Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,156,963
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,620
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     1,156,141
Calibration 2     1,161,574
Calibration 3     1,158,894
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,160,234
100% 99.7% 1,160,234 1,156,963
90% 89.9% 1,044,211 1,043,244
80% 80.1% 928,187 929,800
70% 69.9% 812,164 810,578
60% 60.0% 696,141 695,978
50% 50.0% 580,117 580,413
40% 40.0% 464,094 464,369
30% 29.9% 348,070 346,776
20% 20.0% 232,047 232,008
10% 10.0% 116,023 115,961
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%
    M420-03c.001 144,396
    M420-03c.002 144,564
    M420-03c.003 144,108
    M420-03c.004 144,695
    M420-03c.005 144,855
    M420-03c.006 143,979
    M420-03c.007 145,136
    M420-03c.008 145,230
    ssj_ops@100% 1,156,963
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,620
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-03c.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,364
    Calibration 2     144,927
    Calibration 3     144,953
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,940
    100% 99.6% 144,940 144,396
    90% 89.7% 130,446 130,060
    80% 80.7% 115,952 116,984
    70% 69.4% 101,458 100,578
    60% 59.9% 86,964 86,751
    50% 49.5% 72,470 71,721
    40% 40.0% 57,976 57,947
    30% 29.8% 43,482 43,133
    20% 19.8% 28,988 28,754
    10% 10.1% 14,494 14,570
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,619
    Calibration 2     144,309
    Calibration 3     143,880
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,094
    100% 100.3% 144,094 144,564
    90% 89.9% 129,685 129,584
    80% 79.8% 115,276 115,011
    70% 69.8% 100,866 100,575
    60% 59.6% 86,457 85,871
    50% 50.2% 72,047 72,343
    40% 40.5% 57,638 58,339
    30% 29.8% 43,228 42,926
    20% 19.8% 28,819 28,494
    10% 10.0% 14,409 14,439
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,384
    Calibration 2     145,324
    Calibration 3     144,676
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,000
    100% 99.4% 145,000 144,108
    90% 90.0% 130,500 130,480
    80% 79.7% 116,000 115,529
    70% 69.7% 101,500 101,138
    60% 60.4% 87,000 87,522
    50% 50.2% 72,500 72,797
    40% 40.6% 58,000 58,862
    30% 30.0% 43,500 43,519
    20% 19.7% 29,000 28,589
    10% 10.2% 14,500 14,798
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,347
    Calibration 2     145,882
    Calibration 3     145,169
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,525
    100% 99.4% 145,525 144,695
    90% 90.5% 130,973 131,751
    80% 80.3% 116,420 116,799
    70% 69.9% 101,868 101,790
    60% 60.2% 87,315 87,637
    50% 49.7% 72,763 72,330
    40% 39.9% 58,210 58,079
    30% 29.7% 43,658 43,280
    20% 20.4% 29,105 29,748
    10% 10.1% 14,553 14,637
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,494
    Calibration 2     145,604
    Calibration 3     145,685
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,644
    100% 99.5% 145,644 144,855
    90% 90.2% 131,080 131,326
    80% 80.1% 116,516 116,594
    70% 70.8% 101,951 103,103
    60% 60.0% 87,387 87,323
    50% 49.5% 72,822 72,114
    40% 40.3% 58,258 58,681
    30% 30.2% 43,693 43,925
    20% 19.9% 29,129 29,021
    10% 9.9% 14,564 14,471
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,042
    Calibration 2     144,637
    Calibration 3     143,425
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,031
    100% 100.0% 144,031 143,979
    90% 89.4% 129,628 128,753
    80% 80.4% 115,225 115,735
    70% 69.8% 100,822 100,500
    60% 59.8% 86,418 86,110
    50% 50.5% 72,015 72,731
    40% 40.2% 57,612 57,874
    30% 29.8% 43,209 42,954
    20% 20.1% 28,806 28,896
    10% 9.7% 14,403 14,017
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,904
    Calibration 2     145,238
    Calibration 3     145,098
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,168
    100% 100.0% 145,168 145,136
    90% 89.5% 130,651 129,938
    80% 80.2% 116,134 116,367
    70% 70.0% 101,618 101,654
    60% 60.4% 87,101 87,636
    50% 50.2% 72,584 72,886
    40% 40.1% 58,067 58,174
    30% 29.6% 43,550 43,012
    20% 20.0% 29,034 29,059
    10% 9.8% 14,517 14,287
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-03c.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,986
    Calibration 2     145,653
    Calibration 3     146,009
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,831
    100% 99.6% 145,831 145,230
    90% 90.1% 131,248 131,351
    80% 80.1% 116,665 116,782
    70% 69.4% 102,082 101,241
    60% 59.7% 87,498 87,126
    50% 50.4% 72,915 73,491
    40% 38.7% 58,332 56,414
    30% 30.2% 43,749 44,027
    20% 20.2% 29,166 29,448
    10% 10.1% 14,583 14,742
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.