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Abstract
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 demonstrates leadership enterprise class performance and performance/watt for virtualization environments with world record SPECvirt_sc2013 results.
This document summarizes the the SPECvirt_sc2013 benchmark result for the ThinkSystem SR950 that was published on September 13, 2018. The document lists the result, summarizes the major components of the configuration under test, and provides the link to the relevant benchmark organization’s web site for details about the result.
Introduction
Lenovo delivers leadership server consolidation performance on the SPECvirt_sc2013 virtualization benchmark with the publication of the leadership 4-socket scores for all three SPECvirt_sc2013 result categories.
The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 delivered the following world record SPECvirt_sc2013 performance and performance/watt results for 4-socket server platforms:
- SPECvirt_sc2013 6388 @ 357 VMs
- SPECvirt_sc2013_ServerPPW 4.399 @ 357 VMs
- SPECvirt_sc2013_PPW 4.399 @ 357 VMs
The SR950 was configured as follows:
- 4x Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 (2.5 GHz with 38.5 MB L3 cache per processor: 4 chips/112 cores/28 cores per chip)
- 1.5 TB of memory using 48x Lenovo 32GB TruDDR4 DIMMs
- 2x ThinkSystem RAID 930-16i Adapters with 4GB flash
- 4x Intel X710-DA2 10Gb 2 Port SFP+ Ethernet Adapters
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3
This benchmark results can be found at:
- SPECvirt_sc2013 result
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2018q3/virt_sc2013-20180829-00112-perf.html - SPECvirt_sc2013_ServerPPW result
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2018q3/virt_sc2013-20180829-00112-ppws.html - SPECvirt_sc2013_PPW result
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2018q3/virt_sc2013-20180829-00112-ppw.html
Results referenced are current as of September 13, 2018. To view all SPECvirt_sc2013 results, visit
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/specvirt_sc2013_perf.html
About the ThinkSystem SR950
Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 is designed for your most demanding, mission-critical workloads, such as in-memory databases, large transactional databases, batch and real-time analytics, ERP, CRM, and virtualized server workloads.
The powerful 4U ThinkSystem SR950 can grow from two to eight Intel Xeon Scalable Family processors, and with 96 DIMM sockets, supports up to 12 TB of high-speed memory without having to replace the server enclosure or upgrade to a physically larger design. The modular design of SR950 speeds upgrades and servicing with easy front or rear access to all major subsystems to maximize server availability.
The SR950 packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density design. The SR950 offers enterprise scalability and advanced RAS features to support the most demanding mission-critical applications that require 24x7 operations. The new 4U rack optimized design reduces the space needed to support massive network computing operations and simplifies servicing.
Lenovo XClarity Controller is an all-new hardware embedded management engine common in every ThinkSystem server. XClarity Controller features an uncluttered graphical user interface, industry standard Redfish-compliant REST APIs, and enables booting in half the time of prior generation servers, with up to 6x faster firmware updates.
Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking. Via reusable patterns and policies, it ramps up and scales infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. It serves as a central integration point to extend your data center management processes to physical IT. Running XClarity Integrators in external IT applications, or integrating through REST APIs, helps you further speed services provisioning, streamline IT management, and contain costs.
About SPECvirt
SPECvirt_sc2013 is the second-generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the virtualization performance of datacenter server consolidation (SPEC VIRT), including enterprise class workloads such as virtualized SMP application server VMs and SMP database VMs, as well as dynamic workload levels across many workload types and VM instances. This benchmark suite is targeted for use by hardware vendors, virtualization software vendors, application software vendors, datacenter managers, and academic researchers.
Learn more
To learn more about power-efficient solutions for virtualization applications, please contact your Lenovo Sales Representative.
To find out more about SPEC, visit https://www.spec.org
To learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 server, visit the SR950 product web page:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/servers/mission-critical/Lenovo-ThinkSystem-SR950/p/77XX7HSSR95
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