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Machines used for Performance Comparison


Here you can find a short description of the machines and their processors which have been used for our benchmarks. In the remainder of these pages we will use the following abbreviations for the denomination of these machines:

  • SFE2900 / SFE6900: Sun Fire E2900 / E6900
    12 / 24 dualcore UltraSPARC IV chips @ 1.2 GHz, 46 / 96 GB memory,
    Solaris 10, Sun Studio 11 and 12
    "Well-tempered old-fashioned SMP with flat memory"
  • SFE25K: Sun Fire E25K
    72  dualcore UltraSPARC IV chips @ 1.05 GHz, 288 GB memory,
    Solaris 10, Sun Studio 11 and 12
    "large SMP with ccNUMA architecture"
  • SFV40z: Sun Fire V40z
    4 dualcore AMD Opteron 885 processors @ 2.2 GHz
    Solaris 10, Sun Studio 11 and 12
    "ccNUMA in a few rack units"
  • DPE1950W: Dell PowerEdge 1950
    2 dualcore Intel Xeon 5160 (Woodcrest) processors @ 3.0 GHz
    Scientific Linux 4.4 and Intel Compiler V9.1 and 10.0
    "fast shared-cache architecture with memory bottleneck"
  • DPE1950C: Dell PowerEdge 1950
    2 quadcore Intel Xeon 5355 (Clovertown) procssors @ 2.66 GHz
    Scientific Linux 4.4 and Intel Compiler V9.1 and 10.0
    "two Woodcrest chips put onto one socket"
  • ST5x20 beta: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 / T5220  1 eight-core UltraSPARC T2 chip  @ 1.4 GHz, 32 GB memory, Solaris 10, Sun Studio 11 and 12"The new kid on the block"

In a few comparisons we also refer to the IBM GlueGene/L and the NEC SX-8, which are descibed elsewhere.

 

Comparing the processors

Proc chip

US IV

AMD
Opteron 875

Intel
Xeon 5160
(Woodcrest)

Intel
Xeon 5355
(Clovertown)

UltraSPARC T2

Cores / Threads

2

2

2

4

 8 / 64

Cycle [GHz]

1.2

2.2

3.0

 2.66

1.4

instr [MIPS]

9,600
sparc v9

13,200
x86

24,000
x86

42,600
x86

22,400
sparc v9

Float.point [Gflop/s]

4.8

8.8

24

 42.6

11.2

technology

130 nm

90 nm

65 nm

65 nm

65 nm

L2 cache

2x8 MB (L2)
of chip

2x1 MB (L2)
on chip

1x4 MB (L2)

on chip

2x4 MB (L2)

on chip

 1 x 4 MB (L2)
on chip

 

Comparing the boxes

Server

Sun Fire
E2900 / E6900

Sun Fire
V40z

Dell Power-
Edge 1950

Dell Power-
Edge 1950

Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120/T5220

Code

SFE2900 / SFE6900

SFV40z

DPE1950W

DPE1950C

ST5x20 beta

Proc chip
clock [GHz]

US IV
1.2
1 cabinet

Opt 875
2.2
3 units

Xeon 5120
3.0
1 unit

Xeon 5355
2.66
1 unit

UltraSPARC T2
1.4
1 / 2 units

# Proc chips

12 / 24

4

2

4 on 2 sockets

1

# cores

24 / 48

8

4

8

8

# threads

24 / 48

8

4

8

64

Instructions
[GIPS]

115.200 / 230,400
 sparc v9

52,800
x86

48,000
x86

85,100x86

22,400
sparc v9

Float.point [Gflop/s]

57.6 / 115.2

35.2

48

85

11.2

Accum. L2
cache [MB]

192 off chip
1.5 / 3.0 L1

8

8

16

4

Memory [GB]

48  / 96

16

8

16

8

 

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