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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JUNE 30, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 26
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Breaking News -
Platforms:
Sun Fire 15K Server Sets Record
On SPEC Benchmark
Sun Microsystems, Inc. announced its flagship high-end server, the Sun Fire
15K, has delivered the industry's best peak performance results on the
SPECOMPL2001 benchmark. Outclassing both HP and SGI, the 72-processor Sun Fire
15K server, configured with 1.2 Ghz UltraSPARC III processors and the Solaris
Operating System, is the first server to break the 200,000 mark with a score
of 213,466, demonstrating the system'sability to efficiently scale and run
large parallel applications in high-performance and technical computing (HPTC)
environments.
The 72-processor Sun Fire 15K server delivered nearly 8 percent better peak
performance than its closest competitor, a 128-processor system from SGI; and
30 percent better peak performance than HP's 64-processor server. These
results underscore the power of Sun's crossbar-based SMP Sun Fire architecture
which allows memory-intensive HPTC applications to achieve industry-leading
scalability and faster time-to-solution.
Sun's broad product line has a long history of multiple CPU support, large
page features and memory placement optimization which enabled the Solaris OS
to handle the large datasets used by SPEC OMPL2001 and allowed the
applications to take advantage of the best possible placement of data in
memory.
The SPEC OMPL2001 benchmark measures the performance of a system's
processors,
memory architecture, operating system and compilers on compute-intensive
parallel processing applications based on the OpenMP standard. Components of
the SPEC OMPL2001 test cover a diverse set of important applications
including, fluid dynamics, computational chemistry, crash simulations,
structural analysis, and high-energy physics. OpenMP allows a user to write
directives to specify parallelism in an application. Sun has a long history
of providing
world-record peformance on both technical and commerical applications on
general purpose systems that demonstrate near-linear scalability on large
shared memory systems.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading
provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that make the
Net work. Sun can be found in more than 100 countries and on the World Wide
Web at sun.com.
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