Fourth 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

Compaq Computer Corpor  Compaq AlphaServer ES40 M     4   UDP    16832  2.98   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  F840 Scalable Storage Net     6   UDP    91218  1.59   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      4   UDP    13605  3.15   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      6   UDP    18860  3.57   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 4500          10   UDP    30703  3.78   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 6500          16   UDP    40938  3.03   HTML Text PS
Traakan, Inc.           FT450L                        1   UDP     2010  1.88   HTML Text PS

SPECsfs97.v3 (NFS version 3)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT¹   Disclosure

Compaq Computer Corpor  Compaq AlphaServer ES40 M     4   UDP    14157  3.14   HTML Text PS
EMC Corporation         EMC CLARiiON IP4700, Clus     2   TCP    10422  3.10   HTML Text PS
EMC Corporation         EMC CLARiiON IP4700, Clus     2   UDP    11451  3.15   HTML Text PS
LSI Logic               N4300                         4   TCP     6589  3.58   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  F840 Scalable Storage Net    16   TCP   120206  1.87   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840 (TCP, 28x18GB     1   TCP     7783  1.55   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840 (UDP, 18x18GB     1   UDP     8820  1.98   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      4   TCP     7301  3.70   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      4   UDP     8067  3.76   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      6   TCP    10517  3.81   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 3500/4500      6   UDP    11275  3.35   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 4500          10   TCP    16049  3.96   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 4500          10   UDP    17766  3.75   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 6500          22   UDP    29997  3.91   HTML Text PS

¹ ORT = Overall Response Time

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