The Sun Fire V20z server continues to shine on industry standard benchmarks outperforming most of its direct competition on the market. Recognized industry standard benchmarks demonstrate the Sun Fire V20z server's outstanding performance on real-world applications and further solidifies the SUN/AMD alliance.
The Sun Fire V20z server equipped with two multi-core AMD Opteron(TM) Model 275 processors (4 cores, 4 threads) and 8 GB of memory set a world
record of 1,440 portal users with average online response time of 1.94 seconds on Employee Self-Service Portal (EP-ESS) Benchmark. EP-ESS is
part of the SAP Standard Application Benchmark suite for SAP Enterprise Portal (SAP EP) and uses the Business Package for Employee Self-Service.
EP-ESS provides a number of iViews that allow employees to create, display, and change their own data, such as department, name, address,
and more in the SAP R/3 back-end system.
Leading the way, the Sun Fire V20z server posted the first result on this benchmark and was running SuSE Linux ES 9 (64-bit) operating system
with IBM JSE 1.4.2 (64-bit). The benchmark was used to stress the performance of the SAP NetWeaver Portal 6.0 SP13 (64-bit) and Platform
2004 (64-bit), while launching business transactions. The benchmark fully complies with the SAP Benchmark Council regulations and have been
audited and certified by SAP AG. SAP certification number is 2006012.
The Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 252 processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, delivered 65,840 SPECjbb2000 operations per second, surpassing the best published results for any 2 CPU 64-bit system, as of March 28, 2005. The Sun Fire V20z server's 2-way 64-bit world record on the SPECjbb2000 benchmark, which measures the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, as well as the performance of the underlying operating system and the scalability of the system's processors and memory, clearly demonstrates that the Solaris 10 OS delivers better results than SuSE Linux. The testing was performed on a pair of identically configured Sun Fire V20z servers, utilizing the latest version of Java 2 Platform (J2SE 5.0) built for the respective operating system.
The Sun Fire V20z server equipped with the latest version of Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 has posted a new 64-bit 2-way world-record on the SPEC JBB2000 benchmark (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Java(TM) Business Benchmark), which measures the implementation of Java Virtual Machine (JVM), as well as the performance of the underlying operating system and the scalability of the system's processors and memory. The Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 252 processors and running SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0, delivered 63,743 SPECjbb2000 operations per second, surpassing the best published results for any 2 CPU 64-bit system, as of February 14, 2005. Furthermore, Sun's server beats Dell's result of 54,617 JBBops's that was achieved on the 2-way Itanium-based server running Windows OS, by 17%.
SPEC CPU2000 is an industry-standard benchmark that measures CPU and memory intensive computing tasks. It is made up of two benchmark suites focused on integer and floating point performance. As of February 14, 2005, the Sun Fire V20z server posted the new x86 World-Record score of 2036 on the floating point intensive SPECfp2000 suite of the benchmark, as well as the best 2-way result of 46.5 on the SPECfp_rate2000 suite. The enhanced server exhibited improved scalability and optimized performance and was using the compiler suite from PathScale, Inc.
The Sun Fire V20z server using the latest AMD64 implementation of the standard Java Platform (Java 2 Platform (J2SE(TM) 5.0) posted a new 2-way 64-bit world record result on the SPEC JBB2000 benchmark (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Java(TM) Business Benchmark). The benchmark measures the implementation of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) as well as the performance of the underlying operating system, scalability of processors and memory on Shared Memory Processors (SMPs) platforms. The Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 250 processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, delivered 61,314 SPECjbb2000 operations per second, surpassing the best published results for any 2 CPU 64-bit system, as of February 1, 2005.
The Sun Fire V20z server, configured with two AMD Opteron(TM) Model 250 processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, achieved a new World Record SPEC OMPM2001 result of 6,033 for all systems executing two parallel threads, as of February 1, 2005. SPEC OMPM2001, is a key benchmark used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications. It represents a collection of C and FORTRAN applications that employ the OpenMP programming model and is used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. These applications were compiled using the latest Sun Studio 10 development environment, which contributed to as much as a 20% boost in performance, when compared with Sun's 2-thread Linux-based result of 5,000.
The combination of Sun Fire V20z and Sun Fire V40z servers running Sun\'s Solaris OS delivered a world-record SPECjAppServer2002 Multiple Node benchmark result, as of September 19, 2004. Two Sun Fire V20z application servers, each equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 250 2.4 GHz processors, and a Sun Fire V40z database server, equipped with four AMD Opteron Model 850 2.4 GHz processors, delivered a result of 1363.88 TOPS@MultipleNode. With a price/performance of US$82.74/TOPS@MultipleNode, this result sets a new World Record and demonstrates the ability to build the complete infrastructure solution based on industry-leading technologies.
The Sun Fire V20z server demonstrated outstanding performance on the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, including a World Record floating point result in the 2 CPU x86 server category, as of July 26, 2004 . 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. Sun Fire V20z achieved a SPECfp_rate2000 result of 37.2 using compilers from Pathscale, Inc. and The Portland Group.
Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 250 2.4 GHz processors and running Zeus Web Server version 4.2r4, has demonstrated outstanding performance in secure web serving by delivering a result of 2500 conforming connections on SPECweb99_SSL benchmark. This is a World Record SPECweb99_SSL result for all 2 CPU systems, as of July 26, 2004. It demonstrates Sun's commitment to deliver exceptional, high-performance systems, resulting from a strategic alliance with AMD.
Sun achieved record results for the SPECjbb2000 benchmark (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Java Business Benchmark 2000) with JDK 5.0 running on a Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 250 2.4 GHz processors. This result underscores the J2SE 5.0 software\'s unprecedented scalability and delivers 59,648 SPECjbb2000 operations per second, surpassing the best published result for any 2 CPU 64-bit system as of July 26, 2004.
The Sun Fire V20z server, running Oracle Application Server 10g, has achieved an overall SPECjAppServer2002 price/performance World Record (as of May 18,2004) and offers better price/performance than previous DualNode results. Two Sun Fire V20z servers, each equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 248 2.2 GHz processors, delivered a result of 690.13 TOPS@DualNode for the SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark. This result delivered a World Record price/performance of US$101.10/TOPS@DualNode in the DualNode category.
The Sun Fire V20z server, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 250 2.4 GHz processors, 128 KB L1 cache, 1MB L2 cache, 16 GB main memory, SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (64-bit), Oracle 9i, and SAP 4.70 (32-bit), has achieved the best result on 2-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark. As of August 8, 2004, the result of 456 SAP SD benchmark users with 1.95 seconds average dialog response time and measured throughput of 137,000 dialog steps per hour (or 45,670 fully processed line items per hour) is the best posted result for 2 CPU systems. The SAP SD Standard Application benchmark is a Two-Tier e-business performance test that is indicative of full business workloads with complete order processing and invoice processing. The benchmark also demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system, and represents the critical tasks performed in real-world e-business environments. The benchmark fully complies with the SAP Benchmark Council regulations and have been audited and certified by SAP AG. SAP certification number 2004047.
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