibration 3     145,536
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,427
    100% 99.9% 145,427 145,246
    90% 90.6% 130,884 131,750
    80% 78.9% 116,341 114,779
    70% 70.3% 101,799 102,280
    60% 60.2% 87,256 87,482
    50% 50.0% 72,713 72,758
    40% 39.8% 58,171 57,870
    30% 29.9% 43,628 43,449
    20% 19.8% 29,085 28,864
    10% 10.1% 14,543 14,712
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06c.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,092
    Calibration 2     144,968
    Calibration 3     144,531
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,749
    100% 100.0% 144,749 144,733
    90% 90.1% 130,274 130,381
    80% 80.0% 115,800 115,817
    70% 70.4% 101,325 101,905
    60% 59.5% 86,850 86,169
    50% 50.3% 72,375 72,824
    40% 39.9% 57,900 57,691
    30% 29.9% 43,425 43,351
    20% 19.7% 28,950 28,582
    10% 9.8% 14,475 14,250
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.