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Sun Ups UltraSPARC Server Performance With Solaris 10
At its Network Computing '04Q4 launch, Sun Microsystems Inc announced that the
best selling 4-way UNIX server in the industry, the Sun Fire V440, just got
better thanks to the new 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC IIIi processor running the Solaris
10 Operating System (OS). Additionally, Sun previewed the radical new Chip
Multithreading (CMT) technology used in its Niagara processor design, due to
hit the market in 2006, with 32 high-performance threads on a single piece of
silicon.
"The key to unlocking the potential of Sun's new Niagara processor-based
systems will be the ability to manage the highly threaded environment using
Solaris," said Kevin Krewell, senior analyst for Microprocessor Report. "Here,
Sun has a significant advantage over the open-source Linux operating system.
Niagara pushes the envelope of highly threaded yet power efficient server
systems."
"Solaris 10 will dramatically increase the performance of our existing and
future UltraSPARC systems," said David Yen, executive vice president of
scalable systems group at Sun Microsystems Inc. "From the current design of
our UltraSPARC IIIi-based systems all the way to the radical architecture of
the Niagara processor, Sun is completely rethinking how systems are
architected in order to provide the best application throughput in the most
dense and lowest power form factor in the industry."
Solaris 10 Makes UltraSPARC Faster
The industry leading innovation in the Solaris 10 OS will allow Sun's existing
UltraSPARC system customers to dramatically improve server performance without
changing their hardware environment. For example, according to internal
benchmarks, customers who upgrade to the Solaris 10 OS on their UltraSPARC
systems can benefit from a 47 to 73 percent increase in Web Server performance
from the Solaris 9 and Solaris 8 OS, respectively.
Additionally, the new features in Solaris 10 have been optimized for
UltraSPARC IV and UltraSPARC IIIi-based systems to further increase system
speed, efficiency and overall throughput. Starting at under $12,000, the new
Sun Fire V440, running the Solaris 10 OS, is setting the standard for single
threaded application performance:
- Sun Fire V440 record breaking price-performance on Solaris 10: Running
Solaris 10 and operating at 1.6 GHz, Sun's best selling UltraSPARC IIIi Sun
Fire V440 server achieved world record price-performance among all TPC-H@100GB
submissions. This is a price/performance improvement of more than 32 percent
over the previous V440 submission. At $54,276.55, the Sun Fire V440 server
offers the lowest total cost of ownership of any 4-way submission at 100GB by
15 percent. In second place is the 1.28GHz Sun Fire V440 at $67,704.
Early results are also demonstrating significant performance enhancements for
the Solaris 10 OS running on Sun's dual-core UltraSPARC IV-based systems:
- Sun Fire V490 leads the data warehouse pack with Solaris 10: The 4-way Sun
Fire V490 server achieved world record price/performance running Solaris 10 on
the 1-TB TPC-H benchmark, demonstrating the highest performance data
warehousing and database architecture at this price point. The Sun Fire V490
server delivered 2,958 QphH@1000GB at a price performance of
US$52/QphH@1000GB.
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 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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