Sun Blade T6340 Server Module Posts the Fastest Dual-Processor Result on an Enterprise Java Workload

(As of Tuesday, 21 October 2008)

Oracle’s Sun Blade T6340 server module, running two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors at 1.4GHz, delivered a world record dual-processor result of 388,456 on this Java-based enterprise benchmark. SPECjbb2005 benchmark results confirm the Sun Blade T6340 server module as one of the industry's highest performing and most efficient platforms for deployment of secure Java-based enterprise applications.

SPECjbb2005 (Java Business Benchmark) measures the performance of an application server implemented in Java in the middle tier. This benchmark is based on the order processing of a wholesale supplier application. The metrics given are the number of SPECjbb2005 Business Operations per Second (bops)(and SPECjbb2005 bops/Java Virtual Machine (JVM) (bops per JVM instance).

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• The Sun Blade T6340 server module, equipped with two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors at 1.4GHz, enabled Oracle’s CoolThreads blade server to deliver unprecedented levels of Java performance, and set a new two- processor world record result on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark.
• HotSpot running on top of Oracle Solaris 10 10/08, the forthcoming update to Oracle Solaris, set a new standard for scalability by leveraging all 128 threads available in the two UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors powering the Sun Blade T6340 server module, allowing customers to deploy services with higher levels of scalability and efficiency than ever before possible.
• Compared to the IBM Blade Center HS21XM blade server equipped with two quad-core Intel Xeon processors, the dual-processor Sun Blade T6340 server module delivered more than 25% better performance.
• Compared to the HP Integrity BL465c blade with dual-core AMD Opteron CPUs, the Sun Blade T6340 server module delivered 79% better performance and was able to sustain 8x the number of JVMs within a single physical system.
• The Sun Blade T6340 server module, running Oracle Solaris 10, demonstrated 4.8x better performance than the HP rx2660 server with two 1.6GHz Intel Itanium2 processors and delivered much better Java scalability with 16x the number of JVMs per physical server than the HP server.
• These results demonstrate that the UltraSPARC T2 Plus chip — the third generation of chip multithreading (CMT) technology processors — continues to show its ability to handle enterprise scale Java workloads.

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