Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,153,650
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,206
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     1,157,425
Calibration 2     1,161,457
Calibration 3     1,156,964
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,159,211
100% 99.5% 1,159,211 1,153,650
90% 90.1% 1,043,290 1,044,335
80% 79.6% 927,368 922,650
70% 69.9% 811,447 810,717
60% 60.4% 695,526 699,697
50% 49.8% 579,605 577,536
40% 39.9% 463,684 462,967
30% 30.2% 347,763 349,694
20% 20.0% 231,842 231,580
10% 10.0% 115,921 116,232
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%
    M420-07a.001 143,613
    M420-07a.002 144,815
    M420-07a.003 146,073
    M420-07a.004 144,490
    M420-07a.005 144,654
    M420-07a.006 143,650
    M420-07a.007 143,904
    M420-07a.008 142,451
    ssj_ops@100% 1,153,650
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,206
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-07a.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,354
    Calibration 2     145,192
    Calibration 3     144,408
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,800
    100% 99.2% 144,800 143,613
    90% 89.6% 130,320 129,778
    80% 79.6% 115,840 115,304
    70% 69.4% 101,360 100,551
    60% 60.4% 86,880 87,459
    50% 50.2% 72,400 72,747
    40% 39.9% 57,920 57,732
    30% 30.4% 43,440 44,053
    20% 20.1% 28,960 29,153
    10% 10.1% 14,480 14,575
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,526
    Calibration 2     144,945
    Calibration 3     145,095
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,020
    100% 99.9% 145,020 144,815
    90% 90.2% 130,518 130,840
    80% 79.7% 116,016 115,517
    70% 70.3% 101,514 101,942
    60% 60.9% 87,012 88,308
    50% 49.6% 72,510 71,860
    40% 40.3% 58,008 58,406
    30% 30.7% 43,506 44,538
    20% 19.9% 29,004 28,847
    10% 10.0% 14,502 14,508
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,992
    Calibration 2     146,654
    Calibration 3     147,360
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,007
    100% 99.4% 147,007 146,073
    90% 89.5% 132,306 131,516
    80% 80.0% 117,605 117,536
    70% 69.4% 102,905 101,981
    60% 59.4% 88,204 87,367
    50% 50.0% 73,503 73,457
    40% 39.7% 58,803 58,393
    30% 30.2% 44,102 44,436
    20% 20.4% 29,401 29,997
    10% 10.0% 14,701 14,716
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,761
    Calibration 2     145,129
    Calibration 3     144,896
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,012
    100% 99.6% 145,012 144,490
    90% 90.6% 130,511 131,317
    80% 78.5% 116,010 113,886
    70% 70.3% 101,509 101,897
    60% 60.2% 87,007 87,282
    50% 50.0% 72,506 72,440
    40% 39.7% 58,005 57,547
    30% 29.7% 43,504 43,004
    20% 19.6% 29,002 28,386
    10% 10.2% 14,501 14,858
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,022
    Calibration 2     145,652
    Calibration 3     144,995
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,323
    100% 99.5% 145,323 144,654
    90% 90.5% 130,791 131,451
    80% 80.4% 116,259 116,861
    70% 69.5% 101,726 100,992
    60% 60.6% 87,194 88,097
    50% 49.8% 72,662 72,303
    40% 39.7% 58,129 57,670
    30% 29.9% 43,597 43,451
    20% 19.9% 29,065 28,961
    10% 9.9% 14,532 14,366
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,242
    Calibration 2     146,601
    Calibration 3     144,126
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,364
    100% 98.8% 145,364 143,650
    90% 90.1% 130,827 131,012
    80% 79.5% 116,291 115,556
    70% 70.4% 101,755 102,336
    60% 60.5% 87,218 87,994
    50% 49.6% 72,682 72,112
    40% 40.4% 58,145 58,739
    30% 30.1% 43,609 43,811
    20% 19.7% 29,073 28,660
    10% 10.2% 14,536 14,762
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     142,447
    Calibration 2     143,946
    Calibration 3     143,100
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,523
    100% 100.3% 143,523 143,904
    90% 90.5% 129,171 129,898
    80% 79.2% 114,818 113,618
    70% 70.7% 100,466 101,505
    60% 60.1% 86,114 86,310
    50% 50.0% 71,761 71,702
    40% 39.6% 57,409 56,895
    30% 29.9% 43,057 42,979
    20% 20.0% 28,705 28,704
    10% 10.0% 14,352 14,330
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07a.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,080
    Calibration 2     143,338
    Calibration 3     142,984
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,161
    100% 99.5% 143,161 142,451
    90% 89.8% 128,845 128,522
    80% 79.9% 114,529 114,372
    70% 69.5% 100,213 99,513
    60% 60.7% 85,897 86,880
    50% 49.5% 71,581 70,914
    40% 40.2% 57,264 57,586
    30% 30.3% 42,948 43,421
    20% 20.2% 28,632 28,872
    10% 9.9% 14,316 14,116
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.