Johannesburg, 18 Feb 2005
Sun Microsystems has announced a series of world record results with its Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV-based servers running SPECweb99_SSL for secure Web-based applications and Linpack for high performance computing.
According to Helen Constantinides, Practice Lead: Datacentre and Storage at Sun Microsystems sub-Saharan Africa, this further demonstrates Sun's ability to deliver optimised application performance and breakthrough price/performance using Sun's balanced system architecture.
"Since the introduction of UltraSPARC IV-based systems, Sun Fire servers have set 14 world records across a range of industry standard and ISV-specific benchmarks," she says.
The SPECweb99_SSL is an industry-standard measure of secure Web and application serving performance, relevant to all organisations looking to create secure network computing infrastructures such as secure online banking and e-commerce, provision of public health services or supply chain management.
Sun's world record SPECweb99_SSL result was over 18% faster than the previous record from HP and supported 10 700 conforming connections on a cluster of four Sun Fire V490 servers, each powered by four UltraSPARC IV 1050MHz processors.
This result was achieved using Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP2, a 'real world' Web server on the Solaris operating system (OS) that demonstrated a secure Web solution can sustain a large and scalable number of high throughput secure Web server connections.
The Sun Fire E6900 server utilising UltraSPARC IV processors demonstrated more than a double performance improvement over the previous generation Sun Fire 6800 servers on the Linpack benchmark.
"This is attributable to chip-multithreaded processors combined with Solaris 10 optimised for multi-threaded workloads. The Linpack benchmark is a high performance computing benchmark that measures a computer's floating-point rate of execution. The results reflect the computer system's capability to solve dense linear equations," she adds.
Previously announced results on Sun Fire midrange servers were achieved with Siebel Systems and other key ISVs for their enterprise applications on the UltraSPARC IV processors and Solaris OS.
"These results demonstrate that Sun builds systems optimised to run in real-world application performance versus benchmarks that are tuned for lab environments. The high availability, reliability and record-breaking performance of Solaris running on Sun Fire systems makes it an ideal platform for the most demanding organisations running mission-critical enterprise, High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) and compute-intensive applications," she concludes.
For more information on Sun Fire systems and world record price/performance on real-world applications, visit www.sun.com/servers/entry/v490/benchmarks.html and www.sun.com/servers/midrange/sunfire_e2900/benchmarks.html.
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