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SANTA CLARA, CA March 26, 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA), today announced new benchmark performance results for the GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) using Intel-based Sun Fire x4450 servers. In rigorous testing for scalability, the combined platform performed 1.8 million reads per second and 1.1 million writes per second, with sub-one-millisecond latency, and also topped 16,000 page generations per second with six-millisecond latency over a local area network.

“With the GigaSpaces XAP running on Sun’s Java HotSpot Virtual Machine (VM), application architects do not have to make a choice between distributed and vertically scaled architectures; that is, between scaling out and scaling up,” said Ambreesh Khanna, Global Head of Financial Services for Sun Microsystems. GigaSpaces XAP enables applications to take advantage of the scalability of multiprocessing while realizing the benefits of a distributed architecture.”

Achieved in testing with the full Monte Carlo Value at Risk method of risk simulations for trading portfolios, these results demonstrate that significant performance enhancements are possible using High Performance Computing (HPC) as the infrastructure is scaled. Traders and analysts can now cost-effectively perform full-risk simulations on their portfolios in mere minutes, instead of hours, and run pre-trade scenarios in milliseconds.

Benchmarks are always going to be a topic of debate. The performance you get technically and operationally from your server is only going to be as good as the application running on it, and the infrastructure working around the server. Ensuring that you’ve got an optimized operating system, the latest relevant firmware, components configured in the right way and your network operating without bottlenecks are all examples of this. Regardless, well done to Sun for achieving these results, latency of course being an important aspect of delivery and functionality in HPC/financial markets.

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