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| Sun's x64 Servers and Workstations with AMD Opteron Processors Sun Microsystems has announced the availability of Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers and Sun Ultra Workstations powered by the newest single-core AMD Opteron Model 156, 256 and 856 processors. The faster processor speeds, combined with the inherent performance advantages of Sun's x64 servers and workstations, give customers increased processing power and a performance edge over competitive systems. In addition to more than 70 world record results posted to date, the Sun Fire x64 systems, powered by the latest single-core AMD Opteron processors, have established 16 new performance records. Sun Fire x64 servers upheld eight world records across the product line, while running the array of supported Operating Systems (OS) that include Solaris, SUSE and Red Hat Linux, and Windows. Notably, the combination of the Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 11 software produced three World Records on SPEC CPU 2000 benchmark: - The Sun Fire V40z server has the best result for all 4-CPU x86 systems on SPECfp_rate2000 and effectively doubles the performance of the Dell PowerEdge 6850, equipped with 4 Intel Xeon processors. - The Sun Fire X4100 and Sun Fire X4200 servers beat all other 2-CPU x86 servers on SPECfp_rate2000, easily trumping the performance of the HP ProLiant DL360 G4p, by 72%. - The Sun Fire X2100 server is the fastest single socket x86 system on SPECfp2000, faster than the IBM eServer xSeries 306m server, that uses Intel Pentium CPU, by over 15%. Based on real-world applications, the SPEC CPU2000 suite measures the performance of the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system, effectively providing a comparative measure of compiler and OS performance, when executed on identical hardware. The above results were obtained using the Solaris 10 OS and surpass those captured under SUSE Linux, thus demonstrating the true capabilities of Sun's software. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation and the newest Sun Ultra 40 Workstation, using AMD Opteron processors Model 156 and 256 respectively, add another eight world records to the already extensive list of ground-breaking benchmarks. The highlights include: - World Record on SPEC APC Pro/Engineer Wildfire 2.0 Benchmark This updated benchmark, tailored to the popular CAD/CAM/CAE application, now supports 64-bit operating systems and uses a complex model of a race car assembly to exercise graphics, CPU and I/O areas of system performance. The Sun Ultra 20 Workstation, outfitted with an NVIDIA Quadro FX 3450 graphics card and running Windows XP. - World Record on SPECint2000 Benchmark The Sun Ultra 40 workstation, running SUSE Linux, beats the closest competing workstation from Dell by 10%, demonstrating top performance on the integer-heavy part of the SPEC CPU 2000 benchmark. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |