Third Quarter 99 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.    Auspex 4Front NS2000 (1-n     2   UDP     6030  4.89   HTML Text PS
Auspex Systems, Inc.    Auspex 4Front NS2000 (3-n     6   UDP    15053  5.76   HTML Text PS
Compaq Computer Corpor  Compaq AlphaServer ES40       4   UDP    10715  5.43   HTML Text PS
Hewlett Packard         HP L2000                      2   UDP     9133  3.60   HTML Text PS
Hewlett Packard         HP-9000 N4000                 2   UDP    10724  3.09   HTML Text PS
IBM Corporation         RS/6000 Model S80            24   UDP    40218  6.31   HTML Text PS

SPECsfs97.v3 (NFS version 3)

Company                 System                    CPU #  Proto  Result  ORT1   Disclosure

Auspex Systems, Inc.    Auspex 4Front NS2000 (1-n     2   TCP     4043  6.86   HTML Text PS
Compaq Computer Corpor  Compaq AlphaServer ES40       4   UDP     8798  5.72   HTML Text PS
IBM Corporation         RS/6000 Model S80            24   UDP    29083  4.25   HTML Text PS

1 ORT = Overall Response Time

Last publication update: Thu Oct 2 13:28:35 2003