Lenovo X6 Server Architecture Achieves 10 Performance World Records

Lenovo X6 Server Architecture Achieves 10 Performance
World Records

Demonstrates ongoing SAP
HANA benchmark performance with two new industry-leading results

SINGAPORE – APRIL 10, 2017 –
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) today announced
its industry-leading X6 server platform has established 10 additional industry
performance benchmarks, including two new SAP world records as well as a new
Java and SPECcpu world record benchmark, bringing its world record total to 34
and continuing the X6 family’s string of number one or world-record benchmarks
since its launch in 2014.

Designed to deliver maximum
performance and uptime for applications and cloud deployments, the Lenovo X6
solutions are ideal for customers who are looking for reliability,
manageability and scalability with the flexibility to run Windows or Linux
operating systems. Today’s benchmark performance results reflect the company’s
mission to help customers transform their data centers by embracing emerging
data consumption and delivery models such as cloud-based infrastructure, big
data and analytics solutions powered by Lenovo’s x3850 X6 and x3950 X6 server
platforms.

New world-record result on
two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution standard application benchmark on Windows1

Continuing its long-standing
history of achieving excellent performance results on SAP standard application
benchmarks, the Lenovo System x3950 X6 achieved an outstanding 8-socket world
record result on the Windows operating system for the two-tier SAP sales and
distribution (SD) standard application benchmark. Designed to test the hardware
and database performance of SAP applications and components, the x3950
delivered a 28 percent performance improvement over the previous-generation Lenovo
system and a four percent improvement over E7-8890 v4 processors. For customers
running SAP Business Suite applications, Lenovo’s latest benchmark result makes
it the highest performing server for processing business transaction workflows
in an SAP environment.

New result on SAP Business
Warehouse Edition for SAP HANA standard application benchmark2

Lenovo also posted another
world-record result on the SAP Business Warehouse Edition for SAP HANA (SAP
BW/4HANA) standard application benchmark. The powerful 4-socket Lenovo system
x3850 X6 delivered industry-leadership performance for all three key
performance indicators for 1.3 billion records in a single-node setup. The SAP
BW/4HANA standard application benchmark is the latest addition to the list of SAP
BW benchmarks and its three phases — data load, query throughput and query
runtime — aim to fully utilize the new capabilities of SAP HANA to process the
benchmark workload. The result was achieved on the Lenovo System x3850,
configured with four Intel Xeon processors, SAP HANA 1.0 and SAP NetWeaver 7.5.
The Lenovo x3850 X6 provides the enterprise-class reliability and availability
needed for business-critical applications running on SAP HANA. Lenovo delivers
simple and scalable solutions for SAP HANA and is a worldwide leader in SAP
HANA with over 6,800 deployments.

New SPEC CPU 2006 benchmark
for compute-intensive applications3

Once again, Lenovo has posted a
top SPEC CPU2006 benchmark score for the Lenovo System x3850 X6 4U rack server,
using two high-performance Intel Xeon Processor E7-8894 v4 with 24 cores. Ideal
for measuring multi-threaded compute-intensive applications, such as High
Performance Computing (HPC) workloads, the x3850 X6 achieved a leadership
SPECint_rate_base2006 score using two Intel Xeon E7-8894 v4 processors, 256 GB
of TruDDR4 memory, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1 (x86_64).

Lenovo’s Lenovo System x3850
achieved leadership four-processor (4P) performance results for the SPECjbb2015
Distributed Benchmark. SPECjbb 2015 is a Java Business Benchmark and is the
SPEC benchmark used for evaluating the performance of servers running typical
Java applications. Using Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM (version 1.8.0_111) and
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1, the x3850 achieved 224,892 max-jOPS and
75,274 critical-jOPS scores, denoting the x3850 the highest performing server
for the latest Java application response time and throughput.

Additional benchmark records
in business processing, big data analytics and infrastructure virtualization

Finally, Lenovo maintains the
top spot for an additional six benchmarks across a variety of industry tests
including SPECint 20065, SPECfp 20066, SPECvirt 20137,8, STAC-M3 Shasta Suite9 and TPC-E10. Notably,
Lenovo’s performance on TPC-E, which measures and compares the performance and
price of various On Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) and database systems,
established the top four-processor result of 9,068.00 tpsE (transactions per
second E) @ $139.85 USD/tpsE, a full 30 percent faster than the performance of
the x3850 X6 using the prior generation Intel Xeon E7 v3 processors. 11 This is the
best four-processor performance in the industry and joins Lenovo’s current
number one 2P12 and number one overall/8P13 performance
results to extend Lenovo’s dominance of the TPC-E benchmark and OLTP
performance.

“With over 30 world record
benchmarks achieved this year, today’s results are an excellent testament to
Lenovo’s industry-leading X6 server innovation and technology design,” said
Kamran Amini, GM, Server and Storage Business Units at Lenovo. “Not only do
these performance results demonstrate our ability to continuously improve on
our own success, they reinforce Lenovo’s commitment to creating purposeful data
center innovation that drives compelling business value for clients and their
most demanding workloads and applications.”

Footnotes

1 Claim based on best-published 8-socket SAP SD Standard Application
Benchmark result on Microsoft Windows published at
http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 2-tier, 8x Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4 (192 cores/384
threads) on Lenovo System x3950 X6 with 2048 GB total memory on Windows Server
2012 R2 Standard Edition using SAP Enhancement Package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0 and
IBM DB2 10.1. Benchmark: SAP SD 2-Tier enhancement package 5 for SAP ERP 6.0.
Source: Certification #2017002, http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/sd2tier.epx.
Score: 77,098 benchmark users.

2 Claim based on best-published SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Standard
Application Benchmark @ 1.3 billion initial records result published at
http://global.sap.com/solutions/benchmark as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 4x Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4 (96 cores/192 threads) on
Lenovo System x3850 X6 with 2048 GB total memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 11 using SAP HANA 1.0, SAP NetWeaver 7.50. Benchmark: SAP BW for SAP HANA
@ 1.3B initial records, Source: Certification #2017003,
http://www.sap.com/solution/benchmark/appbm/netweaver.sap-bw-edition-for-sap-hana-standard-application.html.
Score: Runtime of Data Load/Trans (14,939 secs), Query Executions per Hour
(4,273), Runtime of Complex Query (154 seconds).

3 Claim based on best-published two-socket SPECint_rate_base2006
benchmark published at https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of 7
February 2017. New configuration: 1-Node, 2x Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4
(24 cores, 48 threads) on Lenovo System x3850 X5 with 256 GB memory on SUSE
Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1, using Version 17.0.0.098 of Intel C/C++
Compiler for Linux, Source:
https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2017q1/cpu2006-20170124-46535.pdf.
SPECint_rate_base2006 score 1840.

4 Claim based on best four-socket published SPECjbb2015 Distributed
max-jOPS published at https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/ as of 7 February
2017. New configuration: 1-Node, 4 x Intel Xeon processor E7-8894 v4 on Lenovo
System x3850 X6 with 512 GB total memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP1
using Java HotSpot 64-bit Server VM, version 1.8.0_111.
http://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/res2017q1/jbb2015-20170118-00140.html.
SPECjbb2015 – Distributed scores: 224,892 max-jOPS and 75,274 critical-jOPS

5 Claim based on best-published 8-socket SPECint_base2006 benchmark published
at https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 1-Node, 8x Intel Xeon processor E7-8891 v4 (10 cores, 20
threads) on Lenovo System x3950 X6 with 1024 GB memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 12 SP1, using Version 16.0.0.101 of Intel C/C++ Studio XE for Linux,
Source: https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2016q3/cpu2006-20160809-43451.pdf.
SPECint_base2006 score: 71.1.

6 Claim based on best-published 8-socket SPECfp_base2006 benchmark published
at https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 1-Node, 8x Intel Xeon processor E7-8891 v4 (10 cores, 20
threads) on Lenovo System x3950 X6 with 1024 GB memory on SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 12 SP1, using Version 16.0.0.101 of Intel C/C++ Studio XE for Linux,
Version 16.0.0.101 of Intel Fortran Studio XE for Linux, Source:
https://www.spec.org/cpu2006/results/res2016q3/cpu2006-20160809-43447.pdf.
SPECfp_base2006 score: 129.

7 Claim based on best-published 8-socket SPECvirt_sc2013 results
published at https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/ as of 7 February 2017.
New configuration: 1-Node, 8x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 on Lenovo System
x3950 X6 with 4096 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (KVM).
Source:
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160830-00062-perf.html,
SPECvirt_sc2013 score: 8284 @ 462 VMs.

8 Claim based on best-published SPECvirt_sc2013 results published
at https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/ as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 1-Node, 4x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 on Lenovo System x3850
X6 with 2048 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 (KVM). Source:
https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2016q3/virt_sc2013-20160913-00063-perf.html,
SPECvirt_sc2013 score: 4377 @ 247 VMs.

9 Claim based on best-published STAC-M3 15 world records (Shasta
Suite) at http://www.stacresearch.com/m3 as of 7 February 2017. New
configuration: 1-Node, 4x Intel Xeon processor E7-8890 v4 on Lenovo System
x3850 X6 with 6144 GB total memory on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2-kernel
3.10.0-327 using Kx Systems kdb+ 3.3 software. STAC-M3 Tick Analytics
Benchmarks, Shasta Suite (15 of 15 benchmarks required) source:
http://www.STACresearch.com/KDB160425.

10 Claim based on best-published four-socket TPC
Benchmark E results published at http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp
as of 7 February 2017. New configuration: 1-Node, 4x Intel Xeon processor
E7-8890 v4 on Lenovo System x3850 X6 with 4096 GB total memory on Windows
Server 2012 R2 Standard using SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Edition. Availability:
July 31, 2016. Source: http://www.tpc.org/4078. Score: 9,068 tpsE, at a price
/performance ratio of $139.85 USD/tpsE.

11 The #1 4P TPC-E performance result using prior
generation processors was run on the Lenovo System x3850 X6, as of 7 February
2017. Result details are at: http://www.tpc.org/4072

12 The #1 2P TPC-E performance result is held by the
Lenovo System x3650 M5, as of 7 February 2017. Result details are at:
http://www.tpc.org/4076

13 The #1 overall world-record TPC-E performance result is
held by the eight-processor Lenovo System x3950 X6, as of 7 February 2017.
Result details are at: http://www.tpc.org/4075