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Platforms:
Sun, Oracle Set Application Server
Performance Record
Sun Microsystems announced a world record SPECjAppServer2002 benchmark
running
Oracle Application Server 10g on a heterogeneous Sun configuration. The world
record performance was obtained on a multi-tier operating system and processor
architecture, which blended both the Sun Fire 6800 midframe server -- powered
by the Solaris Operating System (OS) with the SPARC processor architecture --
and the Sun Fire V65x server, powered by Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 with the
latest x86 chip technology.
This is the first SPECjAppServer2002 record performance established on a
heterogeneous chip architecture, and boasts a 36 percent improvement in
price-performance over a competing UNIX vendor's record, established on a
homogeneous, Intel-based platform. The announcement follows a watershed moment
for the Sun-Oracle alliance set May 19 in San Francisco when Scott McNealy,
Sun's chairman, president and CEO, and Larry Ellison, Oracle's chairman and
CEO, reaffirmed their commitment to attack cost and complexity and extend
choice, value and enterprise-level features in the low-cost computing space.
Once again, Sun and Oracle have set the bar for choice, performance and
price-performance by providing cost-effective, highly reliable solutions
customers have come to expect from the 21-year alliance.
The Sun and Oracle record-breaking SPECjAppServer2002 MultipleNode
benchmark
achieved 2,408.73 TOPS@MultipleNode at 700.07 US$/TOPS@MultipleNode. The
benchmark configuration included a seven-node Sun Fire V65x server cluster,
each equipped with two Intel Xeon 3.06 GHz processors running Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 2.1, and linked to the SPARC-based Sun Fire 6800 database
server running Oracle Application Server 10g. This world record result
represents the highest SPECjAppServer2002 result in any category, besting the
nearest competitor in both performance and price performance. Oracle
Application Server 10g is a fully compliant, J2EE technology-based application
server, and helps demonstrate the paramount role of Java technology in this
high performance/low cost benchmark.
SPECjAppServer2002, a Java technology-based enterprise application server
multi-tier benchmark, is the only industry accepted benchmark to measure
performance of J2EE technology-based solutions, and is designed to model a
typical Fortune 500 manufacturing business. The SPECjAppServer 2002 benchmark
exercises the Java enterprise application server and the Java Virtual Machine
(JVM), and leverages J2EE APIs to connect to a database. SPECjAppServer2002
expresses performance in terms of two metrics. The first metric is Total
Operations Per Second (TOPS), which is determined by the number of order
transactions plus the number of manufacturing work orders divided by the
measurement period in second. The second metric is Price/TOPS -- the price of
the System Under Test (including hardware, software and support) divided by
the TOPS.
Published results are highly influential as customers weigh price and
performance -- in addition to reputation, reliability and security -- when
selecting mission critical solutions to power their business.
On Sept. 8, the companies announced Oracle Database 10g will run on
multiple
UNIX-based systems from Sun, including Solaris OS on SPARC, Solaris OS on x86,
and Red Hat or SUSE Linux on x86. The Oracle Application Server 10g benchmark
recorded on Sun's heterogeneous configuration represents realistic workloads
typical of most customers' data center usage, and highlights Sun's competitive
advantage in performance on a wide range of large-scale enterprise
applications. This latest benchmark result continues a 21-year history of
successful performance engineering guided by Sun and Oracle's unbreakable
commitment to innovation, choice and value. More information on the
announcement can be found at www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/results.
About Sun Microsystems
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 www.sun.com/.
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