Lenovo has announced the achievement of 42 new benchmarks worldwide for its ThinkSystem portfolio, integrated with the latest Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors. The ThinkSystem portfolio of solutions is designed to help customers drive complexity reduction and tackle the most demanding workloads.
The new ThinkSystem portfolio brings together the best performing systems from across the industry under a single brand that includes servers, storage and networking systems. The ThinkSystem portfolio can adapt to ever-changing IT needs while reducing the complexity and cost of traditional IT systems. Lenovo's latest server portfolio includes 14 highly configurable servers offered in rack and tower formats, mission-critical, dense and blade platforms, as well as new hyperscalable systems. Thus, customers have the opportunity to simplify their IT infrastructure, which leads to a high level of service of data center operations that is directly reflected in business development. Furthermore, customers don't have to fear incompatibility between different technologies or the inability to scale the technology as the workload changes. Lenovo has designed the ThinkSystem portfolio to be compatible with the equipment organizations have already invested in, without the need for a total re-engineering of the data center.
Lenovo added seven new solutions covering services such as cloud, big data, analytics and databases, which are supported by the new ThinkSystem servers, and presented two new Intel® solutions. These enterprise solutions are designed to deliver added value to customers by leveraging Lenovo's innovations in server performance and reliability, as well as collaboration with industry-leading software partners.
Unleashed performance: ThinkSystem ranks first in 42 performance benchmarks
In addition to reducing complexity and streamlining operations, customers increasingly want to get better results from their investments, but also have more confidence that their technology partner will deliver the performance and availability needed to run tasks demanding and constantly evolving workloads such as Microsoft SQL Server. Capitalizing on its long-standing reputation as a leading x86 server vendor for reliability and customer satisfaction, Lenovo's new ThinkSystem servers have achieved 42 world records for performance.
The TPC-E benchmark uses a database to model a brokerage firm with clients that generate trades, account inquiries and market research. Lenovo is the first company to break the $100 USD/transaction per second benchmark E (tpsE) barrier set by TPC-E at $93.48 USD/tpsE 2 and 16% below the previous low of $111.65 USD/tpsE 3 . In addition to achieving the lowest $USD/tpsE, Lenovo also had the best TPC-E performance of any 2-socket system at 6,598.36 tpsE 2 . This benchmark shows how customers can reduce their overhead costs while still achieving the performance needed to process their own customers' transactions. In addition to the world record achieved for the SR650 based on TPC-E, Lenovo also achieved a world record based on TPC-H for the SR950. The TPC H Benchmark™ (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 provide answers to critical business questions. Lenovo posted the best ever performance result on the unclustered TPC-H™ benchmark at 10,000GB scale. The ThinkSystem SR950 server scored the following: 1,336,109.6 QphH™ @10,000GB (requests per hour H) at $0.92 USD / QphH @10,000GB .
Lenovo also enjoyed success in supporting customers in the financial market, delivering 26 STAC-M3 leadership benchmarks for the ThinkSystem SR950 and ThinkSystem SR650 servers. STAC-M3 benchmarks measure demanding workloads in time series analytics. The ThinkSystem SR950 set world records in 9 of the 15 mandatory standards, as well as two of the optional STAC-M3 'big-memory' Shasta standards. One of these results was nearly twice as high as previous scores on the STAC-M3 Shasta benchmark.
The ThinkSystem SR650 server also set world records on 15 of 17 average response time benchmarks running Antuco's STAC-M3 suite, compared to previously published results for single-node 2-socket servers running Kx kdb+ database systems data. STAC-M3 benchmark reports for SR950 and SR650 servers are publicly available. The Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 server set a new world record for performance in the single node 2-socket category with the SPECmpiM_base2007 parameter of the MPI M2007 suite of the SPEC MPI 2007 Benchmark.
5 benchmarks for the 2-socket server and SPECjbb2015 for the 1-, 2-, 4-, and 8-socket server benchmarks. These world-record benchmark results from Lenovo demonstrate the company's commitment to delivering the performance customers expect from the servers they've invested in, as well as offering flexible systems with high reliability.
"The results reaffirm Lenovo's commitment to revolutionize the market and provide an unprecedented level of investment protection for customers," said Kirk Skaugen, President of the Lenovo Data Center Group. "The 42 world records obtained as a result of benchmark tests for the ThinkSystem portfolio that includes the latest Intel® Xeon® scalable processors, but also the leading position in the top x86 server suppliers from the perspective of reliability and customer satisfaction, strengthens us technology design capability and the ability to support our customers as they transform their business."
Lenovo joins the Intel® Select
Lenovo also announced participation in the Intel Select Program, which is a new set of Intel-branded solutions running on Intel® Xeon® Skylake-SP processors and targeting the complex workloads facing data centers today. They ensure customers receive an industry-standard solution, while simplifying and accelerating the process of selecting, deploying and optimizing data center infrastructure to run specific workloads. Lenovo Validated Concept for VMWare vSAN and Lenovo Validated Concepts for high-performance Microsoft SQL Server OLTP will be available starting October 2017.
"The Lenovo ThinkSystem server portfolio achieves 42 new standards that are world records. The results achieved are an excellent testament to the technological innovation and design of Lenovo's ThinkSystem servers," said Kim Stevenson, Senior Vice President, Data Center Infrastructure Business at Lenovo. "The impressive number and diversity of these standards demonstrate Lenovo's commitment to innovation and drive value for our customers, enabling them to run the most demanding workloads and applications."
About STAC
The Securities Analysis Technology Center (STAC) is a company that coordinates a community called the STAC Benchmark Council. It consists of more than 300 financial institutions and 50 provider organizations whose purpose is to explore technical challenges and solutions in financial services and develop technology benchmarks that are useful to financial organizations. User firms include leading global banks, brokerage houses, exchange houses, hedge funds, proprietary trading companies and other market participants. Vendor firms include innovative manufacturers of processors, servers, storage and networking systems, as well as horizontal market software vendors and vertical specialists. STAC-M3 benchmarks are governed by user companies that are part of STAC. The STAC-M3 Reference Standards Report for the SR950 is publicly available.
About TPC.ORG
TPC is a not-for-profit corporation established to define reference standards for transaction processing and databases, and to disseminate TPC performance data that is objective and verifiable to the industry.
Additional resources
For more information on Lenovo ThinkSystem server performance results and benchmarks, visit http://lenovopress.com/LP0698 .
The results listed are updated as of July 11, 2017. To view all TPC results, visit http://www.tpc.org . The maximum availability of solutions for this TPC-E* benchmark result is October 19, 2017. Follow the details regarding this result at http://www.tpc.org/4080 .
