IBM Corporation IBM Cloud AMD EPYC 7642 Bare Metal Server 229976 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM max-jOPS
151131 SPECjbb2015-MultiJVM critical-jOPS
Tested by: IBM Corporation Test Sponsor: IBM Corporation Test location: Austin, TX Test date: Mar 25, 2020
SPEC license #: 11 Hardware Availability: Apr-2020 Software Availability: Jan-2020 Publication: Tue May 19 11:13:37 EDT 2020
Benchmark Results Summary
 
Overall Throughput RT curve
Overall SUT (System Under Test) Description
VendorIBM Corporation
Vendor URLhttps://cloud.ibm.com
System SourceSingle Supplier
System DesignationServer Rack
Total Systems1
All SUT Systems IdenticalYES
Total Nodes1
All Nodes IdenticalYES
Nodes Per System1
Total Chips2
Total Cores96
Total Threads192
Total Memory Amount (GB)512
Total OS Images1
SW EnvironmentNon-virtual
 
Hardware hw_1
NameIBM Cloud AMD EPYC 7642 Bare Metal Server
VendorIBM Corporation
Vendor URLhttps://cloud.ibm.com
AvailableApr-2020
ModelNone
Form Factor2U
CPU NameAMD EPYC 7642
CPU Characteristics48 Core, 2.3 GHz, 256 MB L3 cache (Turbo Boost Technology up to 3.3 GHz)
Number of Systems1
Nodes Per System1
Chips Per System2
Cores Per System96
Cores Per Chip48
Threads Per System192
Threads Per Core2
Version1.0 03/25/2020
CPU Frequency (MHz)3300
Primary Cache32KB(I)+32KB(D) per core
Secondary Cache512KB (I+D) per core
Tertiary Cache256MB (I+D) on chip per chip
Other CacheNone
Disk1x960 GB SSD
File Systemext4
Memory Amount (GB)512
# and size of DIMM(s)16 x 32GB
Memory Details32 GB 2Rx4 PC4-2933-R
# and type of Network Interface Cards (NICs)4 x 10 GbE
Power Supply Quantity and Rating (W)2 x 1600W
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
    NameUbuntu 18.04.4 LTS
    VendorUbuntu
    Vendor URLhttp://ubuntu.com/
    Version4.15.0-91-generic
    AvailableFeb-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:

    • Set Nodes per Socket to 1 [NPS1]
    • SMT Control = Auto [Auto means SMT Enabled]

    Notes None
    OS Image os_Image_1
    JVM Instances jvm_Ctr_1(1), jvm_Backend_1(4), jvm_TxInjector_1(4)
    OS Image Description os_1
    Tuning

    • cpupower -c all frequency-set -g performance
    • tuned-adm profile throughput-performance
    • echo 950000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_rt_runtime_us
    • echo 100000000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_latency_ns
    • echo 80000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_migration_cost_ns
    • echo 600000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns
    • echo 100000 > /proc/sys/kernel/sched_wakeup_granularity_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/enabled
    • echo always > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
    • 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=4

    Tuning None
    Notes

    Used numactl to interleave memory on all Nodes in Driver system

    • numactl --interleave=all

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

    -Xms86g -Xmx86g -Xmn84g -server -XX:MetaspaceSize=256m -XX:AllocatePrefetchInstr=2 -XX:LargePageSizeInBytes=2m -XX:-UsePerfData -XX:-UseAdaptiveSizePolicy -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:-UseBiasedLocking -XX:+UseLargePages -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:SurvivorRatio=50 -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=95 -XX:ParallelGCThreads=48 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=15 -XX:InitialCodeCacheSize=25m -XX:InlineSmallCode=10k -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=200 -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:ObjectAlignmentInBytes=16 -XX:+BindGCTaskThreadsToCPUs -XX:+UseTransparentHugePages

    Tuning

    Used numactl to affinitize two Backend JVM per NUMA node

    • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=1 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=1 --localalloc

    Notes "Notes here"
    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=4

    Tuning None
    Notes

    Used numactl to affinitize two Transaction Injector JVM per NUMA node

    • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=0 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=1 --localalloc
    • numactl --cpunodebind=1 --localalloc

    max-jOPS = jOPS passed before the First Failure
    Pass/Fail Pass Pass Fail Fail Fail
    jOPS 227137 229976 232815 235654 238494
    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 123505 138174 151897 166093 183129 151131
      Percentile
      10-th 50-th 90-th 95-th 99-th 100-th
    500us 2839 / 5678 - / 2839 - / 2839 - / 2839 - / 2839 - / 2839
    1000us 99372 / 102212 8518 / 11357 2839 / 5678 2839 / 5678 - / 2839 - / 2839
    5000us 212941 / 215780 201584 / 204423 170353 / 167513 150478 / 153317 93694 / 96533 - / 2839
    10000us 215780 / 218619 207262 / 210102 187388 / 190227 176031 / 178870 122086 / 124925 14196 / 2839
    25000us 215780 / 218619 210102 / 212941 195905 / 198745 184549 / 187388 141960 / 136282 14196 / 2839
    50000us 218619 / 221458 212941 / 215780 201584 / 204423 187388 / 190227 150478 / 153317 14196 / 2839
    75000us 218619 / 221458 212941 / 215780 201584 / 204423 198745 / 201584 164674 / 167513 28392 / 19874
    100000us 224298 / 221458 212941 / 215780 207262 / 210102 201584 / 204423 184549 / 181709 110729 / 36910
    200000us 224298 / 227137 215780 / 218619 210102 / 212941 207262 / 210102 201584 / 198745 156157 / 158996
    500000us 227137 / 229976 224298 / 227137 215780 / 218619 215780 / 218619 212941 / 215780 207262 / 204423
    1000000us 229976 / - 227137 / 229976 224298 / 227137 224298 / 227137 221458 / 224298 212941 / 215780
    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
    specjbb.controller.handshake.period 5000 20000
    specjbb.controller.handshake.timeout 600000 800000
    specjbb.forkjoin.workers 192 {Tier1=64, Tier2=1, Tier3=12}
    specjbb.group.count 1 4
    specjbb.heartbeat.period 10000 2000
    specjbb.heartbeat.threshold 100000 900000
    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 283921 IR
    High-bound (settled) is 247317 IR