Record performance from Sun

Johannesburg, South Africa  (01 Aug. 2009)  –  Sun Microsystems has demonstrated the robust performance of its Open Network Systems with record-breaking results on industry-standard business intelligence/ data warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks.

Sun also announced good performance on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test. The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server delivered a new eight-processor, non-clustered price/performance record on the TPC-H ©300GB benchmark, highlighting the data warehousing and decision support system capabilities of the server. The TPC-H benchmark is designed to evaluate the performance of various BIDW and Decision Support Systems (DSS) systems at various database sizes, also referred to as scale factor (SF). Sun's first TPC-H publication using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 beats the competing server by nearly 15% on price/performance and uses 20% fewer disks.

A cluster of 43 Sun Fire X4540 storage servers equipped with AMD Opteron processors running the OpenSolaris operating system set new performance and price/performance records on the TPC-H benchmark at the 30TB scale factor - the highest scale factor with published results. The Sun Fire X4540 storage servers combined with the ParAccel Analytic Database (PADB), a high-speed, low-effort, massively parallel (MPP) columnar database management system for data warehousing and analytics, was seven times faster and provided 16 times better price/performance than the only other posted result. Sun's solution consumed only one-third the power in less than one-sixth the floor space of that system, while delivering a fully mirrored storage pool with almost 1 000 fewer disks, significantly reducing management costs and complexity.

The Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage System propelled the Sun Fire X4275 server, powered by two Intel Xeon X5570 processors, to a new world record on SPECmail2009 benchmark, a test designed to simulate real-world corporate e-mail environments. The Sun Fire X4275 server, running Java System Messaging Server 6.2 and the Solaris 10 OS, with two Sun Storage 7110 Unified Storage Systems, supported 1/3 more users using approximately half the number of disk drives compared to competitive systems using direct attached storage.

The Sun Fire X4600 M2 server (8 processors/32 cores/32 threads), running AMD Opteron processors, set an eight-processor world record on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark with 6,050 SAP SD Benchmark users running the new SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode).

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