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- From: adrianc@sunfen.uk.sun.com (Adrian Cockcroft - Sun UK - Cambridge SE - SPARC Specialist)
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- Subject: Parallelised SPECfp92 on the SPARCcenter 2000
- Date: 16 Nov 1992 13:53:52 GMT
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- (This message concentrates on performance, the system architecture and config details
- will have to wait for another time...)
-
- Performance numbers for the SPARCcenter 2000 (a.k.a SunDragon) SPARCclassic
- and SPARCstation 10 model 41 running Solaris 2.X and SPARCcompilers 3.0alpha.
-
- The numbers were measured using Solaris 2.1 on all these platforms, for
- the SPARCclassic and SPARCstation 10 model 41 this is a beta release that
- ships in December 92, for the SPARCcenter 2000 this is a development release
- and the product will ship next spring with Solaris 2.2. SPARCcompilers 3.0
- will be released next year. The SC2000 will initially be supported in
- configurations with up to 8 CPU's. With further time for testing the
- huge configuration matrix and performance tuning 20 way systems will be
- supported towards the end of 1993. 2 CPU systems start under $100K and
- an 8 CPU system starts at about $200K.
-
- SPARCcompilers 3.0 include an improved code generator, with similar
- performance to the Apogee compilers used for the original SS10 SPEC figures
- but combined with a KAP *Parallelising* Fortran front end and a microtasking
- parallel fortran runtime harness to give the first quoted SPEC figures
- that are measured with a single Unix process running on multiple CPU's.
-
- To make it totally clear, these numbers are *NOT* produced by running two
- copies and adding the results, some of the SPEC benchmarks paralellise a bit
- and some of them parallelise pretty well. The C benchmarks are run straight
- and give single CPU performance levels.
-
- Here are the SPECfp92 results
-
- Name SPARCclassic SS10/41 SC2000 with 8 M41 CPU's
- 013.spice2g6 17.0 43.1 42.0
- 015.doduc 17.0 49.3 48.7
- 034.mdljdp2 24.6 67.7 65.8
- 039.wave5 13.7 49.1 65.5
- 047.tomcatv 20.8 59.3 155.9
- 048.ora 31.2 118.5 570.8
- 052.alvinn 34.0 147.3 144.0
- 056.ear 28.9 78.3 77.3
- 077.mdljsp2 14.5 32.6 32.3
- 078.swm356 13.3 39.0 339.6
- 089.su2cor 25.9 85.7 259.0
- 090.hydro2d 22.3 64.2 234.6
- 093.nasa7 27.3 59.2 81.5
- 094.fpppp 16.9 71.3 70.3
-
- geo mean 21.0 63.4 109.0
-
- The interesting results are those that show how much parallelism there
- is in some SPECfp92 codes. The CPU module is identical in the SS10 and the
- SC2000 and is a 40MHz SuperSPARC with 1 Mb external cache. The SPARCClassic
- (and the SPARCstationLX) use a 50MHz MicroSPARC.
-
- SPECrate values
-
- Machine CPU's SPECrate_int92 SPECrate_fp92
- SC2000 8 M41 8047 10600
- SC2000 4 M41 4539 5627
- SC2000 2 M41 2326 2953
- S600MP 4 Cypress 1847 1930
- SS10 1 M41 1263 1544
- SClassic 1 MicroSPARC 626 498
-
- HP 890 4 HP-PA 4301 4685
- HP 890 2 HP-PA 2253 2360
- HP 897 1 HP7100 1857 3359
-
- IBM 980 1 RS6000 1404 2960
-
- For a wider look at scalability there are results for DP Linpack 1000x1000
- using the same compiler and measuring with varying numbers of processors.
- Again this is for a single parallelised process.
-
- CPU's DP Linpack 1000x1000 MFLOPS
- 2 46.7
- 4 91.2
- 6 130.1
- 8 159.6
- 10 189.0
- 12 210.9
- 14 224.4
- 16 249.5
- 20 268.5
-
-
- For a multiuser workload there are AIM III results
-
- Machine CPUs AIM III jobs/minute
- SC2000 8 M41 1631
- SC2000 4 M41 1014
- SC2000 2 M41 570
- S600MP-140 4 Cypress 503
- SS10 1 M41 422
- SClassic 1 MicroSPARC 148
-
- Pyramid S12/12 12 1414
- Pyramid S12/8 8 1112
-
- Sequent S2000 12 1455
- Sequent S2000 8 1027
-
- IBM RS6000-970 1 489
-
- All this info comes from "SPARCcenter and SPARCserver Performance Brief"
- published November 1992. Any typo's are mine. SPEC figures may change
- slightly before being published in the SPEC newsletter.
-
- Regards Adrian
-
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- Adrian Cockcroft - adrian.cockcroft@uk.sun.com or adrian.cockcroft@sun.co.uk
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