Sun Microsystems has announced a new industry-standard benchmark record running Sun Studio 11 software and using Sun's Solaris 10 operating system (OS), on the recently launched, high-performing Sun Fire x64 (x86,64-bit) servers.
The Sun Studio 11 software is the upcoming release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimised for the Solaris 10 OS running on Sun Fire servers. The new record highlights the combined power of Sun Studio 11 and Solaris 10. It also builds on four additional benchmarks announced last month which showed that the new Sun Fire servers, when run with Sun Studio 11 and the Solaris 10 OS, performed at least 28% better than any x64 Intel-based servers in their class.
Sun Studio Software: next version delivers more world record performance Sun Studio 11 software, planned for release in November, will allow Sun customers to take advantage of performance improvements provided by compiler optimisations, on top of the faster performance achieved by the new Sun Fire x64 servers.
The world record SPECfp2000 results show that Sun Studio 11 software will provide up to a 10% boost in performance for Sun Fire x64 systems running the Solaris 10 OS. Detailed results can be found at: http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/x4100/benchmarks.jsp
The SPECfp2000 benchmark measured performance while running Sun Studio 11 software for two-way configurations of Sun Fire X4100 servers equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 254 processors. The servers, which were running the Solaris 10 OS using the Sun Studio 11 software compiler, set a new world record for all x86 compatible systems by delivering a SPECfp2000 floating point performance of 2 518 operations per second.
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Sun Studio software - available in English, Japanese and simplified Chinese - delivers outstanding performance when developing C, C++ and FORTRAN applications for the Solaris 10 OS. Built on the award-winning NetBeans Platform, Sun Studio software provides a comprehensive, productive environment for developing scalable 32- and 64-bit applications on Sun's newest UltraSPARC and AMD Opteron processor-based systems.
An enhanced graphical user interface helps to increase ease-of-use, reduce turnaround time for fixes and deliver greater debugging productivity. Performance analysis tools assist in delivery of highly optimised code. The Sun Studio 11 compilers uniquely exploit multi-processor systems to deliver greater performance by identifying parallel codes, automatically, to produce code for multi-threaded execution without modifying the source code. The Sun Studio software is available as a free download for the OpenSolaris community at www.opensolaris.org.
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