The lightning-fast Sun Java Workstation W1100z
claimed top spots in
well-recognized industry standard and application benchmarks and
demonstrated outstanding performance on real-world applications when
compared to the competition.
The Sun Java Workstation W1100z equipped with a
single AMD Opteron 150 processor and NVIDIA Quadro FX4000 graphics card,
has produced industry-leading results on the SPECviewperf benchmark. In
5 out of 8 SPECviewperf workloads, which vary from automotive design to
scientific visualization, the Sun Java Workstation W1100z has
demonstrated superior performance when compared to all other posted
results as of November 17, 2004. Moreover, the Sun Java Workstation
W1100z beats the IBM IntelliStation A Pro, equipped with 3Dlabs Wildcat
Realizm 100 graphics card, in 6 out of 8 tests and surpasses the HP
workstation xw4200, equipped with an Intel Pentium 4 3.4 GHz
EM64T-enabled processor and ATI FireGL V5100 graphics card, in 7 out of
8 tests. The SPECviewperf is a synthetic benchmark designed to be an
indicator of rendering performance for systems running OpenGL and is
based on 8 of the most prominent high-end 3D graphics applications
capable of rendering large data sets. The SPECviewperf does not require an
application software license to run, and therefore, is accessible to a
wider range of users, enabling direct performance comparisons of
graphics hardware.
The Sun Java Workstation W1100z, equipped with
one AMD Opteron
150 processor, 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA FX 4000 video card and running
Windows XP Pro, sets the bar high with a new World Record result as
measured by the OCUS (Olaf Corten's Utilities) benchmark V4 for PTC
Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, one of the most prominent MCAD applications used
world-wide.
The SPEC CPU2000 is an industry-standard benchmark
which measures CPU and
memory intensive computing tasks. It is made up of two benchmark suites
focused on integer and floating point performance. The Sun Java
Workstation W1100z demonstrated outstanding performance on the SPEC CPU2000
benchmark, including a World Record floating point result of 1787 in a
single x86 CPU category. The result was obtained using compilers from
Pathscale, Inc. and The Portland Group.
The Sun Java Workstation W1100z, equipped with one-AMD
Opteron 150 processor and running the Solaris 10 operating system, achieved up
to 61% better performance than the Dell Precision 650 workstation
with one 3.2 GHz Intel Xeon processor running Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3.0. The BLAST v2.2.9 benchmark, which models a BioInformatics
Application performing pattern matching for nucleotides and amino
acids, was provided by the National Center for Biotechnology
Information.
The Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit corporation formed to establish,
maintain and endorse a standardized set of relevant benchmarks that can
be applied to the newest generation of high-performance computers. SPEC
develops suites of benchmarks and also reviews and publishes submitted
results from their member organizations and other benchmark licensees.
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"...the full regression test used to take four hours... On a Sun Java Workstation powered by the AMD Opteron processor, the test took only 3.43 minutes."
