SOLUTION BRIEF

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction........................................ 1
World Record Performance ............... 2
System Under Test (SUT) ................... 2
Cluster Configuration ....................... 3
Benchmark Workload ........................ 3`High Per-Core Performance .............. 3
Results ............................................... 4
Conclusions ........................................ 4
Footnotes............................................ 5
Additional Resources ......................... 5

Supermicro AS -1124US-TNRP ServerIntroduction
The TPC Benchmark® C (TPC-C®) is a server benchmark that measures online transaction processing (OLTP) performance.
TPC-C consists of a set of basic operations that exercise system functionalities in a complex OLTP environment. TPC-C
benchmark provides a representative wholesale supplier with several geographically distributed sales districts and associatedwarehouses to model an order fulfillment system where the database receives requests for data, adds new data, and makes
multiple changes to the data from a large number of users. The primary metrics are:•Transactions per minute (expressed as tpmC).

The associated price per transaction (expressed as $/tpmC).

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The tpmC metric measures how many New-Order transactions per minute asystem generates while executing business transactions under specific user
response time requirements.

World Record Performance
Independent testing performed by Telecommunications TechnologyAssociation (TTA)2 yielded a world-record performance of 507,802 tpmC on
Supermicro A+ Server 1124US-TNRP servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™
processors, which is ~33% faster compared to 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processorbased server1. Please see Table 2 below for detailed results.

System Under Test (SUT)

Figure 1: Supermicro TPC-C (SUT)Cluster Configuration

BENCHMARK CONFIGURATION
Database Server
1 x Supermicro A+ Server AS -1124USTNRP

Hardware

Web Application Server
2 x Supermicro A+ AS -1114S-WN10RT Server
Each with:•

2 x AMD EPYC™ 7343 (2x16 Cores)•

1 x AMD EPYC™ 7713 (64 Cores)•

8 TB DDR4-2933 MHz (32 x 256 GB)•

128 GB DDR4-2667 MHz (8x 16 GB)•

2 x 7.6 TB PCIe® Gen4•

1 x 1.92 TB PCIe Gen4•

LSI LOGIC SAS-3 3108 MEGARAID
CONTROLLER•

1x Supermicro AOC-MCX516A-CDAT
Dual Port 25GbE SFP28 NIC•

6 x 7.68 TB SATA connected to LSI 3108•

1x Supermicro AOC-MCX4121A-ACAT
Dual Port 25GbE SFP28 NIC

SoftwareGoldilocks v3.1 Standard EditionRed Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server Release 8.3
Red Hat JBoss Web ServerNetwork1 x Mellanox® SN2700 100GbE Open Ethernet Switch

Table 1: Hardware and Software Stack

Benchmark Workload
TPC-C provides verifiable online transaction processing (OLTP) performance, price-performance, and availability metrics for acomplex compute OLTP environment where a population of users runs and executes business transactions against adatabase. Effective OLTP systems require both large memory capacities to support large datasets and high-performancecompute and storage resources. Supermicro A+ Server 1124US-TNRP’s world record TPC-C result leverages 3rd Gen AMD
EPYC™ support for up to 8 TB of high-speed DDR4 memory per socket to demonstrate excellent OLTP performance with a
database using large datasets with the support of large memory capacity. TPC-C also allows direct comparison of different
software and hardware solutions for complete OLTP environments.

High Per-Core Performance
Match core count with application needs without compromising processor features. The Supermicro A+ Server 1124US-TNRP
powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors built with 7nm technology offers a consistent set of features across a range ofchoices from 8 to 64 cores, including both 128 lanes of PCIe® Gen 4 and 8 memory channels with access to up to 4 TB of highspeed memory. The balanced set of resources found in 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors allows users to right-size server
configurations to their workloads. In addition, 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ includes models that offer high per-core performance

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optimized for frequency-sensitive and single-threaded workloads, which can help optimize TCO for core-based software
licenses.

Results
Table 2 shows the detailed test results.

ConfigurationSupermicro A+ Server 1124USTNRP
Supermicro A+ Server 1124USTNRP

cores-per-chip/# of sockets
24 / 2P
16 / 2P

CPU ModelMemory

2nd Gen AMD
16 x 256GB (4TB)
EPYC™ 7F72
3rd Gen AMD
32 x 256GB (8TB)
EPYC™ 7343
Cross-generational Performance
Gain

tmpC
380,475
507,802~33%

Table 2: Supermicro TPC-C results showing leading OLTP performance

Figure 3: Generational TPC-C performance gains (3rd Gen vs. 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors)1Conclusions
3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ 7343 processors show exceptional per-core and per-node performance for in-memory databaseapplications that require large memory capacity. In addition, servers powered by 3rd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors set a world
performance record performance for non-cluster systems with 507,802 tpmC, which is ~33% faster than 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™
processor-based server1. These capabilities make the AMD EPYC™ family of processors an excellent choice for running OLTP
applications.

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Supermicro Ultra servers powered by AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series Processors help leading enterprises reduce time-to-solution
across a wide range of applications, provide enhanced security features, and allow running all workloads either on-premises orin a public or private cloud.
Supermicro offers many certified solutions and reference architectures that empower organizations to create deployments thatdeliver data insights faster than ever before. These solutions include servers optimized for:
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AI/ML/DL training inference
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)
Software-defined infrastructure (SDI)
Software-defined storage, such as CEPH, VMWare vSAN, and Weka.IO.
Data management, such as Oracle 19c, Apache Hadoop, and Cassandra.
HPC application optimization, such as Ansys® Fluent®, OpenFOAM®, and WRF.

Footnotes
1.

Supermicro A+ Server 1124US-TNRP AMD EPYC™ 7343 507,802 tpmc https://www.tpc.org/1809 Supermicro A+ Server
1124US-TNRP AMD EPYC™ 72F2 380,475 tpmc https://www.tpc.org/1809

2.

Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) is the leading IT standardization association in Korea andcollects, analyzes, researches, and distributes diverse information on cutting-edge domestic and foreign
telecommunication technologies and their standardizations.

Additional Resources
TPC-C is an On-Line Transaction Processing Benchmark
TPC-C Top Performance Results© 2023 Copyright Super Micro Computer, Inc. All rights reserved

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