Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,155,395
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,424
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     1,156,560
Calibration 2     1,156,637
Calibration 3     1,156,801
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,156,719
100% 99.9% 1,156,719 1,155,395
90% 89.8% 1,041,047 1,038,340
80% 80.0% 925,375 925,479
70% 70.3% 809,703 812,899
60% 59.9% 694,031 693,396
50% 50.0% 578,359 578,254
40% 40.3% 462,688 465,914
30% 30.1% 347,016 347,890
20% 20.2% 231,344 234,093
10% 9.9% 115,672 115,051
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%
    M420-08c.001 145,572
    M420-08c.002 146,130
    M420-08c.003 141,981
    M420-08c.004 144,332
    M420-08c.005 145,829
    M420-08c.006 143,799
    M420-08c.007 143,802
    M420-08c.008 143,949
    ssj_ops@100% 1,155,395
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,424
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-08c.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,599
    Calibration 2     145,199
    Calibration 3     145,567
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,383
    100% 100.1% 145,383 145,572
    90% 89.6% 130,845 130,202
    80% 80.0% 116,306 116,262
    70% 70.2% 101,768 101,995
    60% 59.4% 87,230 86,387
    50% 50.0% 72,692 72,625
    40% 39.7% 58,153 57,760
    30% 29.9% 43,615 43,465
    20% 19.9% 29,077 28,960
    10% 9.9% 14,538 14,321
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,022
    Calibration 2     145,306
    Calibration 3     146,363
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,834
    100% 100.2% 145,834 146,130
    90% 90.1% 131,251 131,396
    80% 79.4% 116,668 115,764
    70% 70.9% 102,084 103,467
    60% 60.2% 87,501 87,771
    50% 50.7% 72,917 73,952
    40% 40.6% 58,334 59,226
    30% 30.2% 43,750 44,008
    20% 20.2% 29,167 29,503
    10% 9.9% 14,583 14,375
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,988
    Calibration 2     143,119
    Calibration 3     142,348
    ssj_ops@calibrated=142,733
    100% 99.5% 142,733 141,981
    90% 89.5% 128,460 127,702
    80% 79.8% 114,187 113,968
    70% 70.0% 99,913 99,960
    60% 59.6% 85,640 85,052
    50% 50.0% 71,367 71,373
    40% 40.6% 57,093 58,003
    30% 30.0% 42,820 42,886
    20% 20.4% 28,547 29,108
    10% 10.0% 14,273 14,252
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,201
    Calibration 2     144,444
    Calibration 3     144,045
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,245
    100% 100.1% 144,245 144,332
    90% 89.0% 129,820 128,318
    80% 80.0% 115,396 115,421
    70% 71.1% 100,971 102,600
    60% 59.7% 86,547 86,111
    50% 50.1% 72,122 72,245
    40% 40.5% 57,698 58,378
    30% 30.2% 43,273 43,491
    20% 19.8% 28,849 28,545
    10% 10.0% 14,424 14,408
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,092
    Calibration 2     146,134
    Calibration 3     146,268
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,201
    100% 99.7% 146,201 145,829
    90% 90.3% 131,581 132,069
    80% 79.8% 116,961 116,618
    70% 69.9% 102,341 102,266
    60% 60.3% 87,721 88,170
    50% 49.6% 73,100 72,512
    40% 40.7% 58,480 59,547
    30% 30.0% 43,860 43,867
    20% 20.3% 29,240 29,681
    10% 9.9% 14,620 14,458
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,501
    Calibration 2     142,549
    Calibration 3     143,771
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,160
    100% 100.4% 143,160 143,799
    90% 89.3% 128,844 127,869
    80% 80.8% 114,528 115,633
    70% 70.2% 100,212 100,462
    60% 59.7% 85,896 85,535
    50% 49.7% 71,580 71,187
    40% 40.1% 57,264 57,358
    30% 30.1% 42,948 43,159
    20% 20.6% 28,632 29,485
    10% 10.0% 14,316 14,350
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,837
    Calibration 2     144,971
    Calibration 3     144,072
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,521
    100% 99.5% 144,521 143,802
    90% 90.2% 130,069 130,414
    80% 79.6% 115,617 115,100
    70% 69.7% 101,165 100,778
    60% 60.3% 86,713 87,200
    50% 50.1% 72,261 72,355
    40% 39.8% 57,809 57,456
    30% 30.2% 43,356 43,635
    20% 20.4% 28,904 29,475
    10% 10.0% 14,452 14,450
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-08c.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,320
    Calibration 2     144,915
    Calibration 3     144,366
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,641
    100% 99.5% 144,641 143,949
    90% 90.1% 130,177 130,371
    80% 80.7% 115,713 116,713
    70% 70.1% 101,248 101,371
    60% 60.3% 86,784 87,170
    50% 49.8% 72,320 72,005
    40% 40.2% 57,856 58,188
    30% 30.0% 43,392 43,379
    20% 20.3% 28,928 29,337
    10% 10.0% 14,464 14,437
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.