Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Intel's newest Xeon processors posts record performance results across a wide range of industry benchmarks

16 avril 2019Douglas Shakshober4 minutes (temps de lecture)

Intel recently launched the 2nd generation of Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, a family of high-end, enterprise-focused processors targeted at diverse range of workloads. To see how Intel’s new chips measure up, we’ve worked with Intel and others to run benchmarks with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 and Intel’s 2nd generation Xeon processors.

The new CPUs include updated hardware-based security features, increased memory capacity and feature enhanced compute cores with Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512). Moreover, the added support for Intel Optane DC persistent memory modules enables additional performance improvements at the system level.

Higher per-core performance, faster memory and storage combined with workload-optimized cores benefit overall system performance making this new generation of CPUs an attractive target for original equipment manufacturers (OEM) partners to benchmark using RHEL7.6. As shown in the table partners have chosen to run and publish benchmark results with RHEL7.6 posting world records on standard benchmarks in conjunction with the Intel launch.

Leaning on our long history of collaboration, Red Hat and Intel once again worked together to deliver state-of-the-art performance to the enterprise data centers and beyond. Red Hat’s development and performance engineering teams have been working on hardware enablement and validation of these new scalable processors for more than a year resulting in 35 benchmark publications using Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

The Performance team at Red Hat collaborates with our software partners and hardware OEMs to measure and optimize performance across workloads that range from database and Java applications to ERP and analytic applications, among others. The culmination of this multi-months work is a set of world records produced by our OEM partners that use Red Hat Enterprise Linux to deliver top scores on TPC, SPEC, STAC and SAP¹ industry standard benchmarks.

This table captures the highest reported scores across various standard benchmarks that used Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as posted by OEM partners on April 2, 2019.

Significance	OEM Platform	Category and Benchmark name	OS version
World record (Total Runtime of Data Load/Transformation, Total Runtime of Complex Query Phase) @ 1.3B	Dell PowerEdge R940	Big Data Analytics: SAP* BW Edition on SAP HANA* V3 @ 1.3 billion (1.3B) initial records	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
World records (Query Executions per Hour) @ 5.2B	Dell PowerEdge R940	Big Data Analytics: SAP* BW Edition on SAP HANA* V3 @ 5.2 billion (5.2B) initial records	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Linux	Fujitsu Server PRIMERGY* RX4770 M5	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Composite critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket and Overall world record and $/BBQpm world record	HPE ProLiant* DL380 Gen10	Big Data Analytics: TPC Benchmark* Express Big Bench @ SF10000	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-socket world record Linux	Huawei Fusion Server 2288H	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Composite max_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record Linux	Huawei Fusion Server 2288H	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Composite max_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Linux	Huawei Fusion Server 2288H	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Composite max_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
6-socket world record Linux	Huawei KunLun 9008 V5	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Composite max_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-node 3-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-node 6-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-node 2-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
3-node 2-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
5-node 2-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
6-node 2-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPECmpiM*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
3-socket world record	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Technical Computing: SPEComp*_base 2012	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenACC	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenCL	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record for ACCEL—OpenMP	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Technical Computing: SPEC ACCEL*_base 2007	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record Antuco Suite (11/17 benchmarks)	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Antuco Benchmarks	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Antuco Suite (9/15 required plus 2 optional benchmarks)	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Antuco Benchmarks	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Antuco Suite (8/9 benchmarks)	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Big Data Analytics: STAC-M3* Kanaga Suite with 2 year data set	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
3-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	SPECjbb*2015 Composite critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Distributed critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Distributed critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
3-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Distributed critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Distributed critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
8-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 Distributed critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
1-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
2-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR650	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
3-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
4-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
6-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6
8-socket world record Linux	Lenovo ThinkSystem* SR950	Server-side Java: SPECjbb2015 MultiJVM critical_jOPS	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6

Source: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/benchmarks/server/xeon-scalable/2nd-gen-xeon-world-record.html

These benchmarks cover a broad spectrum of workloads and provide solid evidence that Red Hat Enterprise Linux excels at handling scalable workloads and thrives in ever-changing environments, as enterprise customers place ever increasing demands on their infrastructure.

The ongoing support and collaboration with Intel and the ecosystem of ISV and OEM partners does not just stop with benchmarks. Instead, it moves beyond, making Red Hat Enterprise Linux a natural target for advanced projects, daring implementations and other efforts that our partners and customers may be engaging in.

The confidence that they put in Red Hat is a motivator for expanding capabilities and delivering innovative features in the future versions of the OS, where we hope to continue to be the trusted OS of choice for partners and customers alike.

[1] All results as of April 2, 2019. SPEC and the benchmark names SPEC CPU and SPECjbb are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. For more information about SPEC and its benchmarks see: www.spec.org. TPC is a trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). For more information about the TPC and it's benchmarks see www.tpc.org. SAP and SAP NetWeaver are the registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries. See www.sap.com/benchmark for more information. STAC is the Security Technology Analysis Center that improves technology discovery and assessment in the finance industry through dialog and research. For more information visit http://www.stacresearch.com/.