Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,157,824
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,728
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     1,157,922
Calibration 2     1,163,412
Calibration 3     1,162,033
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,162,723
100% 99.6% 1,162,723 1,157,824
90% 90.2% 1,046,450 1,048,790
80% 79.8% 930,178 928,105
70% 70.1% 813,906 815,274
60% 60.1% 697,634 698,292
50% 50.0% 581,361 581,691
40% 40.0% 465,089 465,221
30% 30.2% 348,817 350,626
20% 20.0% 232,545 232,344
10% 10.0% 116,272 116,035
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%
    M420-02d.001 144,730
    M420-02d.002 144,133
    M420-02d.003 143,741
    M420-02d.004 146,980
    M420-02d.005 143,382
    M420-02d.006 145,168
    M420-02d.007 144,974
    M420-02d.008 144,716
    ssj_ops@100% 1,157,824
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,728
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-02d.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,555
    Calibration 2     145,561
    Calibration 3     145,247
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,404
    100% 99.5% 145,404 144,730
    90% 89.8% 130,864 130,522
    80% 79.2% 116,323 115,127
    70% 70.4% 101,783 102,296
    60% 60.1% 87,242 87,336
    50% 50.0% 72,702 72,762
    40% 40.0% 58,162 58,226
    30% 29.8% 43,621 43,364
    20% 20.4% 29,081 29,641
    10% 10.0% 14,540 14,572
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,058
    Calibration 2     145,251
    Calibration 3     144,363
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,807
    100% 99.5% 144,807 144,133
    90% 89.5% 130,326 129,621
    80% 79.7% 115,846 115,389
    70% 70.0% 101,365 101,433
    60% 59.9% 86,884 86,672
    50% 50.7% 72,404 73,441
    40% 40.2% 57,923 58,157
    30% 30.2% 43,442 43,776
    20% 20.0% 28,961 28,979
    10% 9.9% 14,481 14,387
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,213
    Calibration 2     144,019
    Calibration 3     143,860
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,940
    100% 99.9% 143,940 143,741
    90% 90.3% 129,546 129,964
    80% 80.1% 115,152 115,363
    70% 70.0% 100,758 100,796
    60% 59.9% 86,364 86,175
    50% 50.2% 71,970 72,291
    40% 39.9% 57,576 57,482
    30% 30.5% 43,182 43,841
    20% 20.0% 28,788 28,783
    10% 10.2% 14,394 14,687
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,412
    Calibration 2     147,770
    Calibration 3     147,709
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,740
    100% 99.5% 147,740 146,980
    90% 89.9% 132,966 132,866
    80% 80.4% 118,192 118,781
    70% 69.7% 103,418 102,968
    60% 59.9% 88,644 88,553
    50% 49.9% 73,870 73,697
    40% 40.1% 59,096 59,210
    30% 30.9% 44,322 45,610
    20% 20.1% 29,548 29,662
    10% 9.9% 14,774 14,658
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,919
    Calibration 2     144,228
    Calibration 3     144,195
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,212
    100% 99.4% 144,212 143,382
    90% 89.6% 129,791 129,233
    80% 79.6% 115,369 114,842
    70% 70.1% 100,948 101,083
    60% 60.2% 86,527 86,846
    50% 50.1% 72,106 72,297
    40% 40.3% 57,685 58,076
    30% 29.7% 43,264 42,878
    20% 20.1% 28,842 28,966
    10% 10.1% 14,421 14,575
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,749
    Calibration 2     145,336
    Calibration 3     145,514
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,425
    100% 99.8% 145,425 145,168
    90% 91.3% 130,883 132,832
    80% 79.9% 116,340 116,139
    70% 70.2% 101,798 102,067
    60% 60.3% 87,255 87,656
    50% 49.9% 72,713 72,611
    40% 39.8% 58,170 57,931
    30% 29.4% 43,628 42,695
    20% 19.7% 29,085 28,705
    10% 9.9% 14,543 14,454
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,720
    Calibration 2     145,054
    Calibration 3     145,507
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,280
    100% 99.8% 145,280 144,974
    90% 90.6% 130,752 131,678
    80% 80.5% 116,224 116,884
    70% 70.7% 101,696 102,665
    60% 60.0% 87,168 87,203
    50% 50.1% 72,640 72,812
    40% 39.8% 58,112 57,843
    30% 30.2% 43,584 43,841
    20% 19.7% 29,056 28,638
    10% 10.0% 14,528 14,456
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-02d.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,295
    Calibration 2     146,191
    Calibration 3     145,638
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,915
    100% 99.2% 145,915 144,716
    90% 90.5% 131,323 132,074
    80% 79.2% 116,732 115,581
    70% 69.9% 102,140 101,966
    60% 60.2% 87,549 87,849
    50% 49.2% 72,957 71,779
    40% 40.0% 58,366 58,296
    30% 30.6% 43,774 44,620
    20% 19.9% 29,183 28,970
    10% 9.8% 14,591 14,246
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.