Fourth Quarter 97 SPECsfs97 Results

Defects Identified in SPEC SFS97 V2.0

June 14, 2001 - The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) has identified significant defects in its SFS97 benchmark suite. SPEC has suspended sales of the SFS97 benchmark and is no longer accepting new submission of SFS97 results for publication on SPEC's website (www.spec.org).

SPEC is advising SFS licensees and users of the SPECsfs97.v2 and SPECsfs97.v3 metrics that several recently uncovered bugs impact the comparability of results. These flaws can impact the amount of work done during the measurement periods and can greatly reduce the expected working set size. SPEC recommends that users not utilize these results for system comparisons without a full understanding of the impact of these defects on each benchmark result.

See the full notice and the technical document detailing the defects before studying any results.

These results have been submitted to SPEC, see the disclaimer before studying any results.

Published Results

SPECsfs97.v2 (NFS version 2)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT¹   Disclosure

Digital Equipment Corp  AlphaServer 4000 5/466        1   UDP     3425  7.56   HTML Text PS
Digital Equipment Corp  AlphaServer 4000 5/466        2   UDP     4672  7.61   HTML Text PS
IBM Corporation         RS/6000 7025 Model F50        2   TCP     2217  5.58   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F210                   1   TCP     1146  3.60   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F210                   1   UDP     1300  3.27   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F630                   1   UDP     4752  3.73   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3002           6   UDP    11806  5.16   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 4002          12   UDP    20406  6.77   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 6002          18   UDP    25639  9.94   HTML Text PS

SPECsfs97.v3 (NFS version 3)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT¹   Disclosure

IBM Corporation         RS/6000 7025 Model F50        2   TCP     1101  5.14   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F630                   1   TCP     2991  3.66   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F630                   1   UDP     3345  3.75   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3002           6   UDP     5903  5.41   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 4002          12   UDP    10592  5.66   HTML Text PS

¹ ORT = Overall Response Time

Last publication update: Thu Oct 2 13:28:33 2003