Dell Inc. PowerEdge M420 ssj_ops@100% = 1,158,237
ssj_ops@100% per JVM = 144,780
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     1,156,353
Calibration 2     1,160,983
Calibration 3     1,159,323
ssj_ops@calibrated=1,160,153
100% 99.8% 1,160,153 1,158,237
90% 90.1% 1,044,138 1,045,588
80% 80.2% 928,122 930,242
70% 70.2% 812,107 814,622
60% 59.7% 696,092 693,055
50% 49.9% 580,076 578,970
40% 40.1% 464,061 465,798
30% 30.2% 348,046 350,003
20% 20.1% 232,031 233,294
10% 10.1% 116,015 117,164
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%
    M420-07c.001 145,623
    M420-07c.002 143,983
    M420-07c.003 144,036
    M420-07c.004 144,734
    M420-07c.005 144,937
    M420-07c.006 144,195
    M420-07c.007 145,492
    M420-07c.008 145,237
    ssj_ops@100% 1,158,237
    ssj_ops@100% per JVM 144,780
    Graph of per-instance results
    JVM 'M420-07c.001' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     146,044
    Calibration 2     146,396
    Calibration 3     146,247
    ssj_ops@calibrated=146,321
    100% 99.5% 146,321 145,623
    90% 89.6% 131,689 131,095
    80% 80.2% 117,057 117,324
    70% 70.0% 102,425 102,457
    60% 59.3% 87,793 86,760
    50% 50.4% 73,161 73,818
    40% 39.9% 58,529 58,419
    30% 30.8% 43,896 45,056
    20% 20.1% 29,264 29,450
    10% 10.3% 14,632 15,073
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.002' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,926
    Calibration 2     144,234
    Calibration 3     144,145
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,190
    100% 99.9% 144,190 143,983
    90% 90.6% 129,771 130,699
    80% 79.2% 115,352 114,261
    70% 70.5% 100,933 101,625
    60% 60.8% 86,514 87,710
    50% 49.9% 72,095 71,906
    40% 40.5% 57,676 58,338
    30% 29.9% 43,257 43,177
    20% 19.9% 28,838 28,757
    10% 10.3% 14,419 14,810
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.003' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,119
    Calibration 2     144,845
    Calibration 3     144,285
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,565
    100% 99.6% 144,565 144,036
    90% 90.2% 130,109 130,390
    80% 80.6% 115,652 116,511
    70% 70.5% 101,196 101,867
    60% 59.3% 86,739 85,754
    50% 49.9% 72,283 72,163
    40% 40.2% 57,826 58,167
    30% 30.1% 43,370 43,465
    20% 20.2% 28,913 29,178
    10% 10.0% 14,457 14,492
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.004' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,328
    Calibration 2     144,823
    Calibration 3     143,851
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,337
    100% 100.3% 144,337 144,734
    90% 90.1% 129,903 130,067
    80% 80.9% 115,470 116,791
    70% 69.9% 101,036 100,823
    60% 60.1% 86,602 86,686
    50% 49.3% 72,169 71,089
    40% 40.6% 57,735 58,534
    30% 30.1% 43,301 43,516
    20% 20.2% 28,867 29,104
    10% 10.0% 14,434 14,398
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.005' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,031
    Calibration 2     145,634
    Calibration 3     145,503
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,569
    100% 99.6% 145,569 144,937
    90% 90.6% 131,012 131,901
    80% 79.8% 116,455 116,092
    70% 70.8% 101,898 103,045
    60% 60.2% 87,341 87,621
    50% 50.1% 72,784 72,990
    40% 40.3% 58,227 58,725
    30% 30.1% 43,671 43,833
    20% 20.1% 29,114 29,327
    10% 10.0% 14,557 14,621
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.006' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     143,731
    Calibration 2     144,610
    Calibration 3     144,066
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,338
    100% 99.9% 144,338 144,195
    90% 89.6% 129,904 129,368
    80% 80.6% 115,470 116,316
    70% 70.2% 101,037 101,264
    60% 59.0% 86,603 85,134
    50% 49.7% 72,169 71,753
    40% 39.5% 57,735 56,991
    30% 30.2% 43,301 43,614
    20% 19.7% 28,868 28,422
    10% 9.9% 14,434 14,358
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.007' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,999
    Calibration 2     144,414
    Calibration 3     145,485
    ssj_ops@calibrated=144,950
    100% 100.4% 144,950 145,492
    90% 90.3% 130,455 130,836
    80% 80.0% 115,960 115,903
    70% 70.1% 101,465 101,574
    60% 59.9% 86,970 86,893
    50% 49.7% 72,475 72,039
    40% 39.8% 57,980 57,646
    30% 30.2% 43,485 43,715
    20% 20.5% 28,990 29,670
    10% 9.8% 14,495 14,258
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.
    JVM 'M420-07c.008' Scores:
    Target Load Actual Load ssj_ops
    Target Actual
    Calibration 1     144,174
    Calibration 2     146,026
    Calibration 3     145,740
    ssj_ops@calibrated=145,883
    100% 99.6% 145,883 145,237
    90% 90.0% 131,295 131,233
    80% 80.2% 116,706 117,045
    70% 69.9% 102,118 101,966
    60% 59.3% 87,530 86,496
    50% 50.2% 72,941 73,212
    40% 40.4% 58,353 58,977
    30% 29.9% 43,765 43,627
    20% 20.1% 29,177 29,387
    10% 10.4% 14,588 15,154
    Active Idle   0 0
    Graph of results
    See the JVM Instance Performance Report for additional details.