 |
|
DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / JULY 21, 2003; VOL. 2 NO. 29
|
Breaking News - Operating Systems
& Middleware:
Unisys Introduces 1st
Mainframe-Scale Windows Java Solution
Unisys Corporation has announced the availability of Java Virtual Machine
(JVM) for ES7000 servers, the only Java computer platform that takes advantage
of Microsoft's most powerful operating environments. Now enterprise solutions
created with Java software technology can tackle workloads that once could be
handled only by expensive Unix-based servers by applying the 32-processor
scalability of the Unisys ES7000.
This new Unisys JVM, which can be downloaded from the Internet free of
charge,
is the only Intel-based solution for Java applications to provide the benefits
of a single, expandable "scale-up" server environment with more than eight
processors. It enables enterprises to avoid the complexity associated with
managing clusters of many small servers for large workloads and eliminates the
manual, labor-intensive balancing of workloads that clustering involves.
Equally important, it supports large databases on a single server, avoiding
the performance penalties of partitioning the database across a farm of small
servers.
"You no longer need to endure server sprawl to run large Java applications
that take advantage of the simplicity and superior economics of Windows," said
Kevin McHugh, vice president of Unisys Platform Marketing. "And you're no
longer at the mercy of Unix-style pricing and restricted choice of technology
to get scale-up manageability and performance."
The Unisys JVM is designed for the enterprise characteristics of
Microsoft's
most scalable operating systems: Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition,
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Datacenter Server and
Windows 2000 Advanced Server. It is based on Java Hotspot technology, which
enables it to take advantage of the extensive memory resources and other large
system capabilities of the Unisys ES7000.
Benchmarks demonstrate performance comparable to costlier Unix systems
Tested
under SPECjbb2000, the computer industry's standard benchmark for comparing
the performance of Java-based solutions, the Unisys JVM on the Unisys ES7000
server achieved 234,928 operations per second. This performance ranks the
Unisys ES7000 in the top ten of all systems ever tested under the SPECjbb2000
benchmark. The SPECjbb2000 list is dominated by costlier 64-bit Unix systems
with substantially more processors and more memory than the Unisys ES7000. The
Unisys ES7000 also achieved the best performance among all 32-bit servers
tested, whether running Windows or Linux.
The Unisys benchmark was performed on a Unisys ES7000 server with 32 Intel
Xeon processors MP at 2000 MHz with 2MB of L3 cache (on die), 32MB of L4 cache
and 4096 MB of memory. SPECjbb2000 benchmark results and related detail are
available at www.spec.org.
|