RMDS 6.0 Benchmarked on Sun Blade X6250 Server Module

Posted on November 18th, 2008

Sun Microsystems has benchmarked Thomson Reuters RMDS 6.0 on a Sun Blade X6250 Server Module powered by two-socket 3.0GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon E5450 processors (total 8 cores) system. After applying best tuning practices for the Solaris/Intel platform, the benchmark achieved one of the best latency numbers for RMDS on 1GbE infrastructure.

Top line latency and throughput is as follows (See below for the full benchmark results):

RMDS Blades Latency Numbers - All 1 Gigabit Ethernet:

Message Rate Updates/sec	Mean Latency in msecon X6250 Blade Server with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon Quad-Core / Solaris 10 x64	Mean Latency in msecon HP BL460c Blades Server with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon Dual-Core / Linux 4.4 32-bit	Difference on X6250
100,000 updates/sec	0.659 msec	0.626 msec	-5.0%
150,000 updates/sec	0.701 msec	0.753 msec	+7.0%
200,000 updates/sec	0.752 msec	0.896 msec	+6.0%
250,000 updates/sec	0.771 msec	1.029 msec	+25.0%
300,000 updates/sec	0.840 msec	1.117 msec	+25.0%
350,000 update/sec	0.867 msec	1.209 msec	+28.0%
400,000 updates/sec	0.892 msec	n/a	n/a
450,000 updates/sec	0.961 msec	n/a	n/a
500,000 updates/sec	1.015 msec	n/a	n/a
550,000 updates/sec	1.060 msec	n/a	n/a
600,000 updates/sec	1.197 msec	n/a	n/a
650,000 updates/sec	1.439 msec	n/a	n/a
700,000 updates/sec	1.356 msec	n/a	n/a

RMDS Blades Throughput Numbers - All 1 Gigabit Ethernet:

RMDS Component/Configuration	Solaris 10 x64on X6250 Blade Server with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon Quad-Core (messages/sec)	Linux 4.4 32-bit on HP BL460c Blades Server with 3.0GHz Intel Xeon Dual-Core (messages/sec)
P2PS LAN - Fanout, Cache Disabled, RRCP	2,474,500 updates/sec	n/a
P2PS LAN - Fanout, Cache Disabled, RV	2,434,860 updates/sec	n/a
Source Dist - Cache Disabled, RRCP	965,000 updates/sec	n/a
Source Dist - Cache Disabled, RV	960,000 updates/sec	n/a
P2PS LAN, No-Fanout, Cache Disabled, RRCP	853,000 updates/sec	n/a
P2PS LAN, No-Fanout, Cache Disabled, RV	812,000 updates/sec	n/a
P2PS POP, Fanout, Cache Disabled	2,282,600 updates/sec	n/a
P2PS POP, No-Fanout, Cache Disabled	488,000 updates/sec	n/a