sas performance on sparc t4 + solaris: customer experience performance study from the u.s. bureau of...
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SAS Performance on SPARC T4 + Solaris: Customer experience performance study from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Edmond Cheng, Economist, Bureau of Labor StatisticsSteven Holmes, UNIX Systems Administrator, G&B Solutions
Operation and Business ProcessSurvey Frame
& Sample Design Questionnaire
Design & Testing
Data Collection &
Cycle Management
Data Processing & Validation /
Micro Editing
Estimation, Data
Tabulation & Macro Editing
Macro modeling, seasonal
adjustment
Data Dissemination /
Publication
SAS Solutions and Others
SAS Base 9.2
SAS AppDev Studio
SAS/ACCESS
SAS/Connect
SAS/ETS
SAS/Graph
SAS/IML
SAS/IntrNet
SAS/Share
SAS/STAT
SAS® Business Intelligence
SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3
SAS Enterprise Guide BI Server
Data Integration Server
Metadata Server
Microsoft Office IntegrationOthers
Oracle Servers
SPARC T4-2 SERVER Processor• Eight-core 2.85GHz SPARC T4 processor • Two processors per system, maximum 128
threads • Eight floating-point units • Dual multithreaded 10 GbE PCI integrated
onto chip
Performance Test Servers BaselinesServer Model Linux Lab Linux HP
BladeSun FireT5240
SPARC Enterprise M3000
SPARC T4-2
Operating System
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.3 (Santiago)
Solaris 10 Solaris 10 Solaris 10
Processor Intel Xeon E5430 CPU
Intel Xeon X5550
UltraSPARC T2+
SPARC64 VII
SPARC T4
Specs 2 CPU, 2.66Ghz, quad core
2 CPU, 2.66Ghz, quad core
2 CPUs, 1.2 GHz, 6-core
1 CPU, 2.75 GHz, quad-core
2 CPU 2.85 GHz, 8-core
Thread 8 8 96 8 128Ram 14GB 16GB 16GB 32GB 128GBSAS Version 9.2 9.2 9.1.3 9.2 9.3
Contacts
Edmond Cheng
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics2 Massachusetts Avenue, NEWashington, DC [email protected]
Steven Holmes
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics2 Massachusetts Avenue, NEWashington, DC [email protected][email protected]
Any opinions expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not constitute policy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics.