PathScale Inc. has joined Sun and AMD in an engineering collaboration that will enable customers to maximize their system throughput and achieve record-setting benchmarks in their system's application-based performances. The combination of PathScale EKO Compiler Suite on Sun's AMD Opteron-based systems running Linux OS is proving to be remarkable.

One of the first customers to utilize this technology is the University of Chicago's Economics Research Center, known as one of the world's leading institutions doing research in economic modeling and analysis.

Donour Sizemore, numerical analyst at the University of Chicago explained why this institution selected the Sun, AMD and PathScale technology. "We choose to deploy the combination of Sun's Sun FireTM V40z servers based on AMD Opteron processors and PathScale EKO compilers as our internal testing proved this offering to be the highest performance for our highly-compute intensive statistical applications."

As of July 26, 2004, Sun achieved the fastest SPECint_rate2000 and SPECfp_rate2000 results when using the PathScale EKO compiler suite on the Sun Fire V40z server compared to any 4-way AMD Opteron processor-based system and compiler combination running on Linux. The Sun Fire V40z server achieved a SPECint_rate2000 result of 63.5 and SPECfp_rate2000 result of 70.0.

The Sun JavaTM Workstation W1100z also has benefited from PathScale's EKO compilers in assisting the workstation to produce higher performance on both the SPECfp2000 and the SPECint2000 benchmarks than any other 1-way AMD Opteron-based system and compiler combination running on Linux. Specifically, the Sun Java Workstation W1100z achieved a SPECint2000 result of 1582 and SPECfp2000 result of 1787.

Lisa Sieker, senior director of marketing, Network Systems Group at Sun, said that by providing customers with a choice of operating systems the company helps customers solve some of their IT issues. "One of our priorities is to help customers solve problems. We do so by leveraging industry-leading technology to provide customers like the University of Chicago with the highest-performance AMD Opteron-based systems available, and giving them a choice of operating systems to run their systems on," Sieker said. "Sun strives for total system performance and the combination of AMD's Opteron processors and PathScale's EKO Compiler Suite are essential ingredients in achieving the industry's highest performance results with these new systems."

To read more about the July 26, 2004, competitive benchmark results, visit:

http://www.spec.org

For the latest SPEC CPU2000 benchmark results, visit:

http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results

For more information on PathScale, Inc.:

http://www.pathscale.com

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