Sun Microsystems Reaches Milestone with Sun Fire X4640 Server

Sun Microsystems, Inc. said that its Sun Fire X4640 server, based on the Six-Core AMD Opteron processor, delivered record-setting performance and that these results highlight the enterprise-class performance and infrastructure and management cost savings Sun's integrated infrastructure with the Solaris Operating System (OS) deliver through the convergence of compute, networking and storage.

The benchmark results announced include:

Two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark - The Sun Fire X4640 server with eight AMD Opteron processors (48 cores, 48 threads) delivered an outstanding x86 Unicode-based result and set an eight-processor world record with 10,000 SAP SD Benchmark users running the SAP enhancement package 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode)(2). The SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments and demonstrates the performance of systems running sell-from-stock workloads. The outstanding result achieved on the latest Unicode version of the benchmark demonstrates the advantage of deploying the Sun Fire X4640 server and Solaris OS for customers looking to gain multilingual support with SAP applications.

Versus the competition on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark, the Sun Fire X4640 server running SAP solutions with Oracle Database on top of the Solaris 10 OS, delivered:

- 21 percent better performance than an eight-processor HP ProLiant DL785 G6 system that utilized faster CPUs and ran the Windows OS(3)

- 33 percent better performance than a 16-processor NEC Express 5800 server

- 2.7x the performance of a four-processor IBM System 550 server

SPECompL2001 - The Sun Fire X4640 server with eight AMD Opteron model 8435 processors running the Solaris 10 10/09 OS with Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler software, posted the top x86 result on SPECompL2001. The SPEC OMP benchmark represents workloads often used in high-energy physics, weather modeling, computational chemistry and mechanical design, and consists of medium and large problem sets that stress the computer's processor, memory, compilers and OpenMP implementation. Running parallel applications with 48 compute threads and half a terabyte of memory, the Sun Fire X4640 server is well suited for memory intensive, technical workloads and extends Solaris OS and Sun Studio leadership in the OpenMP space using x86 architectures.

According to Sun, the new Sun Fire X4640 server uses up to eight Six-Core AMD Opteron processors in 4RU, making it the most compact 24- to 48-core system available from tier one vendors. The Sun Fire X4640 server supports the Solaris, Windows and Linux operating systems and VMware, Solaris Containers and Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization.

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