Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 Server User Manual

: June 12, 2024
: Lenovo

Table of Contents

Performance Benchmark Result
About the ThinkSystem SR950
About the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Benchmark
Learn more
Notices
References
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ThinkSystem SR950 Sets World Record with New SAP BW Edition for SAP HANA (1.3B Records) Benchmark Result

Performance Benchmark Result

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L processors delivers world record performance for the throughput KPI for SAP Business Warehouse, edition for SAP HANA® Standard Application Benchmark Version 3 with 1.3 billion (1.3B) initial records in a single-node setup. Lenovo Intelligent
Network Controller - ThinkSystem SR950 The benchmark refers to the SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) application running on the SAP HANA platform. The benchmark consists of three phases and the SR950 server achieved the following performance results (1):

Phase 1: Data load phase = 12,145 (Runtime of last Data Set in seconds)
Phase 2: Query throughput phase = 11,620 (Query Executions per Hour)
Phase 3: Query runtime phase = 81 (Total Runtime of complex query phase in seconds)

The SR950 was configured as follows:

Four Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L Processors, 2.70 GHz
• 112 total cores / 224 total threads
• 64 KB L1 cache and 1024 KB L2 cache per core
• 38.5 MB L3 cache per processor
1.5 TB DRAM system memory
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1
SAP HANA 2.0
SAP NetWeaver 7.50

Results referenced are current as of January 28, 2021. For the latest SAP BW benchmark results, visit: https://www.sap.com/dmc/exp/2018-benchmark- directory/#/bwh.

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This benchmark fully complies with the SAP Benchmark Council regulations and has been audited and certified by SAP SE (certification number 2021010). Details can be obtained from Lenovo and SAP. The benchmark was performed at the Lenovo Data Center Performance Lab in Walldorf, Germany, by Lenovo engineers. Configuration: ThinkSystem SR950 with 4 processor / 112 cores / 224 threads, Intel Xeon Platinum 8280L processors, 2.70 GHz, 64 KB L1 cache and 1024 KB L2 cache per core, 38.5 MB L3 cache per processor, 1,536 GB DRAM.

About the ThinkSystem SR950

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 is designed for your most demanding, mission-critical workloads, such as inmemory databases, large transactional databases, batch and real-time analytics, ERP, CRM, and virtualized server workloads. The powerful 4U ThinkSystem SR950 can grow from two to eight secondgeneration Intel Xeon Scalable Family processors, and with 96 DIMM sockets, supports up to 24 TB of highspeed memory. The modular design of SR950 speeds upgrades and servicing with easy front or rear access to all major subsystems to maximize server availability. The ThinkSystem SR950 also supports Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory delivering a new, flexible tier of memory designed specifically for data center workloads that offer an unprecedented combination of high-capacity, affordability and persistence.
The SR950 packs numerous fault-tolerant and high-availability features into a high-density, 4U rackoptimized design that reduces the space needed to support massive network computing operations and simplify servicing. Lenovo XClarity Controller is an all-new hardware embedded management engine common in every ThinkSystem server. XClarity Controller features an uncluttered graphical user interface, industry standard Redfish-compliant REST APIs, and enables booting in half the time of prior generation servers, with up to 6x faster firmware updates.
Lenovo XClarity Administrator is a virtualized application that centrally manages ThinkSystem servers, storage, and networking. Via reusable patterns and policies, it ramps up and scales infrastructure provisioning and maintenance. It serves as a central integration point to extend your data center management processes to physical IT. Running XClarity Integrators in external IT applications, or integrating through REST APIs, helps you further speed services provisioning, streamline IT management, and contain costs.
ThinkShield is a comprehensive approach to security designed to secure the data center, from the foundation of your infrastructure to the network’s edge and guard against a security breach. ThinkShield protects your business with each offering, from development through disposal.

About the SAP BW edition for SAP HANA Benchmark

The SAP BW, edition for SAP HANA Standard Application Benchmark, Version 3, is the latest addition to the list of benchmarks for SAP Business Warehouse. It utilizes the capabilities of SAP HANA to process the benchmark workload. Allowed data volumes are a multiple of 1.3 billion initial records and can be run in single-node and multi-node setups. This benchmark was released in July 2018. The benchmark scenario represents typical mid-size customer scenario and volumes for SAP BW running on SAP HANA. The benchmark simulates a variety of users with different analytical requirements and measures the key performance indicator (KPI) relevant to each of the three benchmark phases.
The three benchmark phases are as follows:

Data load phase, testing data latency and load performance
Query throughput phase, testing query throughput with moderate complex queries
Query runtime phase, testing the performance of running very complex queries

For more information about the benchmark, go to https://www.sap.com/about/benchmark.html.

Learn more

To learn more about business warehouse and data analytics solutions for SAP applications running on Lenovo Servers visit, https://www.lenovo.com/us/en /data-center/solutions/sap/ or contact your Lenovo Customer Representative.
To learn more about the Lenovo ThinkSystem SR950 server, visit the SR950 product web page: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/data-center/servers/mission- critical/Lenovo-ThinkSystemSR950/p/77XX7HSSR95
Related product families
Product families related to this document are the following:

SAP BW Benchmark Results
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4-Socket Rack Servers
SAP Alliance

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