Sun Announces Nine World Records on Industry Standard Benchmarks
Sun Fire X2100 Server09/12/2005 Single CPU World Record on SPEC JBB2005 benchmark The Sun Fire X2100 server set a new world record on SPECjbb2005 benchmark, which is a follow on to the popular SPEC JBB2000 suite. SPECjbb2005 provides a new enhanced workload, implemented in a more object-oriented manner to reflect how real-world applications are designed and introduces new features to make the benchmark a more realistic reflection of today's applications. The Sun Fire X2100 server posted single processor world-record result of 16,070 business operations per second (bops) using Solaris 10 operating system (OS). Since the benchmark stresses the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, as well as the performance of the OS, it was used to demonstrate that Java HotSpot Server Virtual Machine can deliver outstanding results and optimized performance regardless of the underlying OS. Identical server configuration was used to conduct two more SPECjbb2005 tests using the same version of the virtual machine. The first test was run under MS Windows 2003 Server OS and produced the score of 16,053 bops and the second test used SuSe Linux Enterprise Server 9 OS and got the score of 15,172 bops. Java HotSpot once again proved to be a stellar performer, when used in combination with top-performing x64 servers from Sun.
Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 Servers09/12/2005 Top result on 2-thread SPEC OMPM2001 HPC benchmark On the SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark, that is used to compare the performance of shared memory servers executing compute-intensive scientific applications, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers with two SINGLE-CORE AMD Opteron 254 processors produced a score of 7,612 and set the new World Record in 2-thread category. The benchmark represents a collection of applications that are used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry, mechanical design and several other areas. Not surprisingly, the 20 years of Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) systems expertise in combination with Solaris 10 OS features like Memory Placement Optimization (MPO) and Sun Studio 10 compiler software, allowed Sun's server to shine on this HPC (High-Performance Computing) workload.
09/12/2005 2-way World Record performance on SPECweb99_SSL benchmark The Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers, equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 254 processors and running Zeus Web Server, has demonstrated the World Record performance in secure web serving among all 2-processor systems, as of September 12, 2005. Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers delivered a result of 3,158 conforming connections on SPECweb99_SSL benchmark and outperformed the comparably equipped Xeon and Itanium2-based systems.
09/12/2005 World Record floating point performance for all x86-compatible systems On the compute intensive industry-standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers have achieved SPECfp2000 result of 2,344, setting a new world record for all x86-compatible systems, as of September 12, 2005. The Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers demonstrates at least 30% performance benefit when compared to the competitive servers outfitted with the Intel Xeon EM64T-capable family of processors. Specifically, on the floating point test, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers tops the performance of Dell PowerEdge 2850 and IBM xSeries 346 servers (1780 and 1807 respectively). Moreover, the new server easily surpasses the competitive systems powered by AMD Opteron processor, such as the HP Proliant DL145 G2 with a score of 2084, by over 12%. This result also highlights the combined power of the Sun Studio 11 software and Solaris 10 OS duo. The Sun Studio 11 software is the latest release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimized for the Solaris 10 operating system running on the latest Sun Fire servers.
09/12/2005 Two World Records in the 2-way and 4-way 64-bit JVM category on SPEC JBB2000 benchmark The Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers achieved 2-way and 4-way 64-bit JVM world-records on SPECjbb2000 benchmark, which emulates the business logic and objects of the server-side Java applications. The new high watermark 2-way score of 85,967 SPECjbb2000 operations per second (JBBops/s) and the 4-way score of 142,789 JBBops/s, clearly demonstrate that Solaris 10 and Java HotSpot Server Virtual Machine deliver outstanding results and optimized performance when used in combination with top-performing x64 servers from Sun. SPEC JBB2000 benchmark stresses 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.
09/12/2005 World Record floating point throughput performance for all 2-way x86-compatible systems On the compute intensive industry-standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers have achieved SPECfp_rate2000 result of 53.8, setting a new world record for all 2-way x86-compatible systems, as of September 12, 2005. The server, motivated by the Sun Studio 11 software, the latest release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimized for the Solaris 10 OS, has over 1.7 times the performance of Dell PowerEdge 1850 and HP DL360G4 servers and up to 1.68 times the performance of an IBM xSeries 336 server. Additionally, when equipped with the multi-core AMD Opteron Processors SE model 280, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers have posted the SPECfp_rate2000 result of 79.1 and demonstrated more than 1.5 times the performance of the competitive servers outfitted with the Intel Itanium2 or Xeon EM64T-capable family of processors. Specifically, on the floating point throughput test, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers tops the performance of Dell PowerEdge 6850 and HP rx1620-2 (52.5 and 50.4 respectively).
09/12/2005 Two World Records in the 2-way and 4-way category on SPEC JBB2005 benchmark Designed for enterprise applications in areas such as business transaction processing and server side Java, the Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers reached the new high ground on SPECjbb2005 benchmark, which is a follow on to the popular SPEC JBB2000 suite. SPECjbb2005 provides a new enhanced workload, implemented in a more object-oriented manner to reflect how real-world applications are designed and introduces new features to make the benchmark a more realistic reflection of today's applications. The Sun Fire X4100 and X4200 servers posted 2-way and 4-way world-record results of 27,004 business operations per second (bops) and 45,124 bops, respectively. The benchmark emulates the business logic and objects of the server-side Java applications, while stressing the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine and the scalability of the system's processors and memory.
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