Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,156,418
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,552
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     1,157,597
Calibration 2     1,160,785
Calibration 3     1,159,487
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,160,136
100% 99.7% 1,160,136 1,156,418
90% 90.0% 1,044,122 1,044,447
80% 80.1% 928,109 929,834
70% 69.8% 812,095 809,475
60% 60.1% 696,082 696,771
50% 50.3% 580,068 583,964
40% 39.8% 464,054 461,737
30% 30.2% 348,041 350,618
20% 19.9% 232,027 231,393
10% 10.0% 116,014 115,434
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%
    M420-07b.001 144,075
    M420-07b.002 143,346
    M420-07b.003 145,396
    M420-07b.004 144,108
    M420-07b.005 144,659
    M420-07b.006 144,965
    M420-07b.007 143,884
    M420-07b.008 145,985
    ssj_ops@100% 1,156,418
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,552
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-07b.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,072
    Calibration 2     144,013
    Calibration 3     143,938
    ssj_ops@calibrated=143,976
    100% 100.1% 143,976 144,075
    90% 90.0% 129,578 129,637
    80% 79.8% 115,181 114,937
    70% 69.5% 100,783 99,992
    60% 60.1% 86,385 86,464
    50% 50.2% 71,988 72,255
    40% 39.6% 57,590 56,982
    30% 30.0% 43,193 43,229
    20% 20.5% 28,795 29,479
    10% 10.1% 14,398 14,585
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,227
    Calibration 2     144,784
    Calibration 3     143,963
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,373
    100% 99.3% 144,373 143,346
    90% 90.3% 129,936 130,353
    80% 80.0% 115,499 115,563
    70% 70.2% 101,061 101,390
    60% 60.9% 86,624 87,896
    50% 50.6% 72,187 73,080
    40% 39.9% 57,749 57,616
    30% 29.8% 43,312 43,031
    20% 19.7% 28,875 28,390
    10% 10.2% 14,437 14,656
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,477
    Calibration 2     146,151
    Calibration 3     145,676
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,913
    100% 99.6% 145,913 145,396
    90% 89.9% 131,322 131,156
    80% 81.0% 116,731 118,150
    70% 69.2% 102,139 101,028
    60% 60.1% 87,548 87,628
    50% 50.0% 72,957 72,900
    40% 39.9% 58,365 58,259
    30% 30.6% 43,774 44,641
    20% 20.0% 29,183 29,152
    10% 9.9% 14,591 14,479
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     145,023
    Calibration 2     145,198
    Calibration 3     144,874
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,036
    100% 99.4% 145,036 144,108
    90% 89.6% 130,532 129,919
    80% 79.6% 116,029 115,389
    70% 69.4% 101,525 100,620
    60% 59.5% 87,022 86,320
    50% 50.0% 72,518 72,555
    40% 39.8% 58,014 57,659
    30% 30.5% 43,511 44,304
    20% 19.8% 29,007 28,650
    10% 9.7% 14,504 14,130
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,536
    Calibration 2     144,469
    Calibration 3     144,642
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,556
    100% 100.1% 144,556 144,659
    90% 89.9% 130,100 129,905
    80% 79.9% 115,645 115,459
    70% 70.4% 101,189 101,710
    60% 59.5% 86,733 86,002
    50% 50.1% 72,278 72,463
    40% 39.7% 57,822 57,424
    30% 30.4% 43,367 43,950
    20% 20.1% 28,911 28,992
    10% 10.0% 14,456 14,429
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,652
    Calibration 2     145,967
    Calibration 3     145,608
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,787
    100% 99.4% 145,787 144,965
    90% 90.6% 131,208 132,023
    80% 80.1% 116,630 116,726
    70% 70.0% 102,051 102,079
    60% 59.6% 87,472 86,844
    50% 50.5% 72,894 73,594
    40% 39.4% 58,315 57,431
    30% 30.1% 43,736 43,916
    20% 20.2% 29,157 29,408
    10% 10.0% 14,579 14,506
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,121
    Calibration 2     144,172
    Calibration 3     144,224
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,198
    100% 99.8% 144,198 143,884
    90% 90.2% 129,778 130,000
    80% 80.4% 115,358 115,965
    70% 69.8% 100,939 100,584
    60% 61.1% 86,519 88,126
    50% 50.4% 72,099 72,746
    40% 39.6% 57,679 57,077
    30% 30.1% 43,259 43,474
    20% 19.6% 28,840 28,245
    10% 10.0% 14,420 14,433
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07b.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,489
    Calibration 2     146,031
    Calibration 3     146,563
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,297
    100% 99.8% 146,297 145,985
    90% 89.9% 131,667 131,454
    80% 80.4% 117,037 117,645
    70% 69.8% 102,408 102,073
    60% 59.8% 87,778 87,492
    50% 50.8% 73,148 74,371
    40% 40.5% 58,519 59,290
    30% 30.1% 43,889 44,072
    20% 19.9% 29,259 29,077
    10% 9.7% 14,630 14,216
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.