Sun Fire E20K Server

  • 10/17/05   Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment v7
    • Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire E20K system running Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) has set a new Manugistics Fulfillment v7 benchmark world record benchmark. The Sun Fire E20K system achieved 66,744,558 SKUs/hr. Sun demonstrates industry-leading performance and price/performance on the 36-way Sun Fire E20K server (9) by beating the IBM P5-590 by 74 percent on performance, with a 2.2x percent price/performance advantage based on hardware category pricing.

      Many of the world's largest retailers use Manugistics solutions to reduce costs and improve customer service by replenishment planning at the store level. The Manugistics applications are built on open standards and architected to the Java2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE). The Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment v7 benchmark measures throughput results for real world complex retail supply chain management systems and workloads.

     
     
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