lenovo mission-critical server benchmarks

1

Numerous #1 Benchmark results since X6 roll-out #1 TPC-E* – as of Feb 16, 20141

#1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of Feb 20, 20142

#1 SAP® Applications Sales & Distribution 2-Tier 4-S*** – as of Feb 18, 20143

#1 @1000GB non-clustered TPC-H* – as of Apr 15, 20144

#1 SAP Applications Sales & Distribution 2-Tier 8-S – as of June 16, 20146

#1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of May 20145

#1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of Nov 20147

#1 TPC-E – as of Nov 25, 20148

#1 SAP BW-EML – as of Mar 16, 201510

#1 @10,000GB non-clustered TPC-H* – as of Apr 6, 201511

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,11 Detailed information about all of these benchmarks and their respective company trademarks can be found on the next two pages.

7 Winning Performance Measures in STAC-M3 -- as of Jan 20159

2015 LENOVO. All rights reserved.

Benchmark FootnotesEach #1 benchmark below ranked #1 on its respective date of publication:

1 #1 TPC-E* – as of Feb 16, 2014, http://www.tpc.org/4067

This benchmark result was published when System x and the X6 family of servers belonged to IBM. Following the official closing of its acquisition on October 1, 2014, Lenovo became the owner of the System x x86 server business including the X6 portfolio of systems.

2 #1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of Feb 20, 2014, http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2014q1/virt_sc2013-20140211-00010-perf.html


3 #1 SAP® Applications Sales & Distribution 2-Tier 4-S*** – as of Feb 18, 2014, certification number 2014004. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark . The 25000 SD users result was achieved on the x3850 X6 configured with four Intel® Xeon® Processor E7-4890 v2 processors running at 2.8 GHz with 37 MB L3 cache per processor (4 processors/60 cores/120 threads), 1024 GB memory, 64-bit DB2 10, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012, and SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.


4 #1 @1000GB non-clustered TPC-H* – as of Apr 15, 2014, http://www.tpc.org/3299 This benchmark result was published when System x and the X6 family of servers belonged to IBM. IBM subsequently sold System x and all associated products, services and expertise to Lenovo.

5#1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of May 2014, http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2014q2/virt_sc2013-20140528-00011-perf.html


6 #1 SAP Applications Sales & Distribution 2-Tier 8-S – as of June 16, 2014, certification number 2014024. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark . The 49000 SD users result was achieved on the x3950 X6 configured with eight Intel® Xeon® Processors E7-8890 v2 running at 2.8 GHz with 37.5 MB L3 cache per processor (8 processors/120 cores/240 threads), 1024 GB memory, 64-bit DB2 10, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012, and SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.


7 #1 SPECvirt_sc2013** – as of Nov 2014, https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2014q4/virt_sc2013-20141126-00019-perf.html


http://www.tpc.org/4067

http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2014q1/virt_sc2013-20140211-00010-perf.html

http://www.sap.com/benchmark




https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2014q4/virt_sc2013-20141126-00019-perf.html

Benchmark Footnotes, continued8 #1 TPC-E – as of Nov 25, 2014, http://www.tpc.org/40719 7 winning performance measures in STAC-M3**** – as of Jan 21, 2015, https://stacresearch.com/news/2015/01/21/stac-report-kdb-32-nvme-based-intel-ssds-lenovo-system-x3850-x610 #1 SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)-Enhanced Mixed Load – as of Mar 16, 2015, certification number 2015007. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. The 1,542,060 ad-hoc navigation steps per hour result was achieved at the 1-billion record on the Lenovo System x3850 X6-based appliance cluster of 7 nodes, each configured with four Intel® Xeon® E7-4880 v2 family processors with 60 cores and 120 threads, and 1TB memory, running SAP HANA 1.0, the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 7.4, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Lenovo GPFS 3.5.0.23 FPO on local disks. 11 #1 @10,000GB non-clustered TPC-H* – as of Apr 6, 2015, http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=115040601&layout

*TPC Benchmark, TPC-E, tpsE, TPC-H, QppH, QthH and QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.**SPEC and the names SPECvirt, SPECvirt_sc, and SPECvirt_sc2013 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Additional product and service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.***SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices.****STAC and all STAC names are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Securities Technology Analysis Center LLC.

All other trademarks and service names not accommodated above are the trademarks of their respective companies.

Following the official closing of its acquisition on October 1, 2014, Lenovo became the owner of the System x x86 server business including the X6 portfolio of systems.

© 2015 LENOVO. All rights reserved.


https://stacresearch.com/news/2015/01/21/stac-report-kdb-32-nvme-based-intel-ssds-lenovo-system-x3850-x6

https://stacresearch.com/news/2015/01/21/stac-report-kdb-32-nvme-based-intel-ssds-lenovo-system-x3850-x6


http://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=115040601&layout

http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/about/legal/copyright/index.html

4

SAP HANA BW-EML Scale out @10 Billion records 4-processor world record7

Continued innovation: 7 new world records as of 5/5/15 SAP HANA BW-EML Scale out @1 Billion records 4-processor world record1

TPC-H* @ 3000 GB 4-processor world record2

SPECvirt_sc2013** 4-processor world record3

SAP SD 2-Tier*** (Windows) 4-processor world record4

ANSYS FLUENT x86 4-processor world record for single x86 server on the fluidized_bed_2m compared to a baseline as tested by Intel 6

TPC-E* 4-processor world record5

2015 LENOVO. All rights reserved.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Detailed information about all of these benchmarks and their respective company trademarks can be found on the next two pages.All results listed on this page are as of May 5 2015.

5

Benchmark FootnotesEach #1 benchmark below ranked #1 as of May 5, 2015:

• 1SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)-Enhanced Mixed Load – as of May 5, 2015, certification number 2015011. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. The 1,992,570 ad-hoc navigation steps per hour result was achieved at the 1-billion record on the Lenovo System x3850 X6-based appliance cluster of 7 nodes, each configured with four Intel® Xeon® E7-8890 v3 family processors with 72 cores and 144 threads, and 1TB memory, running SAP HANA 1.0, the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 7.4, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Lenovo GPFS 3.5.0.23 FPO on local disks.

• 2TPC-H* @3000GB 4-processor world recordFour-processor Microsoft Windows* world record TPC Benchmark H @3000GB as of May 5, 2015, on Lenovo* System x3850 X6 with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 (2.5GHz, 4 processors, 72 cores, 144 threads), 3 TB running Windows Server* 2012 R2 SE, SQL Server 2014 Enterprise Edition, 4x 1200GB 10K SAS HDD, 2x 200GB SAS SSD, 6x 3200GB Enterprise io3 Flash PCIe Adapter, 1 ServeRaid* M5210, 1 Dual 10Gb-T Ethernet. Source http://www.tpc.org/3313. Availability: May 26, 2015. Score: 700,392.4 Query per hour H (QphH) @3000GB at a price of $691,524 USD* for a price/performance of $0.99 per QphH @3000GB.

• 3SPECvirt_sc2013* 4-processor world recordFour-processor world record on Lenovo* System x3850 X6 with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3, 2.5 GHz, 2 TB memory (64x Hynix* 32GB DDR4 RDIMM), Red Hat* Enterprise Linux* 6.6 (KVM), 2x LSI Logic MegaRAID SAS-3 3108, 16x 400GB SAS SSD, 1x Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5720 GbE PCIe, 4x Intel 82599ES 10 Gb SFI/SFP+ Network connection; 5 clients. Availability: May-2015. Score: SPECvirt_sc2013* 2655 @ 147 VMs. Result details available at http://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2015q2/virt_sc2013-20150430-00025-perf.html

• 4SAP SD* 2-Tier (Windows) 4-processor world record – as of May 5, 2015, certification number 2015010. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. The 30501 users result was achieved on Lenovo* System x3850 X6 with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3(4 processors/72 cores/144 threads), 2.5 GHz, 1 TB memory; 64-bit DB2 10, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2012, and SAP enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.

• 5TPC-E* 4-processor world recordFour-processor Microsoft Windows* world record TPC benchmark E, as of May 5, 2015, on the Lenovo* System x3850 X6 with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 (2.5GHz, 4 processors, 72 cores, 144 threads), 4 TB TruDDR4, running Windows Server* 2012 SE, SQL Server* 2014 Enterprise Edition, 2x 300GB SAS, 6x 800GB SATA SSD, 223x 400GB SAS SSD. Availability: July 31, 2015. Source http://www.tpc.org/4072. Score: 6964.75 tpsE, at a price of $1,713,135 USD for a price/performance of $245.98 USD/tpsE*.







6

Benchmark FootnotesEach #1 benchmark below ranked #1 as of May 5, 2015:

• 6ANSYS Fluent x86 R16[i] — Fluent software provides the physical modeling capabilities needed to model flow, turbulence, heat transfer, and reactions for a wide range of industrial applications. The System x3850 X6 achieved the highest performance rate ever for a single x86 server on the fluidized_bed_2m benchmark with a score of 4035.5, 19% faster than a similarly configured previous generation system baselined by Intel. Lenovo System x3850 X6 with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-8890 v3 (2.5GHz, 4 processors, 72 cores, 144 threads), 512GB TruDDR4, running RHEL 6.6, 1x 400GB SAS, compared to a similarly configured system baselined by Intel with four Intel® Xeon® processor E7-4890 v2 (2.8GHz, 4 processors, 60 cores, 120 threads), 512GB DDR3, running RHEL 6.4. Results will be available at http://www.ansys.com/benchmarks when posted by ANSYS.

• 7SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW)-Enhanced Mixed Load – as of May 5, 2015, certification number 2015018. For the latest SAP benchmark results, visit: http://www.sap.com/benchmark. The 269,960 ad-hoc navigation steps per hour result was achieved at the 10-billion record on the Lenovo System x3850 X6-based appliance cluster of 7 nodes, each configured with four Intel® Xeon® E7-8890 v3 family processors with 72 cores and 144 threads, and 1TB memory, running SAP HANA 1.0, the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform 7.4, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and Lenovo GPFS 3.5.0.23 FPO on local disks.

*TPC Benchmark, TPC-E, tpsE, TPC-H, QppH, QthH and QphH are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.**SPEC and the names SPECvirt, SPECvirt_sc, and SPECvirt_sc2013 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Additional product and service names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective owners.***SAP and other SAP products and services mentioned herein as well as their respective logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP SE (or an SAP affiliate company) in Germany and other countries. All other product and service names mentioned are the trademarks of their respective companies. Please see http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/legal/copyright/index.epx#trademark for additional trademark information and notices.

All other trademarks and service names not accommodated above are the trademarks of their respective companies.


http://www.ansys.com/benchmarks


http://www.sap.com/corporate-en/about/legal/copyright/index.html