Sun Studio 10 software and Solaris 10 OS -- Dynamic Duo
Delivers Blistering Benchmark Results on Sun Fire Servers
Sun Sets New World
Record Results in SPEC OMPM2001
and SPEC JBB2000 Benchmarks
SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- March 30, 2005 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:SUNW) today announced the results of the latest series of
benchmark tests using Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), the
Sun Studio 10 software and the highest performing Sun Fire servers.
The company delivered world record results on the industry-standard
SPEC OMPM2001 and SPEC JBB2000 benchmarks, further demonstrating
the commitment to extend performance to the leading edge for the
entire product line.
A complete list of Solaris 10 benchmark records is located on the
web at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/benchmarks.xml.
Laptop Battery Sun Studio 10 Software: A Proven Track Record for Top
Performance
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Thinkpad Today Sun announced the new world record SPEC OMPM2001 results
in the two- and four-thread categories, further showcasing the
power of the Sun Studio 10 software and Solaris 10 OS duo coupled
with the latest Sun Fire servers, which provide excellent
deployment platforms for a number of high-performance and
compute-intensive applications. For instance, the Sun Fire V40z
server in a four CPU configuration, produced a peak result of
12,434, beating the 8,694 score reported with SuSe Linux and the
leading commercially available compiler, by up to 43
percent(1).
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Microsoft Additionally, the latest performance advances in the Java 2
Platform Standard Edition (J2SE 5.0), which was compiled using Sun
Studio 10 software, allow Sun to claim a new world record on the
Sun Fire V40z server -- the four-way, 64-bit SPEC JBB2000 result.
The Sun Fire V40z server crossed the 110,000 JBB operations per
second (JBBops/s) mark and set a new high watermark score of
116,142 JBBops/s. The newest record on the SPEC JBB2000 benchmark,
which measures the implementation of the Java Virtual Machine, as
well as the performance of the underlying operating system and the
scalability of the system's processors and memory, clearly
demonstrates that Solaris 10 can deliver better results when used
in combination with top-performing servers from Sun.
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Laptop Computers Since their introduction, Sun's range of x64 systems with the
AMD Opteron processors continue to outperform comparably configured
IBM and HP servers equipped with Power5 and Alpha processors,
respectively. The Sun Fire V40z server, in a two-way
configuration(2), outruns the two-way Power5-based IBM eServer
OpenPower 710 server by more than 32 percent using half the number
of parallel threads(3) and in a four-way configuration it beats the
HP AlphaServer GS1280 7/1300 by up to 51 percent(4).
Interwoven is also a principle member of the SunSM Partner Advantage Program. Introduced in September 2005, the Sun Partner Advantage Program for Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), is designed to make it easier for ISVs to get the resources they need to go to market faster on the Solaris 10 OS, link with Sun's Marketing, extend their sales reach, harness the expertise and connections of Sun's partner ecosystem, and help grow their business. The Program helps create an increased level of collaboration among Sun and its ecosystem of technology partners. By participating in the Sun Partner Advantage Program, ISVs receive simplified, programmatic, design, development, deployment, and operation. For complete details about the individual offerings that are available, go to www.sun. isv.
Laptop Computer Most importantly, Sun's customers now can reap the performance
benefits of the Sun Studio 10 software compiler, which provided an
11 percent performance boost on the same hardware configuration,
when compared with the previous top SPECompM2001 result obtained
under Linux using the
third-party, award-winning compiler
suite(5).
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Desktop Computer The SPEC OMPM2001 benchmark is a test of the performance of 11
High Performance Computing (HPC) applications. All C and FORTRAN
applications in this suite use the OpenMP programming model and
were compiled using the Sun Studio 10 software.
Notebooks OpenMP is a specification for a set of compiler directives,
library routines and environment variables that can be used to
specify shared memory parallelism in FORTRAN and C/C++ programs. In
addition to the parallelization controls, the programmer also has
to declare the scope of many of the variables used in a parallel
region.
Lenovo Dieter an Mey, high-performance computing team lead at RWTH
Aachen University, has reported that this variable scoping is
generally the most tedious and error-prone aspect of using OpenMP
to parallelize programs. an Mey's team worked with Sun to add a
unique autoscoping extension to Sun Studio 10's FORTRAN compiler.
With the Sun Studio 10 product, FORTRAN developers can now further
increase their productivity by asking the compiler to utilize data
dependence analysis to automatically determine the scope of their
variables within parallel regions.
Hard Drive Sun Microsystems is a corporate sponsor of IWOMP 2005, the First
International Workshop on OpenMP to be held in Eugene, Oregon on
June 1-4, 2005. On the Net:
http://www.nic.uoregon.edu/iwomp2005/.
Travelstar About the Sun Studio 10 Environment
Gateway The Sun Studio 10 software -- now available in English, Japanese
and Simplified Chinese -- helps deliver outstanding performance
when developing C, C++ and FORTRAN applications for the Solaris 10
OS. The product provides a comprehensive, productive environment
for developing scalable 32- and 64-bit applications on Sun's newest
UltraSPARC(R), Intel and AMD processor-based systems. An enhanced
graphical user interface increases ease-of-use, reduces turnaround
time for fixes and delivers greater debugging productivity -- plus
the world's first debugger to seamlessly debug applications
comprised of FORTRAN, C, C++ and Java programming language source
code.
Laptop Parts Pricing and Availability
Software Sun Studio 10 software is priced at $2,995 (USD) for a new
license or $1,000 (USD) for an upgrade from a previous version or
other commercially available competitive products. (U.S. List
price. All prices quoted are in U.S. Dollars.) Discounted pricing
is available for multi-RTU (right to use) licenses and University
ScholarPacks. Developers using prior versions of Forte(TM) software
and Sun Studio products can reap the benefits of their binary
compatibility, smoothing the transition of application development
from these prior versions to Sun Studio 10 software. The product is
available for download at
http://www.sun.com/software/products/studio.
Hard Drives About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Electronics Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network
Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SUNW) to its position as a leading 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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