Record-Setting Performance by Sun x64 Servers and Open Storage

Sun's Open Network Systems have set multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. Outstanding performance was also observed on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test.

Sun announced the following results:

TPC-H@300GB

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server delivered a new eight-processor, non-clustered price/performance record on the TPC-H@300GB benchmark. The TPC-H benchmark is designed to evaluate the performance of various BIDW and Decision Support Systems (DSS) systems at various database sizes, also referred to as scale factor (SF). Sun's first TPC-H publication using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 beats the competing HP DL785 server by nearly 15 percent on price/performance and uses 20 percent fewer disks.

TPC-H@30000GB

A cluster of 43 Sun Fire X4540 storage servers equipped with AMD Opteron processors running OpenSolaris set new performance and price/performance records on the TPC-H benchmark at the 30TB scale factor -- the highest scale factor with published results. The Sun Fire X4540 storage servers combined with the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system (DBMS) for data warehousing and analytics, was seven times faster and provided 16 times better price/performance than the only other posted result on the HP Superdome. Sun's solution consumed only 1/3 the power in less than 1/6 the floor space of the HP system, while delivering a fully mirrored storage pool with almost 1,000 fewer disks.

SPECmail2009

The Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System propelled the Sun Fire X4275 server, powered by two Intel Xeon X5570 processors, to a new world record on SPECmail2009 benchmark, a test designed to simulate real-world corporate e-mail environments and measure a system's ability to serve e-mail using industry-standard protocols. The Sun Fire X4275 server, running Java System Messaging Server 6.4 and the Solaris 10 OS, with two Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage Systems, supported 1/3 more users using approximately half the number of disk drives, compared to competitive systems using direct attached storage.

SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server (8 processors/32 cores/32 threads), running AMD Opteron processors, set an eight-processor world record on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark with 6,050 SAP SD Benchmark users running the new SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode). The SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments and demonstrates the performance of competitive systems running order and invoice-processing workloads. Running SAP solutions with the MaxDB 7.8 database, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server surpassed the closest competing eight-processor HP ProLiant DL785 G5 system by 10 percent with 5,518 SAP SD users.

SAS Analytics Grid Endurance Test

Seven Sun Fire X2200 M2 servers with AMD Opteron processors running the Solaris 10 OS and the Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage System, delivered the first large scale grid validation of the SAS Grid Computing 9.2 release. SAS Grid Computing enables grid support for analytical data mining and data integration and is designed to automatically enable grid-based execution for certain analytics procedures.

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Sun x64 Servers and Open Storage Deliver Record-Setting Performance on Enterprise Applications

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