The Oracle Sun Fire X4470 Server, equipped with four Intel Xeon X7560 processors capable of running OpenMP applications with 64 compute threads, delivered outstanding performance on the both medium and large suites of the industry-standard SPEC OMP2001 benchmark. The results are reported in the Sun BestPerf blog "Sun Fire X4470 Sets World Records on SPEC OMP2001 Benchmarks."
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An InformationWeek 2010 survey reported 54 percent of respondents prefer a single server vendor, to take advantage of purchasing power, knowledge, and support. Oracle is delivering just that with the launch of a complete refresh of its Sun Fire x86 cluster systems which provide high performing application-to-disk solutions capable of being managed and supported as a single system from a single vendor.
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In the absence of a single source for Sun Studio SPEC benchmarks, Vijay Tatkar has assembled an informal single source of his own that leads users to useful information on the performance of a variety of Sun solutions.
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How valid are HP's claims of pre-eminence in SAP SD benchmarks? In a Sun Performance and Best Practices blog, Guido Ficco comments on significant SAP SD 2 Tier results and HP claims. According to Ficco, HP's claims rely on data skewed to establish their result. In defense of his position, Ficco cites the results for the latest version of SAP Enhancement Package 4 for SAP ERP 6.0 (Unicode).
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Get scalable and manageable x64 computing in dense and serviceable rackmount enclosures with the Sun Fire X4640 server. Based on the latest six-core AMD Opteron processors, this server can help scale, virtualize, and consolidate datacenter infrastructure. Learn how in a 44-page Sun white paper that examines the server's architecture, along with its key software components.
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