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Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the fastest x86 Java server of them all? HPE leads in two categories but lags far behind in another. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) says: "The SPECjbb2015 benchmark has been developed from the ground up to measure performance based on the latest Java application …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    The Lenovo System x3850 X6 is junk. The Sys Admins who manage them are a joke. HPE crushes them.

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  2. Smoking Man

    Just for the records:

    Even though the HPE System carries the name "Integrity Superdome", it actually uses x86 processors.

    Pls. note the systems name in all its length and beauty : "HPE Integrity Superdome X".

    The Superdome system offering Itanium processors is called "HPE Integrity Superdome 2".

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  3. PlinkerTind

    SPARC M7

    Let us compare the jbb2015 x86 results versus SPARC M7. Many consider the crit-JOPS as the more important and representatitve of real life workloads.

    - 16-socket HPE Superdome reaches 777,000 max-JOPS and 85,000 crit-JOPS. It uses 2.20 GHz, 20 cores Intel Xeon E7-8890 v4.

    - 4-socket Synergy reaches 225,000 max-JOPS and 51,000 crit-JOPS It uses 2.40 GHz, 20 cores Intel Xeon E7-8894 v4.

    - 1-socket SPARC M7 reaches 160,000 max-JOPS and 60,000 crit-JOPS.

    I dont really see how anybody can consider x86 any good at all? Now imagine the Oracle 16-socket SPARC M7-16 server. It crushes everything on the market.

    HPE Superdome, 16-socket results:

    https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/res2016q3/jbb2015-20160830-00113.html

    Synergy, 4-sockets:

    https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/res2017q1/jbb2015-20170315-00156.html

    SPARC M7, 1-socket:

    http://www.oracle.com/us/solutions/performance-scalability/sparct7-1-specjbb2015-2764274.html

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    1. PlinkerTind
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      Re: SPARC M7

      It is interesting to note that going from 4-socket to 16-socket Intel Xeons achieves a near perfect scalability. If we quadruple the 4-socket result, it would achieve 900,000 max-JOPS. But the 16-socket server achieves 86% of that, i.e. 777,000. That is close to 100%. We draw the conclusion that max-JOPS scales almost linearly.

      This means the SPARC M7 should also scale close to linear. This means a 16-socket Oracle M7-16 server would achieve 16 * 160,000 max-JOPS = 2,560,000 max-JOPS with perfect scaling. However, we will not achieve perfect scaling, instead we only achieve 86% of the max performance, which means that M7-16 server should achieve 86% of 2,2560,000 = 2,210,000 max-JOPS in practice.

      So compare the 16-socket x86 jbb2015 result of 777,000 max-JOPS to the 16-socket SPARC result of 2,210,000 max-JOPS. So who believes that "x86 is indeed superior" ???.

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