The Sun FireTM X4100 and Sun FireTM X4200 servers have set three new x86 world records on SPECjbb2005 benchmark (bops/JVMTM*) with the following operating systems: SolarisTM 10 Operating System (Solaris OS), Microsoft Windows 2003 Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

SPECjbb2005 benchmark (bops/JVM) benchmark emulates the design of real-world server-side JavaTM applications and provides an accurate reflection of the business logic and objects, while stressing the implementation of the JavaTM Virtual Machine (JVM) and the scalability of the system's processors and memory. This benchmark was used to demonstrate that Java HotSpotTM Server Virtual Machine, version JavaTM Platform, Standard Edition (JavaTM SE) 5.0_06 can deliver outstanding results and optimized performance, regardless of the underlying OS. Resulting highlights are as follows:

• The Sun Fire X4200 SPECjbb2005 result beat the Fujitsu PRIMERGY RX300 server by 17 percent and is more than 24 percent faster than the IBM xSeries eServer 346. Both competing systems were outfitted with the dual-core 2.8 GHz Xeon DP processors.
• The Sun Fire X4200 SPECjbb2005 result beat the nearest Windows result by more than 6 percent.
• Industry first SPECjbb2005 submission under the widely used Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS.

Sun also announced that on the EXA PowerFLOW benchmark a 16-processor cluster based on Sun FireTM X2100 servers outfitted with AMD Opteron processor Model 152 and the Cisco Infiniband (IB) PCI-Express adapter outperforms all results published by other hardware vendors on this benchmark. The EXA PowerFLOW benchmark consists of two compute and memory intensive suites with small and large data sets. Results in both of these cases showed the single-processor Sun Fire X2100 server is superior by a significant margin to all other results, including Itanium2 and POWER5-based submissions, setting a new world record for the clusters of this size. EXA's PowerFLOW CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) application is an MCAE application used by the major engineering companies in a variety of disciplines such as aerospace, automotive and chemical. Results were reported as follows:

• The cluster based on 16 Sun Fire X2100 servers is over 48 percent faster than HP DL140-based cluster with 16 Intel Xeon EM64T processors and IB interconnect.
• Sun's solution is up to 24 percent faster then HP DL 145-based cluster equipped with 16 AMD Opteron processors and Myrinet interconnect.

Since these "Galaxy" servers were announced last September, tens of thousands of Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers based on single- and dual-core AMD Opteron processors have been shipped to hundreds of customers, Sun revealed.

"We're not at all surprised by the extremely high demand we've seen with our Sun Fire x64 servers, especially Galaxy," said Graham Lovell, senior director of x64 servers, Network Systems Group, Sun. "Unit shipments of Sun Fire x64 servers, powered by AMD Opteron processors, were up 87 percent in our second quarter, signifying that customers are seriously considering our performance, power and cost advantages over the competition. Our new world-record benchmarks and price cuts will make our servers that much more attractive than competitive offerings."

* Note: JVM is a Sun trademark and not just an abbreviation for Java Virtual Machine. The terms 'Java Virtual Machine' and 'JVM' mean a Virtual Machine for the Java platform. [...read more...]

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