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SPARC Server T5/M6
Vincent Luo
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Agenda
Oracle SPARC Hardware Strategy
– Benefits of the Integrated Hardware and Software Stack
SPARC and Oracle Solaris
– Leading Performance for all Enterprise Applications
– Designed for Cloud Computing: Efficiency, Availability, Security
– Innovative Product Portfolio and Roadmap
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The Unique Oracle Advantage Hardware and Software Engineered to Work Together
vs
One Engineering Team
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Investment in Core Technology
PROCESSORS SOFTWARE BANDWIDTH SYSTEMS
SPARC microprocessors
are the fastest in the world,
and continue to lead the
industry into the multi-core
era
Oracle Solaris is the
leading enterprise cloud
OS, many years ahead in
scalability and reliability
SPARC servers reach
incredible scale inside
the server, or outside,
through leading-edge
InfiniBand technology
Oracle’s portfolio today
has the performance and
price / performance
advantage, and offers
breakthrough virtualization
for business critical
applications
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Accelerate Business Processes
– Best Performance
– No overhead for critical IT infrastructure tools
Reduce Operational Expense
– One Core Technology
– One Operating System
– One Virtualization Tool
– One System Management tool
Reduce Capital Expense
– Low Hardware Acquisition Cost
– Critical IT Infrastructure tools built-in
SPARC Innovation Focused on Customer Concerns
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The Oracle Systems Advantage
LEADERSHIP
#1 Fastest Processor
#1 Operating System for Cloud
#1 Engineered Systems
#1 In-memory processing
#1 Fastest database server
#1 Fastest Java server
Better Value from the Complete Stack of Hardware and Software
STRATEGY
Develop together a full hardware and
software stack: database, middleware
and application software
Optimized operating system and
processors to run Oracle’s database
and Java software better and faster
Engineered Systems: the ultimate
demonstration of the value of the
integration
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Industry Leaders Run SPARC Solaris Servers
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Leading Performance for all Enterprise Applications
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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 and $/performance on audited results
See benchmark disclosure slide
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SPARC T5 l Built for Oracle Database
Large Page support up to 2GB
Dynamically Threaded Core
supporting 1-8 Threads
On-Chip Crypto acceleration
VM 2.0 Memory Predictor
Scheduler assigning key DB
threads to critical HW thread
Optimized Shared Memory
Solaris Cryptographic Framework
8x faster Database startup/shutdown
No downtime for SGA resizing
Zero Overhead Data Encryption
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Oracle T5-8
Solaris
IBM P780 3 Node Cluster
AIX
10,366,254
$1.38 $/tpmC 8,552,523
$.55 $/tpmC tpmC
Oracle
Advantage
Fastest
Server for
Database
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SPARC T5 l Built for Oracle Middleware
Pause instruction for Java busy wait/lock contention
Fused compare & branch accelerates tight loops in Java
Large page support for up to 2GB page size
On-Chip Encryption Acceleration
Latency groups and JVM keeps
Java objects in local memory
Solaris DTrace probes
Out of the box large memory
support for JVM
Integrated Java and native
development tools
Java Mission Control profiles Java runtime
environment to monitor, manage multiple
JVM instances & eliminate memory leaks
Zero Overhead encrypting Java data
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IBM P780 AIX
Oracle T5-8
Solaris
12X
Advantage
over IBM
16,646 EjOPs 57,422
$990,000 $270,000
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Oracle Solaris 11.1
Best for Oracle Deployments
Built for Cloud Infrastructures
#1 for Enterprise Applications
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* See substantiation slides
Oracle Optimized Solutions Leadership
WebCenter Content
11x faster vs. x86
servers
Oracle Unified
Directory
3x greater scale
WebLogic Server
3.6x lower TCA/3.4x Perf than
IBM Power 780
Middleware
Data Management
SAP
Up to 7x faster queries
PeopleSoft HCM
11x faster, ½ the cost of IBM
Oracle E-Business Suite
2x lower TCO vs. IBM Enterprise
Applications
Backup and Recovery
5x less cost & faster vs.
Symantec
Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure
2x better TCO than IBM/PowerVM
Core Systems Infrastructure
WebCenter Portal
38% lower TCA vs..
IBM
Agile PLM
36% lower TCA vs. IBM
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne
3.5x faster vs. IBM
Siebel CRM
Up to 3x lower TCO vs.IBM
Enterprise Database Cloud
4x better $/perf vs. IBM
Lifecycle Content Management
2.5x better TCO over EMC
Oracle Database
Replace IBM for 2.6x TCO
Savings
Tiered Storage Infrastructure
73% lower cost vs. EMC tiered
disk
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Innovative Portfolio
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Oracle: Re-engineering Systems Economics
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Near Linear Pricing
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T5-4
$147,992
T5-8
$268,314
M6-32
$1,209,943
T5-2
$67,042
IBM Power 750 POWER7+ $204,982
IBM Power 780 POWER7+ $2,101,370
IBM Power 795 POWER7
$5,403,472
IBM Power 740 POWER7+ $101,571
2 Socket 4 Socket 8 Socket 32 Socket
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SPARC T5 The World’s Fastest Microprocessor
#1 TPC-C: fastest database server
#1 SPECjbb 2013: fastest Java server
#1 SPECjEnterprise 2010: fastest middleware server
#1 SPEC CPU 2006: fastest raw processor performance
#1 SAP-SD: fastest SAP 8-processor server
#1 Siebel: fastest CRM server 17+
WORLD
RECORD
BENCHMARKS
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Balanced system
Hundreds of GB/s I/O bandwidth
More than a hundred cores
More than a thousand threads
Terabytes of memory
Runs any application
Built-in highly scalable
virtualization
SPARC T5 Servers: A New Set of Goals
T5-8
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Extreme performance
– 2X the processor cores than its predecessor
– 2X the throughput
– In memory Oracle data base queries 7X faster
Highest efficiency: built-in, no-cost virtualization
– Flexible physical and logical system partitioning
– Continuous availability design to eliminate downtime
– All of your existing apps just run, faster
Best for in-memory computing
– 2X more memory per processor of any datacenter server
– Terabytes per second of memory bandwidth
Oracle Introduces the SPARC M6-32 Server
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Powered By Oracle Processor Technology SPARC M6: Higher Density and Lower Cost / Core
New: 12 S3 cores @ 3.6GHz
Large 48MB shared L3 Cache
Scalable to 32 processors
Integrated 2x8 PCIe 3.0
Integrated ISA-based crypto
acceleration
4.1 Tbps total link bandwidth
2X THROUGHPUT
PERFORMANCE
OF M5
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Unprecedented Performance and Scalability M6 Big Memory Machine: Terabyte Scale Computing
Best platform for in-memory computing 32 TERABYTE SYSTEM MEMORY
3 TERABYTES
PER SECOND
SYSTEM
BANDWIDTH
1.4 TERABYTES
PER SECOND
MEMORY
BANDWIDTH
1 TERABYTE
PER SECOND
I/O
BANDWIDTH
384 cores, 3,072 threads, virtualization built in:
deploy any size workload
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Building on Oracle Innovation Oracle’s M6 Big Memory Machine
Designed for Mission Critical Computing
Expandable to run any size application, with In-Memory processing
Common technologies across Oracle’s server product line
– High throughput of Oracle’s SPARC S3 processor core
– Built-in, zero overhead virtualization
– Common systems management across all Oracle servers
– Best Enterprise Cloud OS: Solaris 11
Leading RAS capabilities
– Extensive RAS and Solaris Fault Management Architecture
– Redundancy of major components
– Hot plug replace or upgrade of key components
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Accelerate Database Performance
Game changing performance
advantage on database
queries when using big
memory
Oracle’s Big Memory Advantage
>7X PERFORMANCE BOOST
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SPARC M6-32: Mission-Critical Proven
Investment Protection
Existing apps just run
Mix M5 and M6 processors
Built in Virtualization
No cost & zero overhead
Comprehensive management tools
Flexible, dynamic I/O capability
Eliminate Downtime for Higher Efficiency
Highest Uptime
Containment and isolation of
hardware faults, that can be
repaired live
Redundancy of critical
components
Redundancy of I/O paths to
network and storage devices
Phone home alerts
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Zero Overhead Virtualization
Maximize utilization
– More applications
– More business users
– More production and test
environments
Unique innovation
– Zero overhead
– Electrically isolated dynamic
domains (M6)
– Integrated, hardware assisted
encryption
Built-in, no cost
Increase Utilization and Performance
Oracle M6
Dynamic Domain Dynamic Domain
Oracle VM Oracle VM Oracle VM
10
Solaris Legacy
Zone
Solaris 10
Zone
11
Solaris 10
Zone
Solaris 11
Zone
Solaris 11
Zone
Only Oracle Provides
This Level of Virtualization
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Best Enterprise Portfolio
T4-1B
T4-1
T4-2
T4-4
T5-1B
T5-2
T5-4 SuperCluster T5-8 and M6-32
Exalytics T5-8
Entry-Level Mid-Range High-End Engineered Systems
M6-32, M5-32
T5-8
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Oracle Engineered Systems
Servers, storage, and networking engineered together with software
Massive memory footprint for in-memory computing
Ideal architecture for cloud computing
and consolidation
The Foundation for the Cloud
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Oracle SuperCluster M6-32 Oracle’s Fastest and Most Scalable Engineered Systems
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Compute
Storage
Software
Networking
+
+
The best system for
running databases
and applications in
memory
Most scalable
system for
consolidation and
cloud services
Secure multi-tenant
virtualization SuperCluster T5-8
SuperCluster M6-32
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Exalytics T5-8 In-Memory System for Business Analytics
4TB of Memory, 128 cores
3TB Flash
Rich, Interactive User Experience
Offloads Analytics from Database
Consolidates Analytical Applications
20X Faster Analytic Response
3X More Mobile Users
6X Faster Financial Planning Results
6X Users Supported
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The Engineered Systems Advantage
5X Faster Time to
Revenue
DEPLOYMENT
10X Faster Database
and Applications
PERFORMANCE
10X Less Time for
Patching
AVAILABILITY
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Designed for Efficiency
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Oracle Solaris 11 Reliable. Scalable. Efficient. Secure.
Solaris 11
Highly Available, Secure
Platform for Enterprise Apps
Predictive self healing
ZFS data integrity
Low overhead snapshots
End to end encryption
Application Clustering
Compliance reporting
DTrace observability
Large-scale Cloud
Management
Zero overhead Server,
Storage, Network
virtualization
Immutable zones
Fast, fail safe
life cycle management
Comprehensive cloud
management solution Mission Critical Meets Cloud
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Oracle VM Server for SPARC The Virtualization Platform combining the best of Oracle Solaris and
SPARC for Your Enterprise Server Workloads
Isolated OS and applications in each
logical (or virtual) domain
Firmware-based hypervisor
Each logical domain runs in dedicated CPU thread(s)
T-Series Server
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
Database Domain
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
Database Domain
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
Database Domain
Oracle Solaris 10
Oracle Solaris 11
Database Domain
GP Domain GP Domain GP Domain GP Domain
SPARC Hypervisor
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Oracle virtualization has
the best consolidation
ratios
Native Workload Performance in VMs Superior Efficiency Over x86 and Power
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oss %
(4 V
M)
Other RISC Platform
Leading x86
Hypervisor
Solaris 11 OVM for SPARC
Virtualization Overhead
PERFORMANCE
LOSS
0%
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Complete End-to-End System Management
Common Management tool for all SPARC
systems
Provides complete resource management
– Deploy and manage virtual machines and domains
– Obtain Operating System analytics and identify
opportunities for improvement
– Manage system configurations, including remote
telemetry
– Perform maintenance, including Health Checks,
Phone Home
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SPARC Roadmap
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SPARC @ Oracle
2010 2011 2012
SPARC T3 16 S2 cores 128 Threads
40 nm technology
1.65 GHz
SPARC T4 8 S3 Cores 64 Threads
40nm Technology
3.0 GHz
SPARC T5 16 S3 Cores
28nm Technology
3.6 GHz
5 Processors in 4 Years
SPARC M5 6 S3 Cores, 48MB $
28nm Technology
3.6 GHz
2012
SPARC M6 12 S3 Cores 48MB $
28nm Technology
3.6 GHz
2013
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ACQUIRE
2010
FOCUS
2011
COMPETE
2012
ACCELERATE
2013
IBM
SPARC T3
SPARC T-Series
SPARC T4
SPARC
x86
Investing in Systems Leadership
Oracle 100% performance
each generation
IBM Power & x86 30–50% performance
each generation
X86 & IBM:
incremental
improvements
Oracle doubling
System-level
performance
every 2 years
Next
Generation
Oracle
SPARC
Processors
OPTIMIZE
FUTURE
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ACQUIRE
2010
FOCUS
2011
COMPETE
2012
ACCELERATE
2013
Investing in Systems Leadership
IBM
SPARC T3
SPARC T-Series
SPARC T4
SPARC
x86
IBM
SPARC T3
SPARC T-Series
SPARC T4
SPARC
x86
Oracle 100% performance
each generation
IBM Power & x86 30–50% performance
each generation
Oracle 100% performance
each generation
IBM Power & x86 30–50% performance
each generation
OPTIMIZE
FUTURE
M7/T7
M8/T8
M7/T7
– Running in lab now
– Deep Software in Silicon
– Step function in
performance
M8/T8
– Improved core
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The Ultimate Software Optimization: Hardware Moving Oracle Database & Java Software Functions into Hardware
Database Query Acceleration
Application Data Protection
Java Acceleration
Data Decompression
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Oracle SPARC Systems Direction Increase Application Performance 2x Every Two Years
Lead Mission Critical computing
Embed Oracle-specific enhancements
Design the best servers in the world. Period.
Not just about servers: Integrate into Engineered
Systems
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Customer Sucess
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Oracle’s T5 and T4 are Winning with Customers Delivering Exceptional Customer Value
12:1 Consolidation Ratio,
with Payback in 2.5 Years
Proven track record of 4-5x
higher diagnosis and
resolution of issues
Near zero cost/risk
application migration
U.S. Wireless
Provider
8x price/performance
advantage over IBM Pure Flex
4x higher performance per
core
1.3x better application
response times
Banking Software
Vendor, Europe
22:1 consolidation ratio
10X storage cell performance
and payroll processing results
Redeployed Linux system
admins, kept 1 Solaris admin
US National
Research Institution
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US Wireless Provider 12:1 Consolidation Ratio, with Payback in 2.5 Years
• 30 x SPARC T5-8’s, 15 x SPARC T5-4’s
• Oracle Solaris 10, Oracle VM Server for SPARC, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center 12c
• Oracle WebLogic
• IBM Websphere, Apache
• Proven track record of 4-5x higher diagnosis and resolution of issues;
• Near zero cost/risk application migration
• Performance, Scalability, Security
• Modern Cloud Deployment, Self provisioning
• Integration between Oracle Solaris, Oracle DB, Java other Oracle SW
• Top US Wireless Provider, operating around 8,000 servers
• Implemented a virtualized pre-production environment, with continuous hardware refresh to ensure adequate headroom as service expand
• Refresh and consolidate a web services cloud and prepare for future growth
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
• HP Proliant x86 servers and blades
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Banking Software Vendor, Europe Better price/performance for Core Banking
• SPARC T5-4
• Oracle Database, Oracle WebLogic
• 8x price/performance advantage over IBM Pure Flex
• 6x performance increase based on utilization
• 4x higher performance per core
• 4x additional agents supported
• 1.3x better application response times
• Leading European ISV for Banking Application software
• Requirement to reduce data center costs and consolidate platforms
• Minimize risk and complexity by leveraging Oracle Solaris operating system
• Characterize SPARC T5 as their new mid-range system for Core Banking applications
• Replace IBM Pure Flex POWER7 with SPARC T5 servers for higher performance and better response times
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US National Research Institution 10X faster data operations for Customer Billing System
• SPARC SuperCluster, Oracle Solaris 11, Oracle VM Server for SPARC
• Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3, Oracle Database 11gR2, Oracle PeopleSoft
• 22:1 consolidation ratio
• 10X storage cell performance and payroll processing results key to decision
• Redeployed Linux system admins, kept 1 Solaris admin
• 25% less power consumption
• Research Institution for defense and applied sciences
• 500+ programs contracted by other agencies and institutions
• Need to update unmanageable complex, multi-vendor architecture
• Highly visible platform performance issue for Oracle E-Business Suite resulted in loss of business due to challenges with invoicing
• Replaced complex, multivendor Linux / HP x86 environment
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Oracle’s M5 is Winning with Customers Delivering Exceptional Customer Value
10X faster business analytics
3x faster claims processing
“Applications just run” –
binary compatibility allowed
for rapid deployment into
production
U.S. Government
Agency
>$6M 5 year OPEX savings
4X improvement in
performance
Massive consolidation and
88% less data center floor
space
Financial Services
Company, Middle East
Large savings from ERP
system consolidation and
achieved higher service levels
Exceptional price performance
over competition
Oil and Gas Company,
Latin America
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US Government Agency Higher Scalability and Efficiency vs. X86-Based Alternative
• Large Federal Agency and healthcare organization in the U.S.
• Refresh of legacy systems responsible for supporting corporate applications and Performance Integrity and Assurance (PA&I) EDW.
• Establish SPARC install base and Solaris as the mission critical platform vs. a x86/VMWare alternative.
• Virtualized x86 servers running RedHat Linux or Windows
• 3 x SPARC M5-32’s: Production internal apps, Production EDW and Disaster Recovery
• 4 x SPARC T4-4’s Oracle OBIEE software
• 2 x SPARC T4-4’s Oracle Tuxedo
• Reliability, scalability and peformance of SPARC and Solaris
• Solaris backward binary compatiblity
• Extreme value for mission critical servers responsible for supporting the backbone applications needed to process Veterans claims.
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Large Financial Services Co., Middle East $6M in OPEX savings and ROI in 24 months
• Transforming banking infrastructure to reduce data center costs and operate more efficiently
• Consolidating Internet Banking and Corporate applications
• Migrating and consolidating Oracle Databases and Siebel applications from different IBM systems (Power5, Mainframe) and on Windows OS
• Migrating from legacy SPARC systems: 3x Sun Fire 25K servers, 3x Sun Fire 6900 and ~50 midrange systems
• Modernizing infrastructure from 1Gig Ethernet to 10Gig Ethernet
• Deploy 3 SPARC M5-32’s, with Oracle Solaris 11:
• Accelerating Oracle Database encryption
• Virtualization, fast reboot, resource management
• Dynamic resizing of Oracle DB memory resources
• Oracle Virtual Networking Family
• 4x current online transaction performance at 1/8 of the data center footprint
• Cut the number of compute cores by 50% while increasing system utilization
• Reduced database encryption overhead
• 92% reduction in infrastructure complexity
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Oil and Gas Company, Latin America Consolidation & Refresh for SAP Environment
• One of the largest Oil and Gas companies in Latin America.
• With the new SPARC Servers and the Engineered Systems, Oracle is becoming the platform of choice
• Refresh and consolidation of high end servers supporting ERP applications
• Growth of SAP environment. Huge opportunity to displace competitive footprint.
• 2 x SPARC M5-32’s, Oracle Solaris OS
• SAP applications: Processes, Accounting, Logistics and Finance
• Price/performance vs. IBM Power and HP
• RAS features sustaining a business-critical environment
• New, innovative server technology, strong roadmap
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Multi-national Mass Media Customer M5-32 8X Advantage in Price/Performance over IBM Power 795
• One of the world’s largest multi-national mass media providers of communications services
• Prove the performance of the SPARC M5-32 in their datacenter as compared to IBM Power systems
• Tests were conducted to measure cost/transaction/second to quantify business value of SPARC M5-32
• Opportunity to displace IBM Power systems based on price/performance superiority
• SPARC M5-32 delivered 8x overall advantage in price/performance over IBM Power 795
• 1.4x higher transactions per second
• 2x fewer CPU cores required for equivalent performance
• 2.4x faster response times per core based on equivalent application performance times
• 5x lower server cost based on list price
0 1 2 3 4 5
Transactions/Second
Response Time
Server Cost
SPARC M5-32
IBM 795
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Required Benchmark Disclosure Statement
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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: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc, results as of 3/26/2013.
SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjEnterprise are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 3/26/2013.
SPARC T5-8, 57,422.17 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; SPARC T4-4, 40,104.86 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Sun Server X2-8, 27,150.05 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; Cisco
UCS B440 M2, 26,118.67 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780, 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. IBM PowerLinux 7R2, 13,161.07 SPECjEnterprise2010
EjOPS. SPARC T3-4 9456.28 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 www.spec.org as of 5/1/2013. SPARC T5-8, 27,843.57 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS; IBM Power 780,
10,902.30 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. Oracle server only hardware list price is $298,494 and total hardware plus software list price is $1,565,092 http://www.oracle.com as of
4/24/2013. IBM server only HW list price is $835,555 and HW+SW cost of $2,174,152.00 and BM PowerLinux 7R2 server total hardware plus software cost of $819,451.00
based on public pricing from http://www.ibm.com 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 http://www.spec.org
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
T4-2 34,804 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, 23268 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS.
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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# 2013009. 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# 2013008. 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#2013004. 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#2010046. 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# 2009046. SAP, R/3, reg TM of SAP AG in Germany and other countries.
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SPEC & benchmark names SPECfp, SPECint are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of March 26, 2013 from
www.spec.org 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 780 8-chip 3.92GHz: 2640 SPECint_rate2006. IBM
Power 710 Express 1-chip 3.556GHz: 289 SPECint_rate2006.
TPC Benchmark, TPC-H, QphH, QthH, QppH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). Results as of 6/7/13, prices are in USD. SPARC T5-4
www.tpc.org/3288; SPARC T4-4 www.tpc.org/3278; SPARC Enterprise M9000 www.tpc.org/3262; SPARC Enterprise M9000 www.tpc.org/3258; IBM Power 780
www.tpc.org/3277; HP ProLiant DL980 www.tpc.org/3285.
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