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Breaking News - Platforms:
Sun Sets Records With UltraSPARC IV, AMD Opteron-Based Systems
During its second quarterly Network Computer '04 launch, Sun Microsystems Inc
announced that every one of the new Solaris Operating System and UltraSPARC
IV-based midrange and high-end systems has set a world-record or benchmark,
bringing the total to 37 world- records to date. Additionally, Sun continues
to power the Solaris OS and Linux applications faster than ever before with
new "land-speed" records on its first AMD Opteron processor-based server, the
Sun Fire V20z.
"Sun's systems strategy is focused on providing the best performance for our
customers' real-world applications now and into the future," said David Yen,
executive vice president of the Scalable Systems Group at Sun. "Whether they
need the raw network processing power of our Opteron-based systems or the
increased throughput of the new UltraSPARC IV-based enterprise servers, the
tight integration between the Solaris OS, system architecture and Java is the
key ingredient in our price/performance leadership."
Setting World Record Benchmarks With Sun
Sun continues to achieve record-breaking performance including:
- The SPECjAppServer2002 world record for the Sun Fire V20z Server running
Oracle Application Server 10g in the DualNode category for price/performance.
- The two-tier SAP R/3 4.70 Standard Sales and Distribution benchmark on the
Sun Fire E20K system.
- The Manugistics NetWORKS Fulfillment v7.1 supply chain management benchmark
on the Sun Fire E6900 system.
- The NotesBench R6iNotes benchmark, using the Lotus Domino 6.0 Mail server.
The Sun Fire E2900 delivered world record price/performance of $18.18 per user
and handled the most users per processor in the NotesBench R6iNotes benchmark,
outperforming all competitors. The Sun Fire E2900, equipped with 12
dual-threaded, 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC IV processors (each with 16MB cache), ran
1.87 times faster than a similarly configured UltraSPARC III system, proving
the increased scalability and power of these first generation throughput
computing systems. In the NotesBench R6iNotes benchmark the Sun Fire E2900,
running the Solaris OS, was 30 percent cheaper per user, with seven times
faster response time compared to the IBM eServer Blade HS40.
For detailed results visit:
www.notesbench.org/bench.nsf?OpenDatabase .
New Customers Line-Up For UltraSPARC IV-based Systems
Customer demand for the newest UltraSPARC IV-based systems running the Solaris
OS continues to gain momentum. And thousands of customers are currently
previewing Solaris 10 through Software Express, allowing them to implement
technologies unavailable anywhere else in production environments today. For
details, go to www.sun.com/softwareexpress . With productivity and
performance enhancements starting at 50 percent improvement and catapulting
beyond 100 percent for some customers, the UltraSPARC IV-based systems are
appealing to new and existing Sun customers. Enterprise customers who have
recently purchased the new Sun Fire E2900, E4900, E6900, E20K and E25K systems
include: Boeing, Oregon State University, Siemens, Sabre Holdings,
DaimlerChrysler, Vodafone and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC).
The new UltraSPARC IV systems continue to demonstrate Sun's leadership in the
UNIX market.
The NRC's Canadian Bioinformatics Resource (CBR) is an early adopter of the
Sun Fire E20K enterprise system. The NRC-CBR has 1,200 users around the world
and will be opening a new facility and datacenter this summer in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, with the intention of expanding their computing resources to sites
globally.
"We selected the Sun Fire E20K for its tremendous scalability and throughput
computing potential," said Terry Dalton, manager of NRC Canadian
Bioinformatics Resource. "The system will replace two older enterprise class
systems and will give us the opportunity to add applications, projects and
users to keep our datacenter world-class."
With Sun's commitment to binary compatibility, customers can deploy
applications once and upgrade at any time with Sun's hot swap Dynamic
Reconfiguration technology. The advantage is clear: no costly downtime or
inconvenient disruption to business. This seamless upgrade path makes Sun
systems a smarter investment over the long term as customers evolve their data
centers to respond to changing business needs. Attractive offers from the Sun
Upgrade Advantage Program have given customers strong incentive to stay with
the SPARC and Solaris OS combination. For more information visit
www.sun.com/ibb/tradeins/mid-frame.html .
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 http://sun.com/ .
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