Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,160,957
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 145,120
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     1,159,834
Calibration 2     1,163,041
Calibration 3     1,162,529
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,162,785
100% 99.8% 1,162,785 1,160,957
90% 90.2% 1,046,507 1,049,066
80% 79.9% 930,228 928,804
70% 70.2% 813,950 815,944
60% 60.3% 697,671 700,974
50% 50.1% 581,393 582,650
40% 39.8% 465,114 463,153
30% 29.8% 348,836 346,291
20% 20.1% 232,557 233,170
10% 10.1% 116,279 117,333
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%
    M420-04b.001 144,908
    M420-04b.002 144,622
    M420-04b.003 142,950
    M420-04b.004 146,841
    M420-04b.005 148,060
    M420-04b.006 144,471
    M420-04b.007 144,480
    M420-04b.008 144,625
    ssj_ops@100% 1,160,957
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 145,120
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-04b.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,819
    Calibration 2     146,039
    Calibration 3     145,984
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,011
    100% 99.2% 146,011 144,908
    90% 90.2% 131,410 131,655
    80% 79.0% 116,809 115,321
    70% 69.9% 102,208 102,124
    60% 60.5% 87,607 88,379
    50% 49.7% 73,006 72,585
    40% 39.7% 58,405 58,023
    30% 29.6% 43,803 43,240
    20% 19.8% 29,202 28,896
    10% 9.8% 14,601 14,335
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,358
    Calibration 2     144,607
    Calibration 3     145,152
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,880
    100% 99.8% 144,880 144,622
    90% 90.0% 130,392 130,379
    80% 79.7% 115,904 115,403
    70% 70.0% 101,416 101,402
    60% 60.0% 86,928 86,943
    50% 50.2% 72,440 72,779
    40% 39.8% 57,952 57,725
    30% 29.4% 43,464 42,657
    20% 20.0% 28,976 29,046
    10% 10.4% 14,488 15,017
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,868
    Calibration 2     144,166
    Calibration 3     143,845
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,005
    100% 99.3% 144,005 142,950
    90% 89.8% 129,605 129,342
    80% 80.9% 115,204 116,469
    70% 69.5% 100,804 100,096
    60% 59.8% 86,403 86,065
    50% 50.2% 72,003 72,266
    40% 39.8% 57,602 57,279
    30% 29.7% 43,202 42,752
    20% 19.9% 28,801 28,677
    10% 10.3% 14,401 14,762
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,550
    Calibration 2     146,356
    Calibration 3     146,576
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,466
    100% 100.3% 146,466 146,841
    90% 90.3% 131,819 132,220
    80% 80.2% 117,173 117,536
    70% 70.2% 102,526 102,828
    60% 60.2% 87,880 88,209
    50% 49.8% 73,233 72,973
    40% 39.8% 58,586 58,271
    30% 30.0% 43,940 44,009
    20% 20.4% 29,293 29,908
    10% 10.0% 14,647 14,650
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     148,612
    Calibration 2     148,339
    Calibration 3     146,765
    ssj_ops@calibrated=147,552
    100% 100.3% 147,552 148,060
    90% 90.2% 132,797 133,108
    80% 79.3% 118,042 116,949
    70% 70.4% 103,287 103,876
    60% 60.2% 88,531 88,868
    50% 50.5% 73,776 74,453
    40% 40.3% 59,021 59,499
    30% 29.5% 44,266 43,554
    20% 20.3% 29,510 29,952
    10% 10.0% 14,755 14,691
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,236
    Calibration 2     144,283
    Calibration 3     144,945
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,614
    100% 99.9% 144,614 144,471
    90% 90.3% 130,152 130,579
    80% 79.8% 115,691 115,349
    70% 70.1% 101,230 101,390
    60% 60.6% 86,768 87,600
    50% 50.6% 72,307 73,239
    40% 39.4% 57,845 56,936
    30% 30.0% 43,384 43,429
    20% 19.9% 28,923 28,821
    10% 10.2% 14,461 14,820
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,219
    Calibration 2     144,557
    Calibration 3     143,781
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,169
    100% 100.2% 144,169 144,480
    90% 90.3% 129,752 130,229
    80% 80.5% 115,335 116,020
    70% 70.5% 100,918 101,689
    60% 60.0% 86,501 86,442
    50% 50.1% 72,085 72,164
    40% 40.1% 57,668 57,758
    30% 30.1% 43,251 43,414
    20% 20.0% 28,834 28,825
    10% 10.2% 14,417 14,725
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    JVM 'M420-04b.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,174
    Calibration 2     144,694
    Calibration 3     145,482
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,088
    100% 99.7% 145,088 144,625
    90% 90.7% 130,579 131,554
    80% 79.8% 116,070 115,757
    70% 70.7% 101,561 102,539
    60% 61.0% 87,053 88,468
    50% 49.8% 72,544 72,189
    40% 39.7% 58,035 57,661
    30% 29.8% 43,526 43,235
    20% 20.0% 29,018 29,046
    10% 9.9% 14,509 14,333
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results