IBM POWER5 Systems Continue to Demonstrate Performance Leadership18 November 2005
IBM today announced a new industry record
SPECjbb2005 benchmark result with the IBM eServer p5 570 1.9 GHz 16-core
server originally announced in July, 2004. IBM has introduced over 70
industry-leading benchmark results(1) since the original eServer p5
announcement, continuing to demonstrate the leadership of the POWER
architecture. IBM's POWER4™ systems, introduced in 2001, were the
industry's first dual-core systems and the POWER5™ and POWER5+™
servers continue the performance and price/performance leadership first
established with POWER4 servers.
SPECjbb2005 evaluates the performance of a server running typical Java™
business applications by simulating an order processor for a wholesale
supplier. It also measures the performance of CPUs, caches, memory
hierarchy and the scalability of shared memory processors (SMPs).
The IBM eServer p5 570 16-core SPECjbb2005 result of 244,361 business
operations per second (bops) surpassed Sun's new dual-core UltraSPARC IV+
based Sun Fire E6900 32-core result of 241,560 bops. The eServer p5 570
SPECjbb2005 result also doubles Sun's 16-core Sun Fire V890 result.(2)
This leadership result adds to previously published IBM eServer p5 results
which also outpace Sun's recently published results. For example, IBM has
also bested the Sun Fire V890 16-core system's SPECint_rate result of 175
by 36% with the IBM eServer p5 575 1.5 GHz 16-core system's recently
announced result of 238.(3) The IBM eServer p5 595 1.9 GHz 64-core POWER5
server beats Sun's E20K 1.5 GHz 72-core UltraSPARC IV+ server by 55% on
SPECint_rate.(4) IBM has also demonstrated a price/performance advantage
of 47% with a performance advantage of 69% in the TPC-H 3 terabyte
benchmark versus the Sun E25K 72-core server with the IBM eServer p5 595
system's result of 100,512 QphH at $53.00 per QphH.(5)
"This benchmark result is but one more example of undisputable POWER5
performance leadership, which has been changing the server landscape since
its introduction in July 2004," said Karl Freund, vice president, pSeries,
IBM. "Once again we demonstrate that IBM servers outperform the
competition while using far fewer processors, or 'cores', to achieve record
results. This directly translates to large cost savings for our clients,
and has fueled our market share growth for 3 straight years."
Customers across multiple industries also see the benefits IBM's advantages
provide. According to IDC, IBM POWER servers have seen remarkable revenue
share growth and the POWER architecture is now an industry leading 64-bit
architecture. Since the announcement of the POWER5 processor in August
2004, IBM has increased its UNIX revenue share to 31.8 percent according to
IDC. In Q205, according to IDC, IBM was the number one UNIX server vendor
based on revenue share, compared to Sun and HP.(6)
IBM holds the world record 3.2 million tpmC TPC-C result. There has been
no Sun TPC-C result since September, 2001 against which to make any
comparison.(7)
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Benchmark Footnotes:
All results current as of November 10, 2005.
(1) Source: http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/benchmarks/
(2) IBM result submitted to SPEC as of October 26, 2005. Comparison based
on IBM eServer p5 570 16-way (16-core) 1.9 GHz SPECjbb2005 result of
244,361 business operations per second (bops) vs. Sun Fire E6900 (32-core)
1.5 GHz SPECjbb2005 result of 241,560 business operations per second (bops)
and Sun Fire V890 (16-core) 1.5GHz SPECjbb2005 result of 117,986 bops.
Sources: http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/jbb2005.html
(3) Comparison based on SPECint_rate Sun V890 16-core 1.5 GHz result of 175
vs. IBM eServer p5 575 16-core 1.5 GHz result of 238. Source:
http://www.spec.org
(4) Comparison based on SPECint_rate Sun E20K 72 core 1.5 GHz result of 739
vs. IBM eServer p5-595 64-core 1.9 GHz result of 1,147. Source:
http://www.spec.org
(5) Comparison based on TPC-H 3TB Sun E25K 144-core 1.2 GHz result of
59,435 QphH at $100.66/QphH (result date of 01/27/05, availability date of
07/27/05) vs. IBM eServer p5 595 64-core result of 100,512 QphH at
$53.00/QphH (result date of 09/19/05, availability date of 03/01/06).
Source: http://www.tpc.org
(6) IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2Q05, issued on August 25, 2005
(7) Based on IBM eServer p5 595 64-core TPC-C result of 3,210,540 tpmC at
$5.19/tpmC (result date of 11/18/04, availability date of 05/14/05).
Source: http://www.tpc.org
SPEC, SPECjbb, are reg ™ of the Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation. http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/
Contact:
Jill Holt
IBM Media Relations
p.914.766.4123
jolt@us.ibm.com
SOURCE: IBM
Source: Marketwire
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