Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,156,455
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,557
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     1,159,918
Calibration 2     1,161,569
Calibration 3     1,160,029
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,160,799
100% 99.6% 1,160,799 1,156,455
90% 90.3% 1,044,719 1,047,983
80% 79.6% 928,639 923,559
70% 70.0% 812,559 812,130
60% 60.1% 696,479 697,464
50% 50.0% 580,399 580,832
40% 39.8% 464,320 462,133
30% 30.1% 348,240 348,908
20% 20.2% 232,160 234,146
10% 10.0% 116,080 116,621
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%
    M420-01d.001 143,327
    M420-01d.002 143,592
    M420-01d.003 147,016
    M420-01d.004 143,877
    M420-01d.005 145,276
    M420-01d.006 144,677
    M420-01d.007 143,296
    M420-01d.008 145,395
    ssj_ops@100% 1,156,455
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,557
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-01d.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,360
    Calibration 2     144,173
    Calibration 3     144,036
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,104
    100% 99.5% 144,104 143,327
    90% 90.6% 129,694 130,575
    80% 79.2% 115,283 114,196
    70% 69.6% 100,873 100,335
    60% 60.2% 86,463 86,763
    50% 49.6% 72,052 71,487
    40% 39.8% 57,642 57,327
    30% 29.9% 43,231 43,137
    20% 19.7% 28,821 28,417
    10% 10.1% 14,410 14,591
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,149
    Calibration 2     144,322
    Calibration 3     143,492
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,907
    100% 99.8% 143,907 143,592
    90% 89.5% 129,516 128,784
    80% 79.6% 115,126 114,503
    70% 70.5% 100,735 101,437
    60% 60.0% 86,344 86,381
    50% 50.2% 71,954 72,201
    40% 40.3% 57,563 58,051
    30% 30.0% 43,172 43,228
    20% 20.0% 28,781 28,757
    10% 9.9% 14,391 14,254
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,573
    Calibration 2     146,398
    Calibration 3     147,620
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,009
    100% 100.0% 147,009 147,016
    90% 89.7% 132,308 131,852
    80% 79.2% 117,607 116,470
    70% 69.4% 102,906 101,977
    60% 59.6% 88,205 87,645
    50% 49.5% 73,504 72,819
    40% 39.7% 58,804 58,388
    30% 30.3% 44,103 44,607
    20% 20.2% 29,402 29,710
    10% 9.8% 14,701 14,471
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,599
    Calibration 2     144,637
    Calibration 3     144,599
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,618
    100% 99.5% 144,618 143,877
    90% 90.4% 130,156 130,701
    80% 79.7% 115,694 115,302
    70% 69.9% 101,233 101,106
    60% 60.2% 86,771 87,055
    50% 49.6% 72,309 71,733
    40% 39.3% 57,847 56,792
    30% 30.0% 43,385 43,386
    20% 20.4% 28,924 29,433
    10% 10.1% 14,462 14,672
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,017
    Calibration 2     146,118
    Calibration 3     145,197
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,657
    100% 99.7% 145,657 145,276
    90% 90.4% 131,092 131,679
    80% 79.1% 116,526 115,266
    70% 70.7% 101,960 103,012
    60% 59.9% 87,394 87,228
    50% 50.1% 72,829 73,037
    40% 39.7% 58,263 57,760
    30% 29.8% 43,697 43,366
    20% 20.2% 29,131 29,443
    10% 9.8% 14,566 14,319
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,924
    Calibration 2     145,187
    Calibration 3     145,013
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,100
    100% 99.7% 145,100 144,677
    90% 90.2% 130,590 130,931
    80% 80.2% 116,080 116,396
    70% 69.9% 101,570 101,355
    60% 60.4% 87,060 87,581
    50% 50.4% 72,550 73,070
    40% 39.7% 58,040 57,549
    30% 29.5% 43,530 42,835
    20% 20.4% 29,020 29,568
    10% 10.3% 14,510 14,948
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,843
    Calibration 2     144,045
    Calibration 3     143,958
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,002
    100% 99.5% 144,002 143,296
    90% 90.8% 129,602 130,695
    80% 79.4% 115,202 114,318
    70% 69.8% 100,801 100,578
    60% 60.5% 86,401 87,112
    50% 50.1% 72,001 72,081
    40% 40.0% 57,601 57,548
    30% 30.4% 43,201 43,705
    20% 20.3% 28,800 29,179
    10% 10.0% 14,400 14,450
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-01d.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,452
    Calibration 2     146,689
    Calibration 3     146,114
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,401
    100% 99.3% 146,401 145,395
    90% 90.7% 131,761 132,766
    80% 80.0% 117,121 117,108
    70% 69.9% 102,481 102,329
    60% 59.9% 87,841 87,700
    50% 50.8% 73,201 74,403
    40% 40.1% 58,561 58,718
    30% 30.5% 43,920 44,644
    20% 20.2% 29,280 29,639
    10% 10.2% 14,640 14,916
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.