FlashBack 1108: Cray CS6400 Breaks 100,000 SPECrate92
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From: shahin@oregon.cray.com (Shahin Khan)
The CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 (CS6400) system has broken its previous
fastest-ever records for the SPECrate92 standard benchmarks and the
100,000 rate barrier for these benchmarks with a 64- processor system,
Cray Research Superservers (CRS) announced today. The SPECrate_int92
for a 64-processor CS6400 system was measured at 101,969 and
SPECrate_fp92 at 129,843.
The CS6400 is a symmetric multi-processing system that is completely
SPARC/Solaris compliant. Systems are available with up to 16 gigabytes
of memory, more than five terabytes of online storage, and up to 64
I/O channels.
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Cray Research Superservers Announces Barrier Breaking
100,000 Rate Performance on SPECrate92 Benchmarks with
64-Processor System
CRAY SUPERSERVER 6400 Is First High-End System To Report All
Numbers For Benchmark
The CS6400 system, offered with up to 64 SuperSPARC Plus
microprocessors, is the first high-end system to run and report all the
SPECrate92 benchmarks, according to CRS officials. In June of this
year, the SPECrate Council introduced two new measures for the
benchmark -- baseline and optimized. The CS6400 system performed both
measures on the SPECrate_int92 and SPECrate_fp92 for 48-processor, 56-
processor and 64-processor system configurations. A complete chart of
performance numbers appears at the end of this release.
According to Martin Buchanan, CRS general manager, for the highest
recorded performance rate for the CS6400 system, which was on the
SPECrate_fp92 benchmark, the system had a scalability ratio of 59.4:1. This
ratio means that a little more than four processors were required for
overhead computing activity and all the remaining processors -- nearly 60
-- were focused on direct computation related to the problem, Buchanan
said.
"No other computer vendor has ever achieved this level of performance or
scalability on this benchmark -- in fact, no other computer vendor has run
this benchmark on such a large system," said Buchanan. "The scalability
ratio is an important measure for customers and prospects in choosing a
system that can grow with their organization's budgets and computing
requirements." Buchanan noted that this ratio shows how efficiently the
performance of the CS6400 system scales as processors are added.
He said that these new benchmark results confirm that the CS6400 system
is the fastest and most expandable SPARC/Solaris-compliant computer
available today.
"With these new SPECrate achievements, we now lead the industry even
outside the SPARC and Solaris world," he said.
The CS6400 system is available with 4 to 64 SuperSPARC processors at
prices starting under $400,000 (U.S.). Shipments of systems with 64
processors began in June of this year, he said. An unnamed Asian bank was
the first to install a 64-processor CS6400 system for use in financial
derivatives simulation and data management.
The CS6400 is a symmetric multi-processing system that is completely
SPARC/Solaris compliant. Systems are available with up to 16 gigabytes of
memory, more than five terabytes of online storage, and up to 64 I/O
channels.
Compilers used for the SPECrate92 benchmarks were from Apogee Software
with Kuck and Associates parallelizing pre- processor, Buchanan noted.
CRS, based here, is a subsidiary of Cray Research, Inc. (NYSE:CYR). Cray
Research provides the leading high- performance computing tools and
services to help solve customers' most challenging problems. Data
warehousing, decision support, transaction processing and multimedia
applications which challenge current technologies are the targets for Cray
Research's new line of highly scalable CS6400 systems.
The chart below gives detailed SPECrate performance information for the
CS6400 system.
Benchmark # of Processors Rating Scalability
SPECrate_base_int92 48 75,275 43.5:1
56 82,851 47.9:1
64 92,844 54.7:1
SPECrate_int92 48 82,522 41.7:1
56 95,262 48.1:1
64 101,969 51.5:1
SPECrate_base_fp92 48 95,943 47.0:1
56 109,477 53.6:1
64 122,061 59.8:1
SPECrate_fp92 48 102,235 46.7:1
56 115,802 53.0:1
64 129,843 59.4:1
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