STAC Reports: Intel SSDs with kdb+ 2.8 on IBM x3750 M4

Intel DC SSD S3700 exhibits significant speedup in read-intensive benchmarks and data throughput benchmarks compared to previous generation of SSD drives. 21 June 2013 - New York STAC has just released STAC Reports covering audited baseline STAC-M3 Benchmarks involving two different Intel SSD products. The report involving the Intel DC S3700 (SUT ID: KDB130515) is public and may be accessed here. The report involving the Intel DC S320 (SUT ID: KDB130614) is in the confidential STAC Vault and can be accessed here. Both systems used the same software (kdb+ 2.8, CentOS 6.3 with ext4) and the same server (IBM System x3750 M4 server with 4 x Intel Xeon E5-4650 CPUs and an IBM ServeRAID M5110e controller). In the report on the DC 3700, Intel chose to highlight some selected comparisons to the DC S320:

• 1.7x to 2.0x speedup of read-intensive benchmarks without heavy compute (STAC-M3.ß1.10T.MKTSNAP.LAT2, STAC-M3.ß1.1T.*HIBID.LAT2, STAC-M3.ß1.10T.VOLCURV.LAT2, STAC-M3.ß1.100T.VWAB-12D-NO.LAT2, STAC-M3.v1.1T.VWAB-D.LAT2).
• 1.2x to 1.5x speedup of read-intensive benchmarks involving significant compute (STAC-M3.ß1.*T.STATS-UI.LAT2, STAC-M3.ß1.10T.THEOPL.LAT2).
• 68% to 82% increase in bytes read per second in the High Bid tests (STAC-M3.ß1.1T.*HIBID.BPS).

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• STAC Report for the DC S320 system
• Config Disclosure for the DC 3700 system
• Config Disclosure for the DC S320