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Wednesday, October 14, 2009
 
Sun achieves the Magic Number 50,000 on T5440 with Oracle Business Intelligence EE 10.1.3.4

Less than two months ago, Sun Microsystems published an Oracle Business Intelligence benchmark with the best single system performance of 28,000 concurrent BI EE users at ~75% CPU utilization. Sun and Oracle Corporation announced another Oracle Business Intelligence benchmark result today with two identical T5440 servers in the Oracle BI Cluster serving 50,000 concurrent BI EE users.

An Oracle white paper with Sun's 50,000 user benchmark results can be accessed from Oracle's Business Intelligence web.

The hardware specifications for each of the T5440s are similar to the hardware that was used in the prior benchmark effort on a single T5440 server. However this time the Presentation Catalog (also frequently referred as the Web Catalog) was moved to a T5220 server where the NFS server was running. Besides this the only other change from the earlier 28,000 user benchmark exercise is the addition of another T5440 to the test rig.

The following graph shows the scalability of the application from one node to four nodes to eight nodes running on T5440 servers.

OBIEE on T5440 : Scalability Graph


Without further ado, here is the summary of the benchmark results along with their significance and some interesting facts:


TOPOLOGY DIAGRAM

The topology diagram in the benchmark results white paper is almost illegible. Here is the original topology diagram that was inserted into the white paper.

OBIEE on T5440 : 50K User Benchmark Topology


Quite frankly I'm not very proud of this drawing -- but that's the best that I could come up with in a short span. Rather than showing the flow of communication between each and every component in the benchmark setup, I simplified the drawing by introducing a "black box" sort of thing - "private network" - in the middle, which protected the drawing from getting messy.

CPU USAGE GRAPH

The following two-dimensional graph shows the CPU utilization patterns at all 3 nodes in the benchmark setup for the 60 minute steady state of the benchmark run. This graph was generated using the free GNUplot tool with sar data as the inputs.

OBIEE on T5440 : 50K User Benchmark CPU Usage Graph


COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE

And finally here is a quick summary of all the results that are published by different vendors so far with similar benchmark kit. Feel free to draw your own conclusions. All this is public information. Check the corresponding benchmark reports by clicking on the URLs under the "#Users" column.

Server Processors #Users OS
Chips Cores Threads GHz Type
  2 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 (APP)
  1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 (NFS,DB)
8
1
64
8
512
64
1.6
1.2
UltraSPARC T2 Plus
UltraSPARC T2
50,000 Solaris 10 5/09
  1 x Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 4 32 256 1.6 UltraSPARC T2 Plus 28,000 Solaris 10 5/09
  5 x Sun Fire T2000 1 8 32 1.2 UltraSPARC T1 10,000 Solaris 10 11/06
  3 x HP DL380 G4 2 4 4 2.8 Intel Xeon 5,800 OEL
  1 x IBM x3755 4 8 8 2.8 AMD Opteron 4,000 RHEL4





Before you go, do not forget to check the best practices for configuring / deploying Oracle Business Intelligence on top of Solaris 10 running on Sun CMT hardware.

Related Blog Posts:
T5440 Rocks [again] with Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Workload

(Originally posted on blogs.sun.com at:
http://blogs.sun.com/mandalika/entry/oracle_business_intelligence_10_1
)



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