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Systems Power Hardware 595 pages.

Systems Power Hardware 595 pages.


Multiuser performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz rPerf* CPW**
POWER6 4 8 16 4.2 75.58 35,500
POWER6 8 16 32 4.2 142.9 66,400
POWER6 12 24 48 4.2 204.7 93,800
POWER6 16 32 64 4.2 266.51 128,000
POWER6 24 48 96 4.2 373.6  
POWER6 32 64 128 4.2 479.89 256,200
POWER6 4 8 16 5.0 87.1 41,000
POWER6 8 16 32 5.0 164.67 77,000
POWER6 12 24 48 5.0 235.9 108,100
POWER6 16 32 64 5.0 307.12 147,900
POWER6 24 48 96 5.0 430.53  
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 553.01 294,700

SPEC CPU2006 and SPECjbb2005 performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS     SPEC CPU2006   SPECjbb2005
SPEC
int_rate
SPEC
fp_rate
BOPS
POWER6 16 32 64 5.0 IBM i       1,530,343
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 AIX 5.3 2,083 2,108   3,435,485
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 RHEL 5.1 2,100 2,100    
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 SLES11 2,155 2,184    

TPC-C Version 5 performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS tpmC $/tpmc Database Avail Date
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 AIX 5.3 6,085,166,00 $2.81 DB2 9.5 10/12/2008

SAP performance - SD 2-Tier*** performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS Number of
Benchmark
Users
Central
Server
ERP Release Certificate
Number
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 AIX 6.1 35,400 Power 595 6.0 (2005) 2008019

SPEC OMP performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS                 SPEC OMP2001
Threads Mpeak Mbase
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 RHEL 5.2 128 242,116 172,311

LINPACK performance

Technology Chips Cores Threads GHz OS LINPACK HPC
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 RHEL 5.1 1,032,000
POWER6 32 64 128 5.0 SLES11 1,046,000

For full details on these and all other benchmarks published by IBM Power Systems, see the Power Systems Performance Report.

* rPerf (Relative Performance)

** CPW (Commercial Processing Workload)

*** For full details on these and other SAP benchmarks, see SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark Results, Two-Tier Internet Configuration at http://www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on SPEC results, see http://www.spec.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)
For details on TPC results, see http://www.tpc.org/ (link resides outside of ibm.com)

The benchmarks and values shown herein were derived using particular, well configured, development-level computer systems. Actual system performance may vary and is dependent upon many factors including system hardware configuration and software design and configuration. Additional information about these benchmarks and associated trademarks.

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