December 09, 2005
Sun Microsystems claims that it has achieved a record-breaking data warehousing performance TPC-H SF10000 benchmark result with the Sun Fire E25K UltraSPARC IV+ system and the Oracle Database 10g Release 2, outperforming recent benchmark results from HP and IBM. Sun also claimed a record-breaking performance SPECjbb2005 benchmark result with the Sun Fire E6900 UltraSPARC IV+ system which eclipsed newly announced SPECjbb2005 result from IBM based on a comparably priced Power5 system. Sun achieved a SPECjbb2005 result of 248,075 business operations per second (bops), which beats the performance of the POWER5 IBM eServer p5 570 16-way SPECjbb2005 result of 244,361 bops.
The Sun Fire E25K system's record surpassed a HP Integrity Superdome cluster by 25 percent, and an IBM POWER5-based cluster by over 4 percent on the TPC-H 10 terabyte benchmark. The 72-way 1.5 Ghz UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire E25K system with 108 Sun StorEdge SE3510 arrays running the industry-leading Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 resulted in 108,099.7 QphH@10000GB, at a price-performance ratio of $53.80/QphH@10000GB (OK - mbp), with the TPC-H SF10000 benchmark.
With Solaris 10, Sun's multi-platform, open source OS, and new Sun Studio 11 software compilers, the E25K is optimized for performance and throughput maximization. The system was able to deliver 20 GB/sec of I/O bandwidth.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council's (TPC) TPC-H benchmark measures systems' capability to examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. TPC-H evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) and a price/performance metric ($/QphH@size) that measure the performance of various decision support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions.
SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of a Java implemented application tier (server-side Java) based on the order processing in a wholesale supplier application. It also measures the performance of CPUs, caches, memory hierarchy and the scalability of shared memory processors (SMPs). The metrics given are number of bops (business operations per second) and bops/Java Virtual Machine.
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Today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzing, Germany, Jack Dongarra presented on a proposed benchmark that could carry a bit more weight than its older Linpack companion. The high performance conjugate gradient (HPCG) concept takes into account new architectures for new applications, while shedding the floating point....
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Not content to let the Tianhe-2 announcement ride alone, Intel rolled out a series of announcements around its Knights Corner and Xeon Phi products--all of which are aimed at adding some options and variety for a wider base of potential users across the HPC spectrum. Today at the International Supercomputing Conference, the company's Raj....
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Supercomputer architectures have evolved considerably over the last 20 years, particularly in the number of processors that are linked together. One aspect of HPC architecture that hasn't changed is the MPI programming model.
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The world's largest supercomputers, like Tianhe-2, are great at traditional, compute-intensive HPC workloads, such as simulating atomic decay or modeling tornados. But data-intensive applications--such as mining big data sets for connections--is a different sort of workload, and runs best on a different sort of computer.
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Jun 18, 2013 |
Researchers are finding innovative uses for Gordon, the 285 teraflop supercomputer housed at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) that has a unique Flash-based storage system. Since going online, researchers have put the incredibly fast I/O to use on a wide variety of workloads, ranging from chemistry to political science.
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Jun 17, 2013 |
The advent of low-power mobile processors and cloud delivery models is changing the economics of computing. But just as an economy car is good at different things than a full size truck, an HPC workload still has certain computing demands that neither the fastest smartphone nor the most elastic cloud cluster can fulfill.
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Jun 14, 2013 |
For all the progress we've made in IT over the last 50 years, there's one area of life that has steadfastly eluded the grasp of computers: understanding human language. Now, researchers at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) are utilizing a Hadoop cluster on its Longhorn supercomputer to move the state of the art of language processing a little bit further.
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