The Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220 server beat all competitors' single chip results on the SPECint_rate2006. When running at 1.4 GHz using the GCC for SPARC Systems (gccfss) compiler, the Sun UltraSPARC T2 server delivered a result 78.0, which is 28 percent better than the results of IBM POWER6 running at 4.7 GHZ with a proprietary compiler.
Sun Fire X4100 server has set world record performance and price/performance results on the TPC-H benchmarks using Paraccel Analytic Database. The Sun Fire X4100 cluster achieved a QphH@1000GB of 315,842, nearly five times the previously reported best performance, and a $/QphH@1000GB of $4.57, which is about twice as good as the previously reported best price/performance.
AMD Opteron Model 8224SE processor (3.2GHz, 120W) is now available as an XATO and X-option for the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server. This processor is the fastest AMD Opteron dual-core processor available. It supports up to 128GB of memory using 32 x 4GB DIMMs with up to 8 x 3.2GHz dual core processors, Sun reports.
Pavel Bures is hosting a series of articles on his blog covering the architecture of the Microsoft Operations Manager 2005 (MOM) Pack 3.0 and how it works in conjunction with Sun servers. MOM is a monitoring tool to help manage large numbers of servers. Sun provides a plug-in for MOM on its servers that support the Windows 2003 Operating System.
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