Sun Fire X4600 M2’s record performance
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug 07, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Sun Microsystems, Inc. (JAVA:
sun microsystems inc today announced the new SPECjbb2005 world record score, which beats all other x86 systems on the market. The Sun Fire(TM) X4600 M2 server, equipped with eight Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) model 8360SE processors and running the Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), posted an x86 World Record score of 683,542 SPECjbb2005 bops (85,443 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM). In the benchmark results, the Sun Fire X4600 M2 server demonstrated that it is 53% faster than the Dell PowerEdge R900 and is able to perform 75% more Java business operations than the Dell PowerEdge R905 in the same physical footprint.
Very cool, well done to SUN. Achieving the performance from your server is dependent on configuring all the individual elements of the IT:
- Application - using the latest patches/appropriate configuration/exploiting server chipset etc
- Operating system - using the latest patches/fixes and optimum configuration
- Drivers and firmware - using the latest firmware
- SAN/Networks - using san and networks configured for the platform and application
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