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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 [email protected]
Steven Holmes U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20212 202-691-6423 [email protected] [email protected]
Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not constitute policy of the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
