In addition to reducing complexity and streamlining operations, today’s customers are increasingly looking for more from their investments and require confidence in their technology partner to deliver the type of performance and availability necessary to run demanding and evolving workloads like Microsoft SQL Server. Building on its longstanding recognition as the #1 x86 server vendor for reliability and customer satisfaction, Lenovo’s new ThinkSystem servers have achieved 42 #1 performance world records.
The TPC-E benchmark uses a database to model a brokerage firm with customers who generate online transaction processing (OLTP) transactions related to trades, account inquiries, and market research. Lenovo is the first to break the $100 USD/transaction per second per E benchmark (tpsE) price barrier on TPC-E, with $93.48 USD/tpsE2, 16% lower than the previous low of $111.65 USD/tpsE. In addition to Lenovo achieving the lowest $USD/tpsE, Lenovo also achieved the highest TPC-E performance for any 2-socket system with 6,598.36 tpsE. This benchmark shows how customers can lower their overall costs, while still achieving the performance required to process their customer transactions. In addition to the TPC-E WR’s on the SR650, Lenovo also achieved a TPC-H world record on the SR950. The TPC Benchmark™H (TPC-H) is a decision support benchmark. This benchmark illustrates decision support systems that examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. Lenovo has published the best performance result ever on the non-clustered TPC-H™ benchmark @10,000GB scale. The ThinkSystem SR950 server achieved the following score: 1,336,109.6 QphH @10,000GB (queries per hour H) at $0.92 USD / QphH @10,000GB.
Lenovo has also demonstrated success to aid financial market customers, delivering 26 STAC-M3 world record benchmarks on the ThinkSystem SR950 and ThinkSystem SR650. The STAC-M3 benchmarks measure challenging workloads in time-series analytics. The ThinkSystem SR950 set world records in 9 of the 15 required, and two of the optional STAC-M3 ‘big-memory’ Shasta benchmarks. One of these results was over 2x higher than prior scores in the STAC-M3 Shasta benchmark.
The ThinkSystem SR650 also set world records in 15 of 17 mean response-time benchmarks when running the STAC-M3 Antuco benchmark suite, compared to previous publicly reported results for single-node 2 socket servers running the Kx Systems kdb+ database7. The STAC-M3 benchmark reports for the SR950 and SR650 are publicly available. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 has set a new single node 2-socket performance world record with the SPECmpiM_base2007 metric from the MPI M2007 suite of the SPEC MPI 2007 Benchmark
In addition, Lenovo set world record world records in SPECvirt_sc2013 in 2 socket server, and SPECjbb2015 benchmarks on 1, 2, 4, and 8 socket servers. These new world record benchmark results demonstrate Lenovo’s commitment in delivering the performance our customers expect from their server investments, in addition to providing customers flexible systems that are highly reliable.
“Today’s announcement reconfirms Lenovo’s commitment to disrupting the legacy status quo and providing unprecedented investment protection for customers,” said Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group. “Lenovo’s 42 new world breaking benchmarks for our new ThinkSystem servers utilizes the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, combined with third parties rating Lenovo as the #1 x86 server system reliability and customer satisfaction, showcases Lenovo’s engineering strength and more importantly our global commitment to exceed customer expectations.”
