First Quarter 2001 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

Auspex Systems, Inc.    NS2000 (3-node, RAID5, Ne     6   TCP    17437  4.50   HTML Text PS
Auspex Systems, Inc.    NS2000 (3-node, RAID5, Ne     6   UDP    22017  4.04   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 6500          22   UDP    46840  2.95   HTML Text PS

SPECsfs97.v3 (NFS version 3)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT¹   Disclosure

Auspex Systems, Inc.    NS2000 (3-node, RAID5, Ne     6   TCP    12121  4.22   HTML Text PS
Auspex Systems, Inc.    NS2000 (3-node, RAID5, Ne     6   UDP    12664  3.54   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F740 Failover Clus     2   TCP     6267  1.79   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F740 Failover Clus     2   UDP     7248  1.96   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F760 Failover Clus     2   TCP     7745  1.70   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F760 Failover Clus     2   UDP     8819  1.84   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F820 (TCP, 28x36GB     1   TCP     7383  1.54   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F820 (UDP, 28x36GB     1   UDP     7900  1.66   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F820c Failover Clu     2   TCP    13056  1.46   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F820c Failover Clu     2   UDP    14186  1.55   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840 (TCP, 42x36GB     1   TCP    10011  1.24   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840 (UDP, 42x36GB     1   UDP    11626  1.44   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840c Failover Clu     2   TCP    17286  1.33   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F840c Failover Clu     2   UDP    19520  1.46   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F85 (TCP, 18x36GB      1   TCP     3710  2.83   HTML Text PS
Network Appliance, Inc  NetApp F85 (UDP, 18x36GB      1   UDP     3717  2.85   HTML Text PS
Sun Microsystems Inc.   Sun Enterprise 6500          22   TCP    25565  3.16   HTML Text PS

¹ ORT = Overall Response Time

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