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SAS Performance on SPARC T4 + Solaris: Customer experience performance study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Edmond Cheng, Economist, Bureau of Labor Statistics Steven Holmes, UNIX Systems Administrator, G&B Solutions

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Industry Employment

Operation and Business Process

SAS Solutions and Others

SAS Base 9.2

SAS AppDev Studio

SAS/ACCESS

SAS/Connect

SAS/ETS

SAS/Graph

SAS/IML

SAS/IntrNet

SAS/Share

SAS/STAT

SAS® Business Intelligence

SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3

SAS Enterprise Guide BI Server

Data Integration Server

Metadata Server

Microsoft Office Integration

Others

Oracle Servers

SPARC T4-2 SERVER

Processor

• Eight-core 2.85GHz SPARC T4 processor

• Two processors per system, maximum 128

threads

• Eight floating-point units

• Dual multithreaded 10 GbE PCI integrated onto

chip

Performance Test Servers Baselines

Server Model Linux Lab Linux HP

Blade

Sun Fire

T5240

SPARC

Enterprise

M3000

SPARC

T4-2

Operating

System

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux Server

release 6.3

(Santiago)

Red Hat

Enterprise

Linux Server

release 6.3

(Santiago)

Solaris 10 Solaris 10 Solaris 10

Processor Intel Xeon

E5430 CPU

Intel Xeon

X5550

UltraSPARC

T2+

SPARC64

VII

SPARC T4

Specs 2 CPU,

2.66Ghz,

quad core

2 CPU,

2.66Ghz,

quad core

2 CPUs, 1.2

GHz, 6-core

1 CPU,

2.75 GHz,

quad-core

2 CPU

2.85 GHz,

8-core

Thread 8 8 96 8 128

Ram 14GB 16GB 16GB 32GB 128GB

SAS Version 9.2 9.2 9.1.3 9.2 9.3

SAS DATA and PROC Steps

Single-Threading Processing

Multi-Theading Processing

PROC IML Statistical Modeling

Contacts

Edmond Cheng U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212 202-691-5458 cheng.edmond@bls.gov

Steven Holmes U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212 202-691-6423 holmes.steven@bls.gov holmes_steven_17@yahoo.com

Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not constitute policy of the

Bureau of Labor Statistics.