http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/15/datacore_drops_spc1_bombshell/
DataCore drops SPC-1 bombshell Benchmark blows record to hell and gone The Fort Lauderdale boys have struck again, with a record-breaking run of 5 million IOPS, and maybe killed off every other SPC-1 benchmark contender's hopes for a year or more. DataCore Software, head-quartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has scored 5,120,098.98 SPC-1 IOPS <http://www.storageperformance.org/benchmark_results_files/SPC-1/DataCore/A00179_DataCore_Parallel-Server_DN-FC-SAN/a00179_DataCore_Parallel-Server_DN-FC-SAN_SPC-1_executive-summary.pdf>[PDF] with a simple 2-node Lenovo server set-up, taking the record from Huawei's 3 million-plus scoring OceanStore 18800 v3 array, which needs multiple racks and costs $2.37m. The DataCore Parallel Server configuration costs $505,525.24, almost a fifth of Huawei's cost. It is astonishing how SPC-1 results have rocketed in the past few years, as Huawei and Hitachi/HPE and Kaminario have sent results above the 1 million IOPS mark. What seemed ground-breaking at first is now viewed as ordinary; a million SPC-1 IOPS? Okay, move on. Five million, though, is more than the previous top two results combined and comes from just a pair of hybrid flash/disk servers, not a super-charged all-flash array. DataCore's 2-node Parallel Server configuration used a pair of Lenovo X3650 M5 servers, each with: Two Intel Xeon 2.30 GHz E5-2699 V3 processors each with 18 cores 1,536 GB RAM Mix of SSDs and HDDs internal & external RAID Controllers and Avago SAS HBA Qlogic 16 Gbps Fibre Channel HBAs (host connections) Brocade Switch UPS That's a huge amount of RAM – 1.54TB – for caching. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
