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Oracle's SPARC T7-2 server delivered world record results on Oracle Communications ASAP. The SPARC T7-2 server ran Oracle Solaris 11 with Oracle Database 11g Release 2, Oracle WebLogic Server 12c and Oracle Communications ASAP version 7.2. Running Oracle Communications ASAP, the SPARC T7-2 server delivered a world record result of 3,018 ASDLs/sec (atomic network activation actions). Oracle's SPARC M7 processor delivered over 2.5 times the throughput per ASDL cost compared to...

Oracle's SPARC T7-1 server set a world record running the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Standard Extra-Large (250,000 Employees) Payroll (Batch) workload. The SPARC T7-1 server produced a world record result of 1,527,494 employee records processed per hour (9.82 min elapsed time) on the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 (12.1.3) Extra-Large Payroll (Batch) benchmark. The SPARC T7-1 server equipped with one 4.13 GHz SPARC M7 processor, demonstrated 36% better hourly employee...

Oracle's SPARC M7-8 server, using a four-chip Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDom) virtualized server, produced a world record 20,000 users running the Oracle E-Business OLTP X-Large benchmark.  The benchmark runs five Oracle E-Business online workloads concurrently: Customer Service, iProcurement, Order Management, Human Resources Self-Service, and Financials. The virtualized four-chip LDom on the SPARC M7-8 was able to handle more users than the previous best result which used...

Oracle's SPARC T7-1 server set a world record running the Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Standard Large (100,000 Order/Inventory Lines) Order-To-Cash (Batch) workload. The SPARC T7-1 server produced a world record hourly order line throughput of 273,973 per hour (21.90 min elapsed time) on the Oracle E-Business Suite R12 (12.1.3) Large Order-To-Cash (Batch) benchmark using a SPARC T7-1 server for the database and application tiers running Oracle Database 11g on Oracle Solaris...

Oracle's SPARC T7-2 server achieved world record performance being the first to publish on Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise Financials 9.2 benchmark.  This result was obtained using one Oracle VM Server for SPARC (LDom) virtualized system configured with a single SPARC M7 processor. The single processor LDom on the SPARC T7-2 server achieved world record performance executing 200 million Journal Lines in 18.60 minutes. The single processor LDom on the SPARC T7-2 server was able...

Oracle's SPARC T7-2 server produces a world record result for 2-processors on the SAP two-tier Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark using SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 (2 chips / 64 cores / 512 threads). The SPARC T7-2 server achieved 30,800 SAP SD benchmark users running the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark using SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0. The SPARC T7-2 server achieved 1.9 times more...

This page has been updated on November 19, 2015. The SPARC T7-1 server results have been published at www.spec.org. Oracle's SPARC T7-1 server delivered world record SPEC CPU2006 rate benchmark results for systems with one chip. This was accomplished with Oracle Solaris 11.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 software. The SPARC T7-1 server achieved world record scores of 1200 SPECint_rate2006, 1120 SPECint_rate_base2006, 832 SPECfp_rate2006, and 801 SPECfp_rate_base2006. The SPARC...

Oracle's SPARC T7-1 server using Oracle VM Server for SPARC exhibits lower network latency under virtualization.  The network latency and bandwidth were measured using the Netperf benchmark. TCP network latency between two Oracle VM Server for SPARC guests running on separate SPARC T7-1 servers each using SR-IOV is similar to that of two SPARC T7-1 servers without virtualization (native/bare metal). TCP and UDP network latencies between two Oracle VM Server for SPARC guests...

Oracle's SPARC T7-4 server delivered world record performance on the SPEC OMP2012 benchmark for systems with four chips.  This was accomplished with Oracle Solaris 11.3 and Oracle Solaris Studio 12.4 software. The SPARC T7-4 server delivered world record for systems with four chips of 27.9 SPECompG_peak2012 and 26.4 SPECompG_base2012. The SPARC T7-4 server beat the four chip HP ProLiant DL580 Gen9 with Intel Xeon Processor E7-8890 v3 by 29% on the SPECompG_peak2012 benchmark. Thi...