Sun Servers Demonstrate Enterprise And HPC Performance LeadershipSun Leads Development Efforts on New SPECjvm2008 and SPECmail2008 Benchmarks, Sets Bar with Solaris-Powered Results on Prominent Benchmarks SANTA CLARA, CALIF. October 15, 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) today announced five new world record results on industry-standard benchmarks using x64 servers based on Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron architectures, powered by the Solaris 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.
Sun Sets New World Records on HPC Benchmarks Sun set new industry high marks with record breaking results with FLUENT and ABAQUS software packages. FLUENT, heavily used in the automotive, aerospace and consumer products industries, solves fluid flow problems and is based on a numerical technique called computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The ABAQUS/Explicit benchmark suite includes a combination of six high-speed dynamic impact events like a car crash, and quasi-static events with complicated contact conditions like forming a part out of a blank metal sheet.
For more details on these and hundreds of other Sun benchmarks, please visit Sun's new benchmark web page: http://www.sun.com/benchmarks/. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network is the Computer" -- Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
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