Setting a new world record result for 8-socket servers with Intel 7500 series x86 processors, Oracle's Sun Fire X4800, which was equipped with eight 2.26 GHz Intel Xeon X7560 processors, attained a result of 3369694 SPECjbb2005 bops, 421212 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM on the SPECjb2005 benchmark, as reported in a BestPerf blog entry.

This world record result was set, the blog continues, on the Sun Fire X4800 using Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 and Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM on Solaris, version 1.6.0_21 Performance Release.

Pitted against the Sun Fire X4800 were the NEC 5800 and the Fujitsu 1800E, both of which used the Oracle JRockit(R) 6 P28.0.0 JVM and which produced results of 3343714 SPECjbb2005bops and SPECjbb2005bops/JVM; and 3321826 SPEC jbb2005bops and 415228 SPECjbb2005bops/JVM, respectively.

The hardware configuration for the Sun Fire X4800 involved 8 x Intel Xeon X7560, 2.26 GHz processors and 512 GB of memory. The software configuration involved Oracle Solaris 10 10/09 and Java HotSpot 64-Bit Server VM on Solaris, version 1.6.0_21 performance release.

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