SUN'S 24-WAY MIDFRAME SERVER SETS NEW WORLD RECORD FOR PEOPLESOFT 8 GENERAL LEDGER WITH COMBINATION EDITING BENCHMARK TESTSUN'S 24-WAY MIDFRAME SERVER SETS NEW WORLD RECORD FOR PEOPLESOFT 8 GENERAL LEDGER WITH COMBINATION EDITING BENCHMARK TESTSun Fire 6800 Server With 24 UltraSPARC III CPUs Delivers Double the Performance of Nearest Competitor on a Processor-to-Processor Basis
PALO ALTO, CA -- AUGUST 13, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:SUNW) today announced another new benchmark world record for PeopleSoft 8 General Ledger. A part of PeopleSoft's industry-leading Financial Management solution, PeopleSoft General Ledger (GL) gives customers extensive financial control, flexible system design, streamlined global processing and audience-relevant reporting. The 24-way configured Sun Fire 6800 Midframe server running the industry-leading Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) blew the competition away, achieving double the overall performance of its nearest comparably configured competitor, again proving the superior efficiency of the UltraSPARC III processor. Configured with 24 750 MHz UltraSPARC III CPUs and 48 GB of memory, the Sun Fire 6800 server achieved the world's best result with 9,560,229 Journal Lines per hour for PeopleSoft 8 General Ledger with Combination Editing, Extra-Large Volume Model. Benchmark tests were also run without Combination Editing, resulting in the Sun Fire server showing a 45 percent performance advantage over the nearest competitor. Further extending its competitive edge, the Sun Fire 6800 server demonstrated an unprecedented level of system availability with its unique redundancy features that make it resilient to failures without degrading performance. Particularly, Sun's innovative redundant component interconnection technology, which is not available in competitive systems' designs, puts its performance over the top with its ability to dynamically split one system into multiple systems, duplicate hardware components, and expand the number of processors while work is in progress. To test the Midframe's resiliency, one of the system clocks was removed, in addition to half of the system interconnect, and portions of power and cooling. Even with these simulated system failures, the Sun Fire 6800 24-way Midframe server experienced no degradation of performance, demonstrating its competitively superior real-world redundancy capabilities. "A two fold advantage in performance over the competition with our 750 MHz CPUs clearly demonstrates the performance prowess of the Sun Fire 6800 server," said Shahin Khan, Sun vice president of marketing, Computer Systems, Sun Microsystems. "The unparalleled level of redundancy and the faster and more efficient performance of the UltraSPARC III processor make the Sun Fire 6800 server a superior machine for handling the explosive growth of data, users, devices and bandwidth in today's data centers." The workload created by the PeopleSoft 8 General Ledger Benchmark represents Large Batch runs typical of many different data center workloads, which is greater than any other standard benchmark. The tables being updated in the test are part of a complex schema with 10,065 tables as opposed to TPC-C's simple 9-table database. Sun Fire systems are equally proficient at running DSS databases as represented by the recent TPC-H SF1000 record on both a price performance and a per-CPU basis. This most recent world record marks the third for the Sun Fire 6800 Midframe server on PeopleSoft applications. The Sun Fire 6800 server with 6 CPUs was the previous owner of the PeopleSoft 8 General Ledger benchmark record. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. With $18.3 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Sun Fire and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and in other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries exclusively licensed through X/Open Company, Ltd.PR Contacts for Press and Analysts:
Press Release Finder
| |||||||
 |
|