SPEC Seal of Reviewal SPECjEnterprise®2010 Result
Copyright © 2009-2011 Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
WebSphere Application Server V7 on IBM Power 730 Express and DB2 9.7 on IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express
4,062.38 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS
Submitter:
IBM Corporation
SPEC license # 11 Test date:
Jan-2011
Software Products
WebSphere Application Server V7 with Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32)
IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64)
IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.65)
DB2 9.7 Workgroup Server Edition Fix Pack 3a
Software Configurations
JEE Application Server
Emulator Software Config
Database Software Config
Driver Config
Hardware Systems
JEE AppServer HW
Database Server HW
Load Driver HW
Emulator HW

System Configuration Diagram

Benchmark
Modifications
Configuration
Bill of Materials
Other Info
General Notes
Full Disclosure Archive

SUT Configuration
JEE Server Nodes: 1   DB Server Nodes: 1
JEE Server CPUs: 16 cores, 2 chips   DB Server CPUs: 8 cores, 1 chips
JEE Instances: 8   DB Instances: 1
Other SUT Components:
   1 x 3Com Switch 4200G 48-Port Switch

Benchmark Settings
Dealer Injection Rate: 2,550   Ramp Up Time: 1,200 seconds
DB Load Injection Rate: 3,000   Steady State Time: 3,600 seconds
# of Dealer Agents: 25,500   Ramp Down Time: 300 seconds
# of Manufacturing Agents: 7,650  

Detailed Results
Dealer Transaction Mix Count Tx. Mix Failure Count
Purchase 2,298,836 24.99% 1
Manage 2,302,733 25.03% 4
Browse 4,599,013 49.99% 0
Total # Dealer Transactions 9,200,582
Manufacturing Transaction Mix Count Tx. Mix Failure Count
CreateVehicleEJB 2,711,678 49.99% 297
CreateVehicleWS 2,712,290 50.01% 352
Total # Manufacturing Transactions 5,423,968
Response Times Average Standard Deviation Maximum 90th% Reqd
Purchase 0.326 0.85 15.805 0.950 2.000
Manage 0.156 0.34 9.201 0.430 2.000
Browse 0.400 0.98 11.849 1.300 2.000
CreateVehicleEJB 0.042 0.10 3.989 0.075 5.000
CreateVehicleWS 0.056 0.10 5.038 0.075 5.000
Reproducibility Run (SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS) 4,070.55

WebSphere Application Server V7 with Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0
Vendor: IBM Corporation Availability: Oct-2010
CTS Version: 5.0 Date Passed CTS: Sep-2008
OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1
EJB Protocol: RMI/IIOP

IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32)
Vendor: IBM Corporation Availability: Oct-2010
OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1

IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64)
Vendor: IBM Corporation Availability: Oct-2010
OS Name: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3

IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.65)
Vendor: IBM Corporation Availability: Oct-2010
OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1

DB2 9.7 Workgroup Server Edition Fix Pack 3a
Vendor: IBM Corporation Availability: Oct-2010
OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1

JEE Application Server
JEE Product: WebSphere Application Server V7 with Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0
JVM Product: IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 AIX ppc-32)
JDBC Product: IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers (3.61.65)
Hardware: JEE AppServer HW
# of Instances: 8
Interfaces:
Web Interface for the Order Domain
Web Services Interface for the Supplier Domain
EJB Interface for the Manufacturing Domain
Web Services Interface for the Manufacturing Domain
Notes / Tuning Information
JVM Parameters:
-Xms2304m -Xmx2304m -Xss128k -Xgcpolicy:gencon -Xnoloa -Xmo500m -Xmn1804m -Xtrace:none -Xlp -Xaggressive -XtlhPrefetch -Xcodecache32m
-Xgcthreads4 -Xdisableexplicitgc -Dcom.ibm.CORBA.FragmentSize=10000 -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0
Refer to files appservers/node.resources.xml, and appservers/server.xml
for all server configuration and resource configuration
information

Emulator Software Config
JEE Product: WebSphere Application Server V7 with Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0
JVM Product: IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64)
Hardware: Emulator HW
# of Instances: 4
Notes / Tuning Information
JVM Parameters:
-Xms2048m -Xmx2048m -Xss128k -Xgcpolicy:gencon -Xnoloa -Xmo512m -Xmn1536m -Xtrace:none -DdisableWSAddressCaching=true
-Xgcthreads8 -Xdisableexplicitgc -Djavax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory=org.apache.xalan.processor.TransformerFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.SAXParserFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserFactoryImpl
-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderFactoryImpl
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0
Refer to files emulator/server.xml
for all server configuration and resource configuration
information

Database Software Config
DB Product: DB2 9.7 Workgroup Server Edition Fix Pack 3a
Hardware: Database Server HW
# of Instances: 1
Character Set: UTF-8
Notes / Tuning Information
DB2_RESOURCE_POLICY=/home/db2inst1/scripts/loggerpri.cfg
DB2_USE_ALTERNATE_PAGE_CLEANING=ON
DB2_MINIMIZE_LISTPREFETCH=YES
DB2_KEEPTABLELOCK=CONNECTION
DB2_APM_PERFORMANCE=ON
DB2COMM=TCPIP
DFT_MON_BUFPOOL on
DFT_MON_LOCK off
DFT_MON_SORT off
DFT_MON_STMT off
DFT_MON_TIMESTAMP off
DFT_MON_UOW off
DFT_MON_TABLE off
CPUSPEED -1
SVCENAME 60004
MAX_COORDAGENTS 1080 automatic
LOGBUFSZ 4096
LOGPRIMARY 52
SOFTMAX 1000
CHNGPGS_THRESH 99
LOGFILSIZ 65535
LOGSECOND 0
NEWLOGPATH /dev/rloglv
AUTO_MAINT off
AUTO_RUNSTATS off
AUTO_TBL_MAINT off
MAXLOCKS 100
LOCKLIST 36000
MINCOMMIT 1
MON_REQ_METRICS none
MON_ACT_METRICS none
MON_OBJ_METRICS none
AUTO_STMT_STATS off
IBMDEFAULTBP immediate size 14000000
M_WORKORDER volatile
O_ITEM volatile
S_SUPPLIER volatile

Driver Config
JVM Product: IBM J9 VM (build 2.4, JRE 1.6.0 IBM J9 2.4 Linux amd64-64)
Hardware: Load Driver HW
# of Instances: 4
Notes / Tuning Information
-Xms2048M -Xmx2048M -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Dcom.ibm.websphere.naming.hostname.normalizer=...none...
-Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=0 -Dnetworkaddress.cache.ttl=0 -Dcom.ibm.CORBA.FragmentSize=10000
-Dcom.ibm.CORBA.ConnectionMultiplicity=28 -DdisableWSAddressCaching=true

JEE AppServer HW (SUT hardware)
Hardware Vendor: IBM Corporation OS Vendor: IBM Corporation
Model Name: IBM Power 730 Express OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1
Processor: POWER7 (Intelligent Energy Optimization up to 3.86 GHz) Filesystem: AIX/JFS2
MHz: 3556 Disks: 1x146.8GB 15K RPM
# of CPUs: 16 cores, 2 chips, 8 cores/chip (32 HW threads/chip) Network Interface: (9) 1000BaseT Ethernet
Memory (MB): 131072 Other Hardware:
DIMM[0] Count: 16 DIMM[0] Size: 8192
L1 Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core # of Systems: 1
L2 Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per core H/W Available: Sep-2010
Other Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core OS Available: Sep-2010
Notes / Tuning Information
vmo -o lgpg_regions=1536 -o lgpg_size=16777216 -o v_pinshm=1
dscrctl -n -s 1
MEMORY_AFFINITY=MCM
EXTSHM=OFF
SPINLOOPTIME=4000
AIXTHREAD_SCOPE=S
LDR_CNTRL=DATAPSIZE=64k@STACKPSIZE=64k@TEXTPSIZE=64k@MAXDATA=0xB0000000@DSA
ulimit -s unlimited; ulimit -d unlimited; ulimit -m unlimited; ulimit -f unlimited; ulimit -n unlimited
ctctrl -P memtraceoff
errctrl -P errcheckoff
raso -r -o mtrc_enabled=0
skeyctl -u 0
skeyctl -k off
no -r -o net_malloc_police=0
Network Tuning:
  rxbuf_pool_sz=4096
  rxdesc_que_sz=2048
  intr_rate=10000
  Network interrupt bound to a core corresponding to the server instance
Server instances were started using execrset, binding 4 instances per chip.
Intelligent Energy Optimization enabled, up to 3.86 GHz
IBM Systems Director is required to enable the Intelligent Energy Optimization

Database Server HW (SUT hardware)
Hardware Vendor: IBM Corporation OS Vendor: IBM Corporation
Model Name: IBM BladeCenter PS701 Express OS Name: IBM AIX V7.1
Processor: POWER7 Filesystem: AIX/JFS2
MHz: 3000 Disks: 1x300GB 10K RPM
# of CPUs: 8 cores, 1 chips, 8 cores/chip Network Interface: (4) 1000BaseT Ethernet
Memory (MB): 131072 Other Hardware: 2xDS3524 Disk Systems, 48x146.8GB 15K E-DDM Disks
DIMM[0] Count: 16 DIMM[0] Size: 8192
L1 Cache: 32 KB I + 32 KB D on chip per core # of Systems: 1
L2 Cache: 256 KB I+D on chip per core H/W Available: June-2010
Other Cache: 4 MB I+D on chip per core OS Available: Sep-2010
Notes / Tuning Information
ulimit -s unlimited; ulimit -d unlimited; ulimit -m unlimited; ulimit -f unlimited; ulimit -n unlimited
dscrctl -n -s 1
ctctrl -P memtraceoff
errctrl -P errcheckoff
raso -r -o mtrc_enabled=0
skeyctl -u 0
skeyctl -k off
no -r -o net_malloc_police=0

Load Driver HW (non-SUT hardware)
Hardware Vendor: IBM Corporation OS Vendor: Novell
Model Name: IBM BladeCenter HS21 OS Name: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
Processor: Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) X5470 Filesystem: Reiser
MHz: 3333 Disks: 1 x 73.4GB SAS 15K rpm
# of CPUs: 8 cores, 2 chips, 4 cores/chip Network Interface: (4) 1000BaseT
Memory (MB): 16384 Other Hardware:
L1 Cache: 32KB(I)+32KB(D) # of Systems: 4
L2 Cache: 2x6MB per chip H/W Available: Nov-2008
Other Cache: OS Available: May-2009
Notes / Tuning Information
fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 30000000
net.core.wmem_max = 30000000
net.core.somaxconn = 300000
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
ulimit -n 1048576

Emulator HW (non-SUT hardware)
Hardware Vendor: IBM Corporation OS Vendor: Novell
Model Name: IBM BladeCenter HS21 OS Name: Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP3
Processor: Quad Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) X5470 Filesystem: Reiser
MHz: 3333 Disks: 1 x 73.4GB SAS 15K rpm
# of CPUs: 8 cores, 2 chips, 4 cores/chip Network Interface: (4) 1000BaseT
Memory (MB): 16384 Other Hardware:
L1 Cache: 32KB(I)+32KB(D) # of Systems: 2
L2 Cache: 2x6MB per chip H/W Available: Nov-2008
Other Cache: OS Available: May-2009
Notes / Tuning Information
fs.file-max = 1048576
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmall = 4294967296
kernel.shmmax = 68719476736
net.core.netdev_max_backlog = 400000
net.core.optmem_max = 30000000
net.core.rmem_default = 30000000
net.core.wmem_default = 30000000
net.core.rmem_max = 30000000
net.core.wmem_max = 30000000
net.core.somaxconn = 300000
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.ipv4.tcp_fin_timeout = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog = 30000
net.ipv4.tcp_max_tw_buckets = 2000000
net.ipv4.tcp_mem  = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 30000000 30000000 30000000
net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_announce = 2
net.ipv4.conf.all.arp_ignore = 1
ulimit -n 1048576

Benchmark Modifications
Schema Modifications:
  No modifications to the schema where made.
Load Program Modifications:
  No modifications to the load programs were made.

Benchmark Configuration Information
Isolation Requirement Info:
  The benchmark meets the isolation level requirements by version column
    checking on entities against the database.
  The ItemEnt bean was cached for 20 minute intervals using
    the WebSphere JPA Object Cache mechanism.
Durability Requirement Info:
  To ensure database durability, RAID10 was used for the
    database logs maintained on the external storage.
    A total of 24 x 146GB disks were used for the log.
Storage Requirement Info:
  Over the course of a 85 minute run at an injection rate of
    2550, the database storage for database system increased by
    1.7 GB.  Given a linear scale, a 24 hour run at the same
    injection rate would increase storage for database system
    by 28.8 GB.  One RAID10 disk arrays were used to create the
    filesystem space for the database.  The array contained
    20 x 146.8GB disks providing 2936 GB of storage.

Bill of Materials
Supplier  Description                                         Product #           Qty
--------  -------------------------------------------         ----------------    ---
IBM       IBM Power 730	                                      8231-E2B             1
-            2x8-core POWER7 Processor
-            (3.55GHz 4MB L3 Cache per core)
-            128GB RAM (16x8GB DIMMS), 1x146.8GB 15k SAS HDD
-            3 Year Onsite Repair 24x7 4 Hour Response     	                     "	
IBM       AIX Standard Edition V7.1 per processor             5765-G98-0008        16
IBM       AIX 3 year support per processor                    5773-SM3-1253        16
...
IBM       BladeCenter H Chassis                               7989-BCH              1
IBM       BladeCenter PS701 Express                           8406-71Y              1
-            8-core POWER7 Processor
-            (3.0GHz 4MB L3 Cache per core)
-            128GB RAM (16x8GB DIMMS), 1x146.8GB 15k SAS HDD
-            3 Year Onsite Repair 24x7 4 Hour Response     	
IBM       DS3524 Express Dual Controller, 4 GB Cache         	1746-E4A1           1
IBM       6Gbps FC, 146.8 GB/15K HDD	                        5205                48
IBM       AIX Standard Edition V7.1 per processor             5765-G98-0008         8
IBM       AIX 3 year support per processor                    5773-SM3-1253         8
...
CDW       3Com Switch 4200G 48-Port                           1020899               1
CDW       3Com Switch 4200G 48-Port Sup 1 yr, 24x7x4          819638                1
...
IBM       IBM DB2 Workgroup Server Edition  9.7               D0A1LLL               1
-         Limited Use Socket Lic+SW Maint 12 Months
IBM       IBM DB2 Workgroup Server Edition 9.7	             E07BQLL                2
-         Limited Use Socket SW Maint Rewl 1 Anniv
IBM       WebSphere Application Server V7                     D55W8LL              16**
-           Lic+SW Maint 12 Months
IBM       WebSphere Application Server V7	             E1CBILL               32
-           SW Maint Rewl 1 Anniv
-           Fix Pack 13 (7.0.0.13)
-           PM20973
-           Feature Pack for OSGi Applications and Java Persistence API 2.0
-           OSGi & JPA Fix Pack 1.0.0.1
...
** Note:  Pricing for WebSphere is based on Processor Value Units (PVU).  Each POWER7 core is 70 PVU.


Other Benchmark Information
  DNS round robin load balancing was used and hosted on the database machine
  All network connections were 1Gbps

General Notes
All exceptions in driver logs are from Optimistic Concurrency Checking.
These exceptions are expected in the benchmark.

The IBM DB2 Universal JDBC Drivers is a type 4 driver.

DB2 uses "Soft" checkpoint to ensure that no updates remain unflushed for
longer than the allowed time.

When DB2 UDB Server changes a database table with an update, insert, or delete
operation, the change is initially made in memory, not on disk. When there is
not enough space in the memory buffer to read in or write additional data pages,
DB2 UDB Server will make space by flushing some modified pages to disk.
Modified pages are also written to disk as part of the "Soft" checkpoint to
ensure that no updates remain unflushed for longer than the allowed time.
Before a change is made to the database, it is first recorded in the
transaction log. This ensures that the database can be recovered completely
in the event of a failure. Using the transaction log, transactions that
started but did not complete prior to a failure can be undone, and
transactions recorded as complete in the transaction log but not yet written
to disk can be redone.

DB2 UDB uses a write-ahead-logging protocol to guarantee recovery. This
protocol uses "Soft" checkpoint to write least-recently-used database pages
to disk independent of transaction commit. However, enough log information to
redo/undo the change to a database pages is committed to disk before the
database page itself is written. This protocol therefore renders checkpoint
unnecessary for DB2 UDB. For a more detailed description of the general
principles of the write-ahead-logging protocol, see the IBM research paper,
ARIES: A Transaction Recovery Method Supporting Fine Granularity Locking and
Partial Rollbacks Using Write-Ahead Logging," by C. Mohan, Database Technology
Institute, IBM Almaden Research Center. (http:// portal.acm.org/citation.cfm
?id=128770&coll=portal&dl=ACM&CFID=10343790&CFTOKEN=42047146)


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First published at SPEC.org on 26-Jan-2011