Sun Fire X4640 Sets Record on SPECompL2001

The Sun Fire X4640 server with eight AMD Opteron model 8435 processors and running the Solaris 10 10/09 Operating System with Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler software, posted the top x86 result on SPECompL2001

Outstanding Performance of Sun Blade X6275 on FLUENT

A Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with 16 Sun Blade X6275 Server Modules configured with QDR InfiniBand cluster interconnect delivered outstanding performance running the FLUENT benchmark test suite truck_111m case.

Additionally, a Sun Blade 6048 Modular System with 8 Sun Blade X6275 Server Modules configured with QDR InfiniBand cluster interconnect delivered outstanding performance running the FLUENT 12 benchmark test suite. Sun consistently delivered the best or near best results per node for the 6 benchmark tests.

- Sun Blades Running NAMD Molecular Dynamics Benchmark Beat IBM -

A Sun Blade 6048 chassis with 48 Sun Blade X6275 server modules ran benchmarks using the NAMD molecular dynamics applications software, which is designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. Result: The cluster of 32 Sun Blade X6275 server modules was 9.2x faster than the 512 processor configuration of the IBM BlueGene/L.

Sun and Oracle Demonstrate World's Fastest Database Performance

Sun using 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers, 60 Sun Storage F5100 Flash arrays and Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Partitioning delivered a world-record TPC-C benchmark result. The 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster result delivered a world record TPC-C benchmark result of 7,646,486.7 tpmC and $2.36 $/tpmC (USD) using Oracle 11g R1.

Sun Ultra 27 With nVidia Graphics Card on SPECviewperf 10 Benchmark

Outstanding performance was earned by the Sun Ultra 27 workstation configured with an nVidia FX5800 graphics card running the SPECviewperf 10 benchmark. When compared with other workstations running a single graphics card, the Sun Ultra 27 workstation places first in 6 of 8 subtests and second in the remaining two subtests. The calculated geometric mean shows that Sun Ultra 27 workstation is 11% faster than competitor's workstations.

Sun Storage 6780 Array 51% Better Price/Performance than IBM DS5300

The Sun Storage 6780 array outperforms the IBM DS5300 by 51% in price performance for SPC-2 benchmark using RAID 5 and RAID 6 data protection. The Sun Storage 6780 Array has 62% better performance than the Fujitsu 800/1100 and delivers a price performance advantage of 5.6x as measured by this benchmark. [...read more...]

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