BEA Demonstrates Market's Fastest Benchmark Results on BEA JRockit Using Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processors
Continued Engineering Collaboration between BEA and Intel Drives Industry-Leading Java Platform Performance
SAN JOSE, Calif.June 26, 2006BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS), a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software, today announced new results demonstrating that customers using BEAs JRockit, the worlds fastest Java Virtual Machine (JVM), on servers powered by new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors (formerly code-named Woodcrest), demonstrated approximately a 2X performance gain over competing JVMs running on similar hardware. This increase can help provide customers with a better price-performance ratio and improved energy efficiency from the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon based servers.
Its gratifying to see that Intel values BEAs technological innovation, said Wai Wong, executive vice president, products, BEA Systems, Inc. The early fruits of this renewed relationship have set the performance bar even higher in J2EE deployments. The combination of BEA and Intel solutions is designed to help customers achieve the highest levels of performance and scalability without breaking the bank.
BEAs most recent benchmark with JRockit* was achieved using a Dell* PowerEdge* 1950 server outfitted with two, dual-core Intel Xeon 5100 series processors With a SPECjbb2005 score of 99,485 business operations per second (bops), the BEA server with Intel processsors had better performance over a two processor, dual-core AMD Opteron-based machine and a two processor, dual-core IBM Power5+ based machine. BEA JRockit on the Intel Xeon processor was up to 96% faster than the Sun HotSpot* on AMD Opteron and up to 62% faster than the IBM J9 on IBM Power5+ based servers.*
BEAs latest published benchmark results highlight the powerful solution available when using the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5100 Series combined with BEAs optimized JRockit* platform. said Richard Wirt, corporate vice president, Senior Intel Fellow and General Manager of Intels Software and Solutions Group. Users can realize new levels of Java*-based performance and scalability while reducing capital and operating costs in the data center.
The dual core Intel Xeon processors utilize the companys new Core microarchitecture, which is designed to lower power and thermal burdens in server data centers, thus helping to increase responsiveness, productivity and energy efficiency across Intel-based client and server platforms.
BEA JRockit is designed for optimal performance for Java* based applications in large-scale, enterprise-wide environments. With it, Java developers can achieve out-of-the-box application performance and scalability for their applications without needing to know JVM internals. Instead, progressive optimization features and dynamic memory management can help enable the JVM to automatically deliver constant, optimal application performance.
Together, BEA and Intel can help customers evolve their inflexible architectures and frozen assets into fluid, agile resources. BEA technology and Intel-based servers are optimized down to the JVM level and are designed to help allow customers to improve responsiveness, increase productivity, reduce data center costs and drive growth.
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About BEA
BEA Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: BEAS) is a world leader in enterprise infrastructure software. BEA delivers the unified SOA platform for business transformation and optimization in order to improve cost structures and grow new revenue streams. Information about how BEA is enabling customers to achieve Business LiquidITy can be found www.bea.com.
About SPEC
SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to measure the performance of the newest generation of high-performance computers. Its membership comprises leading computer hardware and software vendors, universities, and research organizations worldwide. Steve Realmuto, a senior software engineer for BEA is on the Board of Directors. For complete details on benchmark results and the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, please see http://www.spec.org/.
About SPECjbb2005
SPECjbb2005 was developed by SPECs Java subcommittee, with contributions from BEA, Darmstadt University of Technology, HP, IBM, Intel and Sun. The benchmarks workload represents an order processing application for a wholesale supplier. Systems integrators and end users can use the benchmark to evaluate performance of hardware and software aspects of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) servers. Hardware vendors can use SPECjbb2005 to analyze their platforms scalability when running Java applications. Software vendors can use it to evaluate the efficiency of their JVMs, just-in-time compilers (JITs), garbage collectors, thread implementations, and operating systems.
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