Sun solutions have achieved another world record, this time with Oracle Application Server 10g running on a heterogeneous Sun configuration in the SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark. The multi-tier operating system and processor architecture included a seven-node Sun FireTM V65x server cluster, each equipped with two Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, and linked to the SPARCR processor-based Sun FireTM 6800 database server running the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) (SPARCR Platform Edition) and the Sun Fire V65x server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with x86 chip technology.

This is the first SPECjAppServer 2002 record performance established on a heterogeneous chip architecture, and boasts a 36 percent improvement in price-performance over a competing UNIXR vendor's record, established on a homogeneous, Intel-based platform. The Sun and Oracle record-breaking SPECjAppServer2002 MultipleNode benchmark achieved 2,408.73 TOPS@MultipleNode at 700.07 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode, the highest SPECjAppServer2002 result in any category, besting the nearest competitor in both performance and price performance.

SPECjAppServer2002, a JavaTM technology-based enterprise application server multi-tier benchmark, is the only industry accepted benchmark to measure performance of JavaTM 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EETM) technology-based solutions and is designed to model a typical Fortune 500 manufacturing business.

SPECjAppServer2002 expresses performance in terms of two metrics: Total Operations Per Second (TOPS), which is determined by the number of order transactions plus the number of manufacturing work orders divided by the measurement period in second; the second metric is Price/TOPS -- the price of the System Under Test (including hardware, software and support) divided by the TOPS.

Oracle Database 10g now runs on multiple UNIX-based systems from Sun, including Solaris OS on SPARC, Solaris OS (x86 Platform Edition) and Red Hat or SuSE Linux on x86. The Oracle Application Server 10g benchmark recorded on Sun's heterogeneous configuration represents realistic workloads typical of most customers' data center usage.

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