The 12-CPU Sun FireTM V1280 server outperformed Intel-based servers with up to 16 CPUs while achieving 98 percent scalability in a SPECint_rate2000 test conducted by Sun. The Sun Fire V1280 server scored an estimated 73.2, as measured by the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark. The results are characterized as "estimated" because compilers yet to be released were used in their measurement. The Sun Fire V1280 server also delivered a single-processor SPECint_rate2000 score of 6.22 (est.).

Featuring the SolarisTM Operating Environment (Solaris OE) and 900 MHz UltraSPARCR III Cu processors, in addition to its 12 CPU/96 GB memory configuration and cross bar architecture, the Sun Fire V1280 server showed itself as clearly able to deliver enterprise availability and near-linear scalability at an entry-level price.

When multi-processor systems scale linearly, processors added to the system perform at increments closely proportional to their performance in single-processor systems, which is clearly the case in the results for the Sun Fire V1280 server.

The SPECint_rate2000 benchmark is used to test the performance of a system's CPU, memory subsystem and compiler, as well as to rate throughput computing in multiprocessor systems with workloads that rely heavily on integer operations. [...read more...]

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