1. Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark results current as of October 7, 2008; System configuration: 32-core IBM Power 570 (16 processors/32 cores/64 threads) running IBM DB2 Enterprise 9.5 database software, AIX 6.1, the SAP ERP application Release 6.0. The SAP certification number is 2008057 and can be found at www.sap.com/benchmark (link resides outside of ibm.com). Results are as follows: 14,432 SAP SD Benchmark users, 1.99 second average response time, 1,445,000 fully processed line items per hour, 4,335,000 dialog steps/hour, 72,250 SAPS, 0.006 sec / 0.012 sec average database request time (dia/upd), 99% CPU utilization of central server.
2. SPEC® is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results based on SPECint_rate2006 as of September 25, 2008 and published on www.spec.org (link resides outside of ibm.com). Power 570 results to be submitted on October 7, 2008. System data for Sun is from the "Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server Site Planning Guide" available at http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-4203-13 (link resides outside of ibm.com) as of September 25, 2008. Systems were compared based on maximum processor configuration because that is the data point for which power requirements are defined. Other configurations could have different performance per watt metrics.
IBM Power 570 results are for a system with 16 chips, 32 cores and two threads per core with a result of 832. The recommended maximum power usage for site planning is 5600 watts. Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 results are for a system with 16 chips, 64 cores and 2 threads per core with a result of 637. The recommended power usage for site planning is 10,500 watts. Performance per watt is calculated by dividing the performance by the maximum system power.