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2 SPARC Servers for Industry- Leading Price/Performance: Inside the Benchmarks

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Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 4 SPARC T5 Leadership: Eighteen #1’s  SPARC T5: Oracle best on Oracle throughout datacenter – SPARC T5 best at Enterprise Database – SPARC T5 best at Enterprise Java & Oracle Applications – SPARC T5 best at Cloud – best virtualization – SPARC T5 best at Analytics  SPARC – Industry’s best enterprise midrange – 2x to 3x performance vs. IBM Power7/7+ & competitive x86 servers  Innovations for Enterprise performance leadership – Leading throughput, fast single-thread, leading Software in Silicon Best performance & price/performance audited results See benchmark disclosure slide SPARC T5

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 5 SPARC’s Rapid Evolution: Faster than IBM & x86 SPARC T5 SPARC T4 SPARC T3 Enterprise performance (per chip) SPARC: over 2x performance each generation Power & x86: only ~20 to 50% each generation World’s Fastest Microprocessor Over 4x to 10x single-thread improvement Based on internal testing “You can take it as performance or as cost savings” SPARC T2+

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 6 Co-Engineered – True Silicon to App Innovation at every level, “SW in Silicon” & co-engineering lifestyle SPARC Innovate Accelerate True co-engineering puts SPARC on the fastest path to delivered enterprise performance

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 7 BestPerf Blog  blogs.oracle.com/bestperf – Best practices on all products – Postings of all public benchmarks  100+ postings per year – Performance engineer blog – Direct from engineers – Informative & solid messages – Tagged & searchable Public information on results & best practices

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 8 SPARC T5  Database benchmarks on SPARC T5  Application+Database benchmarks on SPARC T5  Database security performance  Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c  Best Practices

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 9 3TB TPC-H T5-4: Data Warehouse DB Leadership 3TB TPC-H: SPARC T5-4 is 2.1x faster than 8-chip Power7 SPARC T5: 4.3x faster per chip, 1.6x better $/perf, & faster per core than IBM SPARC T5-4 6% faster M , Over 4x better price/performance World Record Data Warehouse single-system performance 3TB TPC-Hchip,coreDatabaseQphH$/QphHAvail SPARC T5-44, 64Oracle 11g409,722$3.9409/24/13 Oracle M900064, 256Oracle 11g386,478$ /22/11 SPARC T4-44, 32Oracle 11g205,792$4.1005/31/12 IBM Power7 7808, 32Sybase192,001$6.3711/30/11 10TB TPC-Hchip,coreDatabaseQphH$/QphHAvail HP DL980 G78, 80SQLserver158,108$6.494/12/13 See benchmark disclosure slide Recently published 10TB on HP x86 (TPC does not compare different size databases)

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 10 T5-8 TPC-C Benchmark: OLTP DB Leadership World record single-system TPC-C 8,552,523 tpmC SPARC T5-8 delivers 3.1M IOPs from storage SPARC T5 2.4x faster per chip performance than IBM configuration 3-node IBM p780 (24 total chips at 10.3M), Oracle has 2.5x better $/tpmC SPARC T5 5x better response time than IBM p780 cluster (New Order 90%) World Record OLTP single-system performance See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 11 SPARC T5 OLAP – OLAP Leadership  Oracle OLAP 4 Billion-row cube – Concurrent queries with cube updates  SPARC T5-8: 2.9M queries/hr – SPARC T5-8 is 1.6x faster than 8-chip Xeon E7 ‘Westmere’ – SPARC T5-8 is 4.3x faster than SPARC T4-4  8-chip Xeon E7-4870: 1.8M queries/hour  SPARC T4-4: 0.68M queries/hour OLAP - SPARC T5 & Solaris11 Best at Analytics See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 12 SPARC T5 Virtualized DB – Leading Virtualization  Virtualized OLTP database: SPARC T5 3.2x faster database when virtualized than Xeon E5 ‘Sandy Bridge’ Customer database workload with 2 VMs Both Oracle database 11g R2 SPARC T5, Oracle VM for SPARC, & Oracle Solaris x86 2.9GHz E5-2690, leading virtualization software, & RedHat Almost no performance loss with Oracle VM for SPARC  Virtualized x86 database performance loss increases with more VMs Cloud: T5 & Oracle VM for SPARC 3.2x faster than virtualized x86 Virt 23% Loss Virt only 0.4% loss native Virt 29% Loss Virtualized database And native performance per chip See benchmark disclosure slide native

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 13 Storage Performance  Maximum IOPS delivered – Typical of Enterprise Apps – Really measures concurrency  Maximum MB/s delivered – Typical for data warehousing & ETL  Service time delivered – Usually most important for databases and hence many applications IOPS MB/Sec milliseconds

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 14 SPARC T5 Performance Fundamentals  Industry leading online & batch due to innovative chips, cores, & threads – Optimized for Real Workloads – not old benchmarks from 2006  T5-8 delivered bandwidth at every level ( IBM only list peaks ?!? ) – 3.1M IOPs delivered IO performance – Over 40 GB/s delivered IO bandwidth – 533 GB/s delivered memory bandwidth  SPARC T GB/s (3.6GHz, 4-chip, 64-core) T x faster than 4chip IBM!  SPARC M10-4S250 GB/s (3.0GHz, 4-chip, 64-core)  IBM p750 Express123 GB/s (3.3GHz, 4-chip, 24-core), no BW improvement with P7+  HP DL GB/s (2.4GHz, 8-chip, 80-core)  2ch Xeon E GB/s (2.9GHz, 2-chip, 16-core) Balanced system design is key to system performance See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 15 SPARC T5-2 SPECjbb2013 Multi-JVM  SPARC T5 1.9x faster than HP E  SPARC T5 2.23x faster than HP E  IBM Power7+ only publishes SPECjbb2005, SPEC retiring old benchmark in July 2013 World Record 2-chip on new realistic enterprise Java benchmark Xeon E7 Westmere Xeon E Sandy Bridge SPECjbb2013 per-chip SPARC T5 1.9x faster HP x86 SPARC T5 SPARC T4 See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 16 T5-8 SPECjEnterprise: Enterprise Java Leadership  SPARC T5-8 virtualized at 27, EjOPs – SPARC T5 is 2.6x faster than IBM’s Power7+  Oracle’s price/performance advantage – SPARC T x better server $/perf  Power 780 = $835k, T5-8 = $297k – SPARC T x better HW+SW $/perf than 780  Also beats PowerLinux 7R2 $/perf (2x 2-chips) Disproves that per-core performance gives best TCO World Record virtualized (1 server: 1VM for App & 1VM for DB) See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 17 SPARC T5 Oracle JD Edwards – Batch Leadership  #1 Oracle JD Edwards DIL benchmark  SPARC T5: 2.7x faster per chip than IBM Power7 on concurrent batch – SPARC T5-2 (2-chip) long & short batch stream at 880 UBE/min – IBM Power 770 (4-chip) batch 643 UBE/min – Cisco B200 (2-chip) batch 546 UBE/min  SPARC T5 2.7x faster per core than Power7 World Record batch-only, SPARC T5-2 beats IBM Power chip See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 18 Summary of SPARC’s Rapid Evolution SPARC T5 SPARC T4 SPARC T3 IBM Power7 Sandy Bridge Xeon E5 Enterprise performance (per chip) SPARC: over 2x performance each generation (note: SPARC T4 had 4x increase in single-thread perf) x86: only ~20 to 50% each generation Power7+ only ~10% in 3 years. Power7+ ~= P7 Westmere Xeon E7 IBM Power7+ Nehalem All results based on internal testing “You can take it as performance or as cost savings”

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 19 Oracle Solaris 11 & SPARC T5/M5: End-to-End Security  SPARC T5 faster than x86 (Xeon E ’Sandy Bridge’) : – Database queries on SPARC T5 deliver near-cleartext perf on 4.2GB/s storage – AES-CFB, CBC, CCM, GCM over 3.4x faster than x86 – ZFS encrypted filesystem on T5 over 3.9x faster vs. x86 – 10GbE SSL network efficiency: T5 uses 30% for Xeon E5  IBM Power7+ has inefficient 1 st generation HW/SW crypto interface – 3 HW accelerators shared by 8 Power7+ cores, lacks critical AES-CFB mode SPARC T5 & M5 have same security hardware Oracle Applications Oracle Applications Weblogic SOAP SSL Oracle Database Oracle Database SSL Unified Key Management IPsec (VPN) SSL ZFS Files Tablespaces See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 20 SPARC T5 Filesystem Crypto: Near-Cleartext Speed  SPARC T5 3.4x faster than Xeon E5 ‘Sandy Bridge’ (AES-NI) GCM – Sandy Bridge encryption performance is 3 times slower than cleartext – SPARC T5 ZFS encryption uses Oracle's Solaris 11 Cryptographic Framework Encryption system on Oracle Solaris GCM MB/S See benchmark disclosure slide

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 21 Oracle’s Solaris Scaling  Near-linear scaling now extends to 1000’s of threads – For smaller this means extremely efficient Operating Systems  Oracle Solaris has proven its ability to run at full utilization – One can feel secure that servers will run at peak loads without issues 19-years of near-perfect scaling 64-way Near-Linear Scaling Led Industry In 1993!

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 22 Oracle’s Solaris 11 – Manageability Performance  Oracle’s Solaris 11 optimizations speed updates to the operating system – Oracle’s Solaris is 3.9x faster than RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.1 – Red Hat doesn't support upgrades across major releases only minor releases Image Packaging System (IPS) – Faster operating system updates

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 23 Total Systems Management Total Systems and SPARC IaaS Monitoring & Observability Ops Center 12c Unified management of Servers, Storage, and Network Fabric Simplified management of virtual infrastructure for easy consolidation Instant Network & Storage provisioning Automated update of all firmware and software components Direct connection to Oracle knowledge- base speeds problem resolution

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 24 Simplifying Virtualization Management Making VM Management, Manageable Ops Center 12c Dynamic Discovery of Topology Relationship and Configuration Performance Trending of Virtualization Layer Stop/Start Life Cycle Control

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 25 Consolidated View Of Events Across the Stack Monitor and Manage the SPARC Servers and Applications as a Single Entity EMCC Incident Manager

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 26 Improving Your Database Performance  Highest Performing Databases – Logwriter  High-load systems Isolate Logwriter processes  Make sure redo logs disks are efficient  Increase priority of lgwr, if possible – Large pages available on SPARC T5/T5/M5 – I/O card layout for T5  Spreading across PCI-E busses is better in general  Applications – Recompile targeted for T4/T5, if possible – Oracle Solaris Studio 12.3 or later for T4/T5/M5-specific code generation

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 27 Conclusion: SPARC & Oracle Solaris  Oracle #1 in real-world performance – Complete datacenter – Oracle runs Oracle best – SPARC T5 performs best on complex workloads because of design  blogs.oracle.com/bestperf - benchmarks/best practices details   Consolidation ratios better on SPARC/Solaris than VMware – VMware’s performance losses and overheads multiply to hurt consolidation ratios – Dynamically change resources on-the-fly with Dynamic Reconfiguration – Oracle’s better consolidation ratios mean less Hardware and less SW licenses  Oracle Solaris: unmatched reliability, security & scalability – Oracle Solaris has Near-linear speedup even on complex workloads – Unique features: ZFS, Zones, DTrace, predictive self healing

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 28 Required Benchmark Disclosure Statement  Copyright 2013, Oracle &/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle & Java are registered trademarks of Oracle &/or its affiliates.Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners..  TPC Benchmark C, tpmC, and TPC-C are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). SPARC T5-8 (8/128/1024) with Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning, 8,552,523 tpmC, $0.55 USD/tpmC, available 9/25/2013, New Order 90th% Response Time 0.410sec. IBM Power 780 Cluster (24/192/768) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 10,366,254 tpmC, $1.38 USD/tpmC, available 10/13/2010, New Order 90th% Response Time 2.10 sec. IBM x3850 X5 (4/40/80) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 3,014,684 tpmC, $0.59 USD/tpmC, available 7/11/2011. IBM x3850 X5 (4/32/64) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 2,308,099 tpmC, $0.60 USD/tpmC, available 5/20/2011. IBM Flex x240 (2/16/32) with DB2 ESE 9.7, 1,503,544 tpmC, $0.53 USD/tpmC, available 8/16/2012. IBM Power 780 (2/8/32) with IBM DB2 9.5, 1,200,011 tpmC, $0.69 USD/tpmC, available 10/13/2010. Source: results as of 3/26/2013.  SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from as of 3/26/2013. SPARC T5-8, 57, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; SPARC T4-4, 40, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Sun Server X2-8, 27, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Cisco UCS B440 M2, 26, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780, 16, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. IBM PowerLinux 7R2, 13, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. SPARC T SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. SPARC T5-8 (SPARC T5-8 Server base package, 8xSPARC T5 16-core processors, 128x16GB-1066 DIMMS, 2x600GB 10K RPM 2.5. SAS-2 HDD, 4x Power Cables) List Price $268,742. IBM Power 780 (IBM Power 780:9179 Model MHB, 8x3.86GHz 16-core, 64x one processor activation, 4xCEC Enclosure with IBM Bezel, I/O Backplane and System Midplane,16x 0/32GB DDR3 Memory (4x8GB) DIMMS-1066MHz Power7 CoD Memory, 12x Activation of 1 GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 5x Activation of 100GB DDR3 Power7 Memory, 1x Disk/Media Backplane. 2x 146.8GB SAS 15K RPM 2.5. HDD (AIX/Linux only), 4x AC Power Supply 1725W) List Price $992,023. Source: Oracle.com and IBM.com, collected 03/18/2013. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from as of 5/1/2013. SPARC T5-8, 27, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780, 10, SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. Oracle server only hardware list price is $298,494 and total hardware plus software list price is $1,565,092 as of 4/24/2013. IBM server only HW list price is $835,555 and HW+SW cost of $2,174, and BM PowerLinux 7R2 server total hardware plus software cost of $819, based on public pricing from as of 4/24/2013.  SPEC & the benchmark name SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). Results as of 3/26/2013, see for more information. SPARC T5-2 75,658 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 23,334 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Sun Server X2-4 65,211 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 22,057 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Sun Server X3-2 41,954 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 13,305 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. SPARC T ,804 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 10,101 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP ProLiant DL560p Gen8 66,007 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 16,577 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP ProLiant ML350p Gen8 40,047 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 12,308 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Supermicro X8DTN+ 20,977 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 6,188 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. HP ProLiant ML310e Gen8 12,315 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 2,908 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Intel R1304BT 6,198 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 1,722 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS, HP DL980 G7 106,141 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS. Must be in SPARC T5 & M5 Presos with Benchmark Results (1 of 2)

Copyright © 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. 29 Required Benchmark Disclosure Statement  Copyright 2013, Oracle &/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle & Java are registered trademarks of Oracle &/or its affiliates.Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners..  Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application benchmarks SAP Enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 3/26/13:SPARC M5-32 (32 processors, 192 cores, 1536 threads) 85,050 SAP SD users, 32 x 3.6 GHz SPARC M5, 4 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# SPARC T5-8 (8 processors, 128 cores, 1024 threads) 40,000 SAP SD users, 8 x 3.6 GHz SPARC T5, 2 TB memory, Oracle Database 11g, Oracle Solaris 11, Cert# IBM Power 760 (8 processors, 48 cores, 192 threads) 25,488 SAP SD users, 8 x 3.41 GHz IBM POWER7+, 1024 GB memory, DB2 10, AIX 7.1, Cert# Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application benchmarks SAP Enhancement package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 as of 4/30/12:IBM Power 795 (32 processors, 256 cores, 1024 threads) 126,063 SAP SD users, 32 x 4 GHz IBM POWER7, 4 TB memory, DB2 9.7, AIX7.1, Cert# SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 processors, 256 cores, 512 threads) 32,000 SAP SD users, 64 x 2.88 GHz SPARC64 VII, 1152 GB memory, Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Solaris 10, Cert# SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries. More info  SPEC & benchmark names SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of March 26, 2013 from and this report. SPARC T5-8: 3750 SPECint_rate2006, 3490 SPECint_rate_base2006, 3020 SPECfp_rate2006, 2770 SPECfp_rate_base2006; SPARC T5-1B: 467 SPECint_rate2006, 436 SPECint_rate_base2006, 369 SPECfp_rate2006, 350 SPECfp_rate_base2006. IBM Power chip 3.92GHz: 2640 SPECint_rate2006. IBM Power 710 Express 1-chip 3.556GHz: 289 SPECint_rate2006.  TPC-H, QphH, $/QphH are trademarks of Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). For more information, see results as of 6/7/13. SPARC T , available 9/24/13, 4 processors, 64 cores, 512 threads; SPARC T , available 5/31/12, 4 processors, 32 cores, 256 threads; SPARC Enterprise M , available 9/22/11, 64 processors, 256 cores, 256 threads; SPARC Enterprise M , available 12/9/10, 32 processors, 128 cores, 128 threads; IBM Power , available 11/30/11, 8 processors, 32 cores, 128 threads; HP ProLiant DL980 G7 162, available 10/13/10, 8 processors, 64 cores, 128 threads. ; HP ProLiant DL980 G7 158,108 available 4/15/13, 8 processors, 80 cores, 160 threads. Must be in SPARC T5 & M5 Presos with Benchmark Results (2 of 2)

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