Lenovo has announced 42 new world record benchmarks for the new ThinkSystem server portfolio. The ThinkSystem portfolio of solutions are designed to work with latest Intel Xeon Scalable processors and engineered to help customers reduce complexity and cost while tackling their most challenging workloads.
Kim Stevenson, Senior VP, Data Center Infrastructure Business at Lenovo said, “The sheer number and the diversity of these benchmarks demonstrate Lenovo’s commitment to innovation and drives business value for our customers, allowing them to run the most demanding workloads and applications.”
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 US$100/transaction per second per E benchmark (tpsE) price barrier on TPC-E, with US$93.48/tpsE1, 16% lower than the previous low of US$111.65 USD/tpsE3. Lenovo also achieved the highest TPC-E performance for any two-socket system with 6,598.36 tpsE2. This benchmark shows how customers can lower their overall costs, while still achieving the performance required to process their customer transactions.
Lenovo also achieved a TPC-H world record on the ThinkSystem SR950 server. 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 nonclustered TPC-H benchmark @10,000GB scale. The ThinkSystem SR950 server achieved 1,336,109.6 QphH @10,000GB (queries per hour H) at US$0.92/QphH @10,000GB3.
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 nine 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 benchmark4.
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 two-socket servers running the Kx Systems kdb+ database5. The STAC-M3 benchmark reports for the SR950 and SR650 are publicly available. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 has set a new single node two-socket performance world record with the SPECmpiM_base2007 metric from the MPI M2007 suite of the SPEC MPI 2007 Benchmark6.
Lenovo also set world records in SPECvirt_sc20137 in two-socket servers, and SPECjbb20158 benchmarks on one-, two-, four-, and eight-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.
Kirk Skaugen, President of Lenovo Data Center Group, said the announcement reconfirms Lenovo’s commitment to disrupting the legacy status quo and providing unprecedented investment protection for customers. “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 No. 1 x86 server system reliability and customer satisfaction, showcases Lenovo’s engineering strength and more importantly our global commitment to exceed customer expectations,” he said.
Lenovo has additionally announced support for Intel Select Solutions, a new set of optimised solutions based on the Intel Xeon Scalable processors targeting today’s complex data centre workloads. These solutions offer customers an industry-standard solution while simplifying and accelerating the process of selecting, deploying, and optimising data centre infrastructure to run specific workloads. The Lenovo Validated Design for VMWare vSAN and Lenovo Database Validated Designs for High Performance Microsoft SQL Server OLTP will be available starting in October 2017.
Lenovo recently introduced its largest, most comprehensive portfolio of server, storage, networking, software and data centre services, as well as a new set of brands: ThinkSystem and ThinkAgile, aiming to bring unprecedented performance, reliability and quality to customers, and enable them to harness the power of the intelligence revolution.
“The Lenovo ThinkSystem server portfolio delivers 42 new world record benchmarks. Today’s results are an excellent testament to Lenovo’s ThinkSystem server innovation and technology design,” said Kim Stevenson, Senior VP, Data Center Infrastructure Business at Lenovo. “The sheer number and the diversity of these benchmarks demonstrate Lenovo’s commitment to innovation and drives business value for our customers, allowing them to run the most demanding workloads and applications.”
ThinkSystem is a single unified brand spanning servers, storage and networking systems that integrate seamlessly into the existing data centre. Lenovo’s latest server portfolio includes 14 configurable servers across rack and tower, mission-critical, dense and blade platforms, as well as new hyperscale system designs, all of which streamline IT infrastructure and lead to increased service levels in the data centre that tie directly to business growth. Additionally, customers can choose between different technologies and scale technology as workloads change.
Lenovo has added seven new solutions covering cloud, big data, analytics and database that are supported on the new ThinkSystem servers, as well as introducing two new Intel solutions. These enterprise solutions are designed to deliver value to customers by utilising Lenovo’s innovations in server performance and reliability as well as collaboration with software partners.
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Results referenced are current as of July 11, 2017. View all TPC results
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1 TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. http://www.tpc.org/4080
2 http://www.tpc.org/4077
3 http://www.tpc.org/3328
4 The Securities Technology Analysis Center (STAC) is a company that coordinates a community called the STAC Benchmark Council. The STAC Benchmark Council consists of over 300 financial institutions and more than 50 vendor organisations whose purpose is to explore technical challenges and solutions in financial services and to develop technology benchmark standards that are useful to financial organizations. User firms include the largest global banks, brokerage houses, exchanges, hedge funds, proprietary trading shops, and other market participants. Vendor firms include innovative manufacturers of processor, server, storage, and network hardware, as well as horizontal-market software providers and vertical specialists. STAC-M3 benchmarks are governed by user firms in the STAC Benchmark Council. STAC-M3.β1.1T.YRHIBID/s.TIME benchmark on x86 four-socket servers
5 Reports for the SR950, SR650
6 https://www.spec.org/mpi2007/results/res2017q3/mpi2007-20170620-00534.html
7 https://www.spec.org/virt_sc2013/results/res2017q3/virt_sc2013-20170620-00089-perf.html
8 https://www.spec.org/jbb2015/results/res2017q3/
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