Sun Fire Servers Outshine IBM's In Java Technology Performance By Up To 35 Percent

Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire 6800 server, which uses 24 award- winning UltraSPARC III processors running Sun's Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.3.1. sets the world record of 109,146 operations per second for server-side Java technology performance using the industry-standard SPECjbb2000 b...

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Published in:PR Newswire p. 1
Format: Newsletter
Language:English
Published: New York PR Newswire Association LLC 04.04.2001
Subjects:
Efficiency
Java
Servers
Software
Trademarks
California
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Summary:Sun Microsystems' Sun Fire 6800 server, which uses 24 award- winning UltraSPARC III processors running Sun's Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition 1.3.1. sets the world record of 109,146 operations per second for server-side Java technology performance using the industry-standard SPECjbb2000 benchmark. The Sun Fire 6800 was benchmarked against IBM's AS/400e Server Series. This system was also re-configured to run 8-way and 12-way SPECjbb2000 tests. In these, it achieved 43,353 and 62,463 JBB operations per second, respectively. The results demonstrate near-linear performance scalability and efficiency with the new product family. The SPECjbb2000 benchmark is an objective benchmark developed to represent real world performance of the Java platform on servers. It measures the performance of CPUs, caches, memory hierarchy and the scalability of Symmetric MultiProcessor (SMP) systems. It also measures the implementation of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) including code generation, garbage collection, thread synchronization and some aspects of the operating system. According to SPEC, combining a JVM with a high SPECjbb2000 throughput with a database tuned for online transaction processing will provide businesses with a fast and robust multi-tier environment.