ORACLE PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP BRIEF

SPARC AND SOLARIS

LEADERSHIP IN SECURITY
PERFORMANCE
Oracles SPARC systems and Oracle Solaris OS are co-engineered to provide
efficient secure technology. SPARC security uses hardware accelerators to
deliver leading performance.
Oracle leads in providing encryption and policy-based key management that ensure data
protection for cloud and virtual environments. Oracle has proved its dramatic security
performance advantages through rigorous testing. In the cloud a huge amount data needs to
be encrypted. For data at rest, AES block-level encryption is FIPS 140-2 certified to support
U.S. government agencies. The end-to-end performance of all system components that make
up a virtualized environment.

AES Security Performance (per chip)

SPARC T5
3.6 Ghz
x86 E5 v2 2.7
GHz

34.3 GB/s

13.9 GB/s

HIGHLIGHTS
Demonstrated Secure Cloud and
Virtualization Leadership
SPARC and Solaris are 2.5x faster than

IBM Power8

7.8 GB/s

x86
SPARC and Solaris are 4.6x faster than

IBM Power8 processor chips.

Figure 1. SPARC T5-2 is 2.5x faster on AES-128-CBC versus the best x86 E5 v2 result
(with AES-NI) and 4.6x faster versus the IBM POWER8 result.

This result demonstrates the superiority of Oracles SPARC T5 processors with Oracle Solaris
for security and demonstrates the leadership SPARC servers provide in large-scale secure
cloud environments. With Solaris 11.2 command compliance provides system assessments
against security/compliance benchmarks and generates actionable reports.

SPARC Customer Successes

Large Mobile TeleCommunications Provider utilizing the SPARC T5-2 server, Oracle Solaris
11 and Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center. Customer realized the benefits of the feature
functionality of Oracle core technology and the RAS capabilities of SPARC/Solaris
Global Investment Management Firm needed to provide a platform to meet business needs
during spikes and growth and encryption to meet 2016 requirements. Customer consolidated
from 60 servers to just a few racks of SPARC T5-2, T5-4 and T5-8s to provide Infrastructure
as a service.

ORACLE PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP BRIEF

SPARC T5-2 Server

Utilizing modular design architecture and powered by either one or two SPARC T5
processorsOracles most powerful SPARC processors everthe SPARC T5-2 server
delivers exceptional single- and multi-thread performance. With 16 cores and 16 memory slots
per SPARC T5 processor, the SPARC T5-2 server provides extreme compute density, with up
to 32 cores and 1 TB of system memory within a 3U enclosure. Oracle has also proven that
the SPARC T5-2 is the fastest server for Java applications, which is critical in many cloud
deployments. The SPARC T5-2 is 1.8x faster than the best Intel 2-chip x86 E5 v2 Ivy-Bridgebased Cisco UCS C240 M3 server.

Conclusion
The SPARC T5 server running Oracle Solaris 11 automatically utilizes hardware accelerators
for security. Combined with the Oracle virtualization technologies such as the Oracle VM
Server for SPARC and Oracle Solaris Zones, which provide a low overhead, flexible, scalable,
manageable and secure virtualization environment with no extra cost for customers that have
Oracle premier support.
For more information about SPARC and Solaris performance, please visit
http://www.oracle.com/benchmarks.

Benchmark Disclosures
1) SPARC, x86 and POWER8 security performance:
https://blogs.oracle.com/BestPerf/entry/20130925_crypto_t5_2_x4 and
www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-ibmi-7_2-and-ibm-power8 (fig 2)
2) SPARC T5-2 114,492 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS, 43,963 SPECjbb2013MultiJVM critical-jOPS; Cisco UCS C240 M3 63,079 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM max-jOPS,
23,797 SPECjbb2013-MultiJVM critical-jOPS.

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