Super Micro Computer, Inc Supermicro A+ 2014TP-HTR Server 68976 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM max-jOPS
35815 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM critical-jOPS
Tested by: Super Micro Computer, Inc Test Sponsor: Super Micro Computer, Inc Test location: San Jose, California Test date: March 16, 2020
SPEC license #: 001176 Hardware Availability: Apr-2020 Software Availability: Jan-2020 Publication: Wed Apr 15 14:02:19 EDT 2020
Benchmark Results Summary
 
Overall Throughput RT curve
Overall SUT (System Under Test) Description
VendorSuper Micro Computer, Inc
Vendor URLhttps://www.supermicro.com
System SourceSingle Supplier
System DesignationServer Rack
Total Systems1
All SUT Systems IdenticalYES
Total Nodes1
All Nodes IdenticalYES
Nodes Per System1
Total Chips1
Total Cores16
Total Threads32
Total Memory Amount (GB)512
Total OS Images1
SW EnvironmentNon-virtual
 
Hardware hw_1
NameSupermicro A+ 2014TP-HTR Server
VendorSuper Micro Computer, Inc
Vendor URLhttps://www.supermicro.com
AvailableAug-2019
ModelH12SST-PS
Form Factor2U
CPU NameAMD EPYC 7F52
CPU Characteristics16 core, 3.5GHz, 256MB L3 Cache (Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.9GHz)
Number of Systems1
Nodes Per System1
Chips Per System1
Cores Per System16
Cores Per Chip16
Threads Per System32
Threads Per Core2
VersionT20190710213757 07/10/2019
CPU Frequency (MHz)3500
Primary Cache32KB(I)+32KB(D) per core
Secondary Cache512KB (I+D) per core
Tertiary Cache256MB (I+D) on chip per chip
Other CacheNone
Disk1 x Toshiba KXG50ZNV1T02 NVMe SSD 1TB
File Systemxfs
Memory Amount (GB)512
# and size of DIMM(s)8 x 64GB
Memory Details64 GB 2Rx4 PC4-3200AA-R
# and type of Network Interface Cards (NICs)1 x 1 GbE NIC
Power Supply Quantity and Rating (W)2 x 2000w
Other HardwareNone
Cabinet/Housing/EnclosureNone
Shared DescriptionNone
Shared CommentNone
Notes
  • NA: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
  • Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre variant 1) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
  • Yes: The test sponsor attests, as of date of publication, that CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre variant 2) is mitigated in the system as tested and documented.
Other Hardware network_1
NameNone
VendorNone
Vendor URLNone
VersionNone
AvailableNone
BitnessNone
NotesNone
Operating System os_1
NameRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 (Maipo)
VendorRed Hat
Vendor URLhttp://www.redhat.com/
Version3.10.0-1062.el7.x86_64
AvailableAug-2019
Bitness64
NotesNone
Java Virtual Machine jvm_1
NameOracle Java SE 13.0.2
VendorOracle
Vendor URLhttp://oracle.com/
VersionJava HotSpot 64-bit Server VM, version 13.0.2
AvailableJan-2020
Bitness64
NotesNone
Other Software other_1
NameNone
VendorNone
Vendor URLNone
VersionNone
AvailableNone
BitnessNone
NotesNone
Hardware
OS Images os_Image_1(1)
Hardware Description hw_1
Number of Systems 1
SW Environment non-virtual
Tuning

BIOS Settings:

  • NUMA nodes per socket = NPS1
  • Determinism Control = Manual
  • Determinism Slider = Power
  • cTDP Control = Manual
  • cTDP = 240
  • Package Power Limit Control = Manual
  • Package Power Limit = 240
  • Memory Clock Speed = 1467MHz
  • L1 Stream HW Prefetcher = Disable
  • L2 Stream HW Prefetcher = Disable

Notes None
OS Image os_Image_1
JVM Instances jvm_Ctr_1(1), jvm_Backend_1(1), jvm_TxInjector_1(1)
OS Image Description os_1
Tuning

  • cpupower -c all frequency-set -g performance
  • tuned-adm profile throughput-performance

  • echo 100000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
  • echo 50000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_ns
  • echo 50000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_migration_cost_ns
  • echo 990000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
  • echo 400000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns
  • echo 10000 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_expire_centisecs
  • echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs
  • echo 40 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
  • echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
  • echo 10 > /proc/sys/vm/swappiness
  • echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/numa_balancing
  • echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
  • echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled

  • Add cgroup_disable=memory,cpu,cpuacct,blkio,hugetlb,pids,cpuset,perf_event,freezer,devices,net_cls,net_prio to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT
  • ulimit -n 1024000
  • UserTasksMax=970000
  • DefaultTasksMax=970000

Notes None
JVM Instance jvm_Ctr_1
Parts of Benchmark Controller
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms2g -Xmx2g -Xmn1536m -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2 -XX:CICompilerCount=2

Tuning None
Notes

Used numactl to interleave memory

  • numactl --interleave=all

JVM Instance jvm_Backend_1
Parts of Benchmark Backend
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms124g -Xmx124g -Xmn120g -server -XX:MetaspaceSize=30m -XX:AllocatePrefetchInstr=2 -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=2m -XX:-UsePerfData -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:-UseBiasedLocking -XX:+UseLargePages -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:SurvivorRatio=120 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=95 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=24 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=25m -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages -XX:CICompilerCount=4 -XX:InlineSmallCode=11k -XX:LoopUnrollLimit=1000 -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:ObjectAlignmentInBytes=32

Tuning None
Notes

Used numactl to affinitize Backend JVM to a NUMA Node

  • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --interleave=0

JVM Instance jvm_TxInjector_1
Parts of Benchmark TxInjector
JVM Instance Description jvm_1
Command Line

-Xms2g -Xmx2g -Xmn1536m -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:ParallelGCThreads=2 -XX:CICompilerCount=2

Tuning None
Notes

Used numactl to affinitize Transaction Injector JVM to a NUMA Node

  • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --interleave=0

max-jOPS = jOPS passed before the First Failure
Pass/Fail Pass Pass Fail Fail Fail
jOPS 68125 68976 69828 70679 71531
critical-jOPS = Geomean ( jOPS @ 10000; 25000; 50000; 75000; 100000; SLAs )
Response time percentile is 99-th
SLA (us) 10000 25000 50000 75000 100000 Geomean
jOPS 26824 33494 37574 40590 43004 35815
  Percentile
  10-th 50-th 90-th 95-th 99-th 100-th
500us - / 852 - / 852 - / 852 - / 852 - / 852 - / 852
1000us 5961 / 6812 852 / 1703 - / 852 - / 852 - / 852 - / 852
5000us 60461 / 61312 55351 / 56203 24695 / 25547 18734 / 19586 11070 / 11922 1703 / 2555
10000us 61312 / 62164 58758 / 59609 43430 / 44281 37469 / 38320 26398 / 27250 8516 / 2555
25000us 62164 / 63015 60461 / 61312 55351 / 56203 50242 / 51094 34062 / 32359 8516 / 2555
50000us 63015 / 63867 60461 / 61312 57055 / 57906 54500 / 55351 38320 / 32359 8516 / 2555
75000us 63015 / 63867 60461 / 61312 57055 / 57906 54500 / 55351 41726 / 40023 8516 / 2555
100000us 63015 / 63867 60461 / 61312 57906 / 58758 57055 / 55351 43430 / 42578 8516 / 2555
200000us 63867 / 64719 62164 / 63015 58758 / 59609 57906 / 58758 53648 / 49390 39172 / 11070
500000us 66422 / 67273 65570 / 64719 62164 / 61312 60461 / 61312 59609 / 60461 57906 / 55351
1000000us 68125 / 68976 67273 / 68125 65570 / 66422 65570 / 66422 63867 / 64719 61312 / 62164
Probes jOPS / Total jOPS
Request Mix Accuracy
Note
(Actual % in the Mix - Expected % in the Mix) must be within:
'Main Tx' limit of +/-5.0% for the requests whose expected % in the mix is >= 10.0%
'Minor Tx' limit of +/-1.0% for the requests whose expected % in the mix is < 10.0%
There were no non-critical failures in Response Time curve building
Delay between status pings
IR/PR Accuracy
This section lists properties only set by user
Property Name Default Controller Group1.Backend.beJVM Group1.TxInjector.txiJVM1
specjbb.comm.connect.client.pool.size 256 256 128 96
specjbb.comm.connect.selector.runner.count 0 1
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.connect 60000 800000 600000 600000
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.read 60000 800000 600000 600000
specjbb.comm.connect.timeouts.write 60000 800000 600000 600000
specjbb.comm.connect.worker.pool.max 256 256 128 96
specjbb.controller.handshake.period 5000 20000
specjbb.controller.handshake.timeout 600000 800000
specjbb.forkjoin.workers 32 {Tier1=56, Tier2=3, Tier3=10}
specjbb.group.count 1 1
specjbb.heartbeat.period 10000 2000
specjbb.heartbeat.threshold 100000 600000
specjbb.mapreducer.pool.size 32 2
specjbb.txi.pergroup.count 1 1
View table in csv format
 
Level: COMPLIANCE
Check Agent Result
Check properties on compliance All PASSED
 
Level: CORRECTNESS
Check Agent Result
Compare SM and HQ Inventory All PASSED
High-bound (max attempted) is 85156 IR
High-bound (settled) is 73199 IR