Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,154,967
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,371
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     1,156,502
Calibration 2     1,159,154
Calibration 3     1,156,414
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,157,784
100% 99.8% 1,157,784 1,154,967
90% 90.1% 1,042,006 1,042,705
80% 80.2% 926,227 928,375
70% 70.2% 810,449 812,302
60% 59.8% 694,671 692,089
50% 50.1% 578,892 579,958
40% 39.9% 463,114 461,947
30% 30.0% 347,335 347,159
20% 20.1% 231,557 232,336
10% 9.9% 115,778 114,955
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%
    M420-06a.001 143,395
    M420-06a.002 144,852
    M420-06a.003 145,539
    M420-06a.004 144,628
    M420-06a.005 145,140
    M420-06a.006 143,771
    M420-06a.007 143,661
    M420-06a.008 143,979
    ssj_ops@100% 1,154,967
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,371
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-06a.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,447
    Calibration 2     145,093
    Calibration 3     144,706
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,900
    100% 99.0% 144,900 143,395
    90% 90.9% 130,410 131,753
    80% 80.5% 115,920 116,576
    70% 70.3% 101,430 101,858
    60% 59.3% 86,940 85,861
    50% 50.4% 72,450 73,023
    40% 39.4% 57,960 57,047
    30% 29.8% 43,470 43,230
    20% 20.1% 28,980 29,183
    10% 10.0% 14,490 14,439
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,908
    Calibration 2     145,357
    Calibration 3     144,000
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,678
    100% 100.1% 144,678 144,852
    90% 89.8% 130,211 129,971
    80% 79.8% 115,743 115,518
    70% 70.1% 101,275 101,410
    60% 60.2% 86,807 87,136
    50% 50.2% 72,339 72,643
    40% 40.0% 57,871 57,816
    30% 30.2% 43,404 43,751
    20% 20.2% 28,936 29,283
    10% 10.0% 14,468 14,466
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,925
    Calibration 2     145,049
    Calibration 3     145,427
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,238
    100% 100.2% 145,238 145,539
    90% 89.9% 130,714 130,530
    80% 79.4% 116,190 115,283
    70% 70.1% 101,667 101,881
    60% 60.2% 87,143 87,379
    50% 50.3% 72,619 73,108
    40% 40.0% 58,095 58,048
    30% 30.0% 43,571 43,569
    20% 20.1% 29,048 29,184
    10% 10.0% 14,524 14,591
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,173
    Calibration 2     144,716
    Calibration 3     144,842
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,779
    100% 99.9% 144,779 144,628
    90% 89.6% 130,301 129,794
    80% 80.6% 115,823 116,683
    70% 70.1% 101,345 101,440
    60% 60.1% 86,867 86,976
    50% 50.3% 72,389 72,780
    40% 39.8% 57,911 57,606
    30% 29.8% 43,434 43,137
    20% 19.7% 28,956 28,506
    10% 10.0% 14,478 14,474
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,085
    Calibration 2     145,547
    Calibration 3     146,308
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,928
    100% 99.5% 145,928 145,140
    90% 89.7% 131,335 130,834
    80% 80.0% 116,742 116,760
    70% 69.4% 102,149 101,244
    60% 60.1% 87,557 87,704
    50% 50.0% 72,964 72,919
    40% 40.1% 58,371 58,473
    30% 29.8% 43,778 43,542
    20% 19.9% 29,186 29,049
    10% 9.8% 14,593 14,329
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,965
    Calibration 2     144,124
    Calibration 3     143,570
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,847
    100% 99.9% 143,847 143,771
    90% 90.6% 129,462 130,366
    80% 79.9% 115,077 114,978
    70% 70.5% 100,693 101,405
    60% 59.6% 86,308 85,747
    50% 49.7% 71,923 71,472
    40% 40.0% 57,539 57,595
    30% 30.0% 43,154 43,154
    20% 19.8% 28,769 28,496
    10% 9.8% 14,385 14,145
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,103
    Calibration 2     144,774
    Calibration 3     143,977
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,375
    100% 99.5% 144,375 143,661
    90% 89.6% 129,938 129,338
    80% 80.8% 115,500 116,586
    70% 70.8% 101,063 102,287
    60% 59.2% 86,625 85,457
    50% 50.0% 72,188 72,124
    40% 40.0% 57,750 57,787
    30% 29.8% 43,313 43,001
    20% 20.4% 28,875 29,383
    10% 9.7% 14,438 13,998
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-06a.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,897
    Calibration 2     144,495
    Calibration 3     143,584
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,039
    100% 100.0% 144,039 143,979
    90% 90.3% 129,635 130,118
    80% 80.5% 115,231 115,992
    70% 70.0% 100,828 100,776
    60% 59.6% 86,424 85,829
    50% 49.9% 72,020 71,890
    40% 40.0% 57,616 57,574
    30% 30.4% 43,212 43,775
    20% 20.3% 28,808 29,251
    10% 10.1% 14,404 14,512
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.