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Linux Disk Alignment Reloaded

My all-time high post with the most pageviews is the one on Linux disk alignment: How to set disk alignment in Linux. In that post I showed an easy method on how to set and check disk alignment under linux.

Mar 28, 2013 9:10am

SPARC T5-8 Produces TPC-C Benchmark Single-System World Record Performance

Oracle's SPARC T5-8 server
equipped with eight 3.6 GHz SPARC T5 processors
obtained a result of 8,552,523 tpmC on the
TPC-C benchmark. This result is a world record for single servers.
Oracle demonstrated this world record database performance running
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition
with Partitioning.

  • The SPARC T5-8 server delivered a single system TPC-C world record of
    8,552,523 tpmC with a price performance of $0.55/tpmC
    using Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
    This configuration is available 09/25/13.

Mar 26, 2013 1:25pm

SPARC T5-8 Delivers SPECjEnterprise2010 Benchmark World Record Performance

Oracle produced a world record SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark result of
57,422.17 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS using Oracle's SPARC T5-8
server in the application tier and another SPARC T5-8
server for the database tier.

  • The SPARC T5-8 server
    demonstrated 3.4x better performance compared to an 8-socket
    IBM Power 780 server result of 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS.
    The SPARC T5-8 is 3.7x less expensive for the application server
    hardware list cost compared to the IBM configuration.

Mar 26, 2013 1:24pm

SPARC T5-2 Achieves SPECjbb2013 Benchmark World Record Result

Oracle, using Oracle Solaris and Oracle JDK, delivered a
two socket server
world record result on the SPECjbb2013 benchmark, Multi-JVM metric.
This benchmark was designed by the industry to showcase Java
server performance. SPECjbb2013 is the replacement for
SPECjbb2005 (SPECjbb2005 will soon be retired by SPEC).

Mar 26, 2013 1:23pm

SPARC T5-8 Realizes SAP SD Two-Tier Benchmark World Record for 8 Chip Systems

Oracle's SPARC T5-8 server produced a world record result for
systems with 8 processors on the
two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark.

  • The SPARC T5-8 server achieved 40,000 users with running the
    two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
    Standard Application Benchmark using
    SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

  • The SPARC T5-8 server is 57% faster than the IBM Power 760 8-chip
    running SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

Mar 26, 2013 1:22pm

SPARC M5-32 Produces SAP SD Two-Tier Benchmark World Record for SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0

Oracle's SPARC M5-32 server produced a world record result on the
two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark
using SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

  • The SPARC M5-32 server achieved 85,050 users running the
    two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD)
    Standard Application Benchmark using
    SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

  • The SPARC M5-32 solution was run with Oracle Solaris 11 and
    used the Oracle Database 11g.

Mar 26, 2013 1:21pm

SPARC T5 Systems Deliver SPEC CPU2006 Rate Benchmark Multiple World Records

Oracle's SPARC T5 processor based systems delivered
world record performance on the SPEC CPU2006 rate benchmarks.
This was accomplished with Oracle Solaris 11.1 and
Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 software.

SPARC T5-8

  • The SPARC T5-8 server delivered world record SPEC CPU2006 rate
    benchmark results for systems with eight processors.

  • The SPARC T5-8 server achieved scores of
    3750 SPECint_rate2006,
    3490 SPECint_rate_base2006,
    3020 SPECfp_rate2006, and
    2770 SPECfp_rate_base2006.

Mar 26, 2013 1:19pm

SPARC T5-2 Achieves JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Benchmark World Records

Oracle produced World Record batch throughput for single system results
on Oracle's JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Day-in-the-Life benchmark using
Oracle's SPARC T5-2 server running Oracle Solaris Containers and
consolidating JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, Oracle WebLogic servers and the
Oracle Database 11g Release 2. There are two workloads tested:
online plus batch workload and batch-only workload.

Online plus batch workload:

Mar 26, 2013 1:17pm

SPARC T5-2 Scores Siebel CRM Benchmark World Record

Oracle set a new world record for the Siebel Platform Sizing and Performance
Program (PSPP) benchmark using
Oracle's SPARC T5-2 servers for the application server
with Oracle's Siebel CRM 8.1.1.4 Industry Applications
and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 running on Oracle Solaris.

  • The SPARC T5-2 servers running the application tier achieved
    40,000 users with sub-second response time and with throughput of
    333,339 business transactions per hour on the Siebel PSPP benchmark.

Mar 26, 2013 1:15pm

SPARC T5 Systems Produce Oracle TimesTen Benchmark World Record

The Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database is optimized to run on Oracle's
SPARC T5 processor platforms running Oracle Solaris 11. In this series
of tests, systems with the new SPARC T5 processor were significantly
faster than systems based on other processors. Two tests were run to
explore TimesTen performance: a Mobile Call Processing test (based on
customer workload) and Oracle's TimesTen Performance Throughput
Benchmark (TPTBM). TimesTen version 11.2.2.4 was used for all tests.

Mar 26, 2013 1:13pm
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