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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 18:45 |
Sun Leads Development Efforts on New SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008 Benchmarks,
Sets Bar With Solaris-Powered Results on Prominent Benchmarks
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today
announced five new world record results on industry-standard benchmarks using
x64 servers based on Intel(R) Xeon(R) and AMD Opteron(TM) architectures, powered
by the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) and Linux. Sun is setting the bar by
posting the first-ever submissions on two new benchmarks from the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) - SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008, as
well as record-breaking results on SPECfp2006, ABAQUS and Fluent application
benchmarks for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Sun also debuted a
new benchmark web site designed to offer a gateway for customers to access more
than 350 industry-leading and world-record results, pertinent blogs, customer
success stories and other technical information in a single location. More
information is available at: http://www.sun.com/benchmarks/.
Today's announcement reinforces the exemplary performance and overall value of
Sun's systems from the edge of the network to heart of the enterprise, and
highlights Sun's continued commitment to helping customers accurately evaluate
system and software performance via industry-standard benchmark results. Sun
continues to invest engineering resources in benchmark development and testing
which in turn gives customers the tools to easily assess their compute needs,
size their deployments and compare performance across solutions.
Sun Brings Performance Leadership, Server Expertise to New SPECjvm and SPECmail
Benchmarks
Sun played a key role in the development of the new SPECmail2008 and SPECjvm2008
benchmarks and is the first server vendor to post results on the new tests. The
updated SPECmail2008 benchmark adds the ability to test email servers that are
processing requests, using IMAP4, the prevalent Internet protocol for enterprise
mail servers while the SPECjvm2008 benchmark now supports both client and server
workloads, multi-core environments and has the needed workload complexity and
memory usage to stress contemporary computer systems. Not only will these new
industry-leading benchmarks allow companies to help ensure their production
environments provide the desired quality of service, but they will also aid in
comparing the performance of a particular solution across various systems.
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SPECjvm2008: Sun inaugurated the new benchmark by publishing a record-breaking
result on the Sun Fire X4450 TM) server with Intel(R) Xeon(R) quad-core
processors. Recently Sun increased performance and posted even stronger results
by using the newest Intel CPUs with six cores(1). SPECjvm2008 (Java Virtual
Machine Benchmark) is a new benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a
Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real-life applications and
benchmarks focusing on core Java functionality. The SPECjvm2008 workload mimics
a variety of common general purpose Java(TM) applications. Fundamentally, this
multi-threaded Java benchmark allows customers to make comparisons based on a
credible, broad collection of real-world applications that represent various
workloads, while taking into account the performance of the operating system and
the underlying hardware in the context of executing the JRE.
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SPECmail2008: In this record-breaking submission, Sun showcases a complete mail
server solution based on the Sun Fire(TM) X4200 M2 server, powered by two AMD
Opteron processors Model 2220, the Solaris 10 OS, and the Sun Java System
Messaging Server 6.2, a component of the Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite(2).
This result demonstrates the ability of Sun's solution to support a large
enterprise-level mail server environment with a single physical Sun Fire server
and enterprise-class Sun StorageTek(TM) 2540 arrays, while maintaining the
highest level of throughput. The SPECmail2008 benchmark is an industry-standard
test designed to measure the performance of corporate e-mail servers on
real-world workloads that simulate the typical activities of mail servers
operating in a corporate environment.
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Sun Servers Demonstrate Enterprise and HPC Performance Leadership |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 16 October 2008 18:45 |
Sun Leads Development Efforts on New SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008 Benchmarks,
Sets Bar With Solaris-Powered Results on Prominent Benchmarks
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today
announced five new world record results on industry-standard benchmarks using
x64 servers based on Intel(R) Xeon(R) and AMD Opteron(TM) architectures, powered
by the Solaris(TM) Operating System (OS) and Linux. Sun is setting the bar by
posting the first-ever submissions on two new benchmarks from the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) - SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008, as
well as record-breaking results on SPECfp2006, ABAQUS and Fluent application
benchmarks for High Performance Computing (HPC) environments. Sun also debuted a
new benchmark web site designed to offer a gateway for customers to access more
than 350 industry-leading and world-record results, pertinent blogs, customer
success stories and other technical information in a single location. More
information is available at: http://www.sun.com/benchmarks/.
Today's announcement reinforces the exemplary performance and overall value of
Sun's systems from the edge of the network to heart of the enterprise, and
highlights Sun's continued commitment to helping customers accurately evaluate
system and software performance via industry-standard benchmark results. Sun
continues to invest engineering resources in benchmark development and testing
which in turn gives customers the tools to easily assess their compute needs,
size their deployments and compare performance across solutions.
Sun Brings Performance Leadership, Server Expertise to New SPECjvm and SPECmail
Benchmarks
Sun played a key role in the development of the new SPECmail2008 and SPECjvm2008
benchmarks and is the first server vendor to post results on the new tests. The
updated SPECmail2008 benchmark adds the ability to test email servers that are
processing requests, using IMAP4, the prevalent Internet protocol for enterprise
mail servers while the SPECjvm2008 benchmark now supports both client and server
workloads, multi-core environments and has the needed workload complexity and
memory usage to stress contemporary computer systems. Not only will these new
industry-leading benchmarks allow companies to help ensure their production
environments provide the desired quality of service, but they will also aid in
comparing the performance of a particular solution across various systems.
•
SPECjvm2008: Sun inaugurated the new benchmark by publishing a record-breaking
result on the Sun Fire X4450 TM) server with Intel(R) Xeon(R) quad-core
processors. Recently Sun increased performance and posted even stronger results
by using the newest Intel CPUs with six cores(1). SPECjvm2008 (Java Virtual
Machine Benchmark) is a new benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a
Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real-life applications and
benchmarks focusing on core Java functionality. The SPECjvm2008 workload mimics
a variety of common general purpose Java(TM) applications. Fundamentally, this
multi-threaded Java benchmark allows customers to make comparisons based on a
credible, broad collection of real-world applications that represent various
workloads, while taking into account the performance of the operating system and
the underlying hardware in the context of executing the JRE.
•
SPECmail2008: In this record-breaking submission, Sun showcases a complete mail
server solution based on the Sun Fire(TM) X4200 M2 server, powered by two AMD
Opteron processors Model 2220, the Solaris 10 OS, and the Sun Java System
Messaging Server 6.2, a component of the Sun Java(TM) Communications Suite(2).
This result demonstrates the ability of Sun's solution to support a large
enterprise-level mail server environment with a single physical Sun Fire server
and enterprise-class Sun StorageTek(TM) 2540 arrays, while maintaining the
highest level of throughput. The SPECmail2008 benchmark is an industry-standard
test designed to measure the performance of corporate e-mail servers on
real-world workloads that simulate the typical activities of mail servers
operating in a corporate environment.
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