Third Quarter 2000 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

Network Appliance, Inc  F840 Scalable Storage Net    12   UDP   182548  1.59   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  F840 Scalable Storage Net    16   UDP   250573  1.58   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  F840 Scalable Storage Net     2   UDP    30555  1.56   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840 (UDP, 38x18GB     1   UDP    15235  1.54   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840c Failover Clu     2   UDP    25973  1.55   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      1   UDP     4508  2.74   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      2   UDP     8165  3.04   HTML Text PS

SPECsfs97.v3 (NFS version 3)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT¹   Disclosure

EMC Corporation         Celerra 507 Cluster (1FS/    14   TCP   104067  2.87   HTML Text PS
EMC Corporation         Celerra 507 Cluster (1FS/     2   TCP    15723  2.73   HTML Text PS
EMC Corporation         Celerra 507 Cluster (1FS/     4   TCP    32049  2.62   HTML Text PS
EMC Corporation         Celerra 507 Cluster (1FS/     8   TCP    61809  2.93   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      1   TCP     2419  3.76   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      1   UDP     2649  3.34   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      2   TCP     4219  3.74   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      2   UDP     4606  3.80   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun StorEdge N8200 Filer      2   TCP     2206  2.56   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun StorEdge N8200 Filer      2   UDP     2212  2.92   HTML Text PS

¹ ORT = Overall Response Time

Last publication update: Thu Oct 2 13:28:32 2003