Sun's Solaris Delivers Best
Specweb Performance Ever
|
Fastest Web Server Scores For Any Operating System
on Any Hardware Platform With Intel's New Pentium II Xeon Processor.
PALO ALTO, Calif. - Sun Microsystems,
Inc. today announced record-breaking SPECweb96 Web server
benchmark test results that beat any previously published
results as
tested on Intel's new Pentium II Xeon processor for servers.
SPECweb96 is the industry's first standardized benchmark
for
measuring the performance of World Wide Web servers.
The new 7,781 SPECweb96 HTTP operations per second rating
from Sun is the highest ever posted for any operating system
running on any hardware platform. The industry-standard
test was
conducted on a 400 Mhz Pentium II Xeon processor-based
four-way NCR server running Solaris software and SunTM
WebServerTM.
"These record-breaking results demonstrate that
Solaris
is not only the best performing and most scalable
operating environment, but the optimal choice for
Intel-based computers," said Rich Green, vice
president of Solaris Software, Sun Microsystems. "By
delivering a world-class software environment to Intel,
Sun is helping to unleash the full power of the Pentium
II Xeon Processor.
Sun's Solaris operating environment will take advantage
of Intel's
Extended Server Memory Architecture -- a collection of
technologies that allows operating systems and enterprise
applications to achieve a fundamental performance benefit
and
transcend the 4 Gigabyte memory barrier. Intel's Pentium
II Xeon
processor is the first IA32 processor to provide complete
support
for this architecture.
"Sun's Solaris, running on the highly-scalable
Pentium
II Xeon processor for servers, delivers unsurpassed
value to business users in the enterprise computing
market segment," said John Miner, vice president
and
general manager for Intel's Enterprise Server Group.
"These solutions deliver excellent flexibility
and
versatility, while also providing outstanding
price/performance for the customer."
Designed for IT professionals, line-of-business managers,
Internet
Service Providers (ISPs), and power users, Sun's Solaris
operating
environment can be accessed and used by any type of device
connected to the network, including high-performance
workstations, Microsoft Windows computers and Windows NT
servers. Unlike other operating environments, Solaris software
is
tuned for network computing and exploits the full capability
of both
SPARCTM and Intel-based computers. It is extremely fast,
highly
reliable, scalable, secure, very easy to install and use,
optimized for
the JavaTM technology platform and supports more than 12,000
applications.
SPECweb96
SPECweb96 is the industry's first standardized benchmark
for
measuring performance of World Wide Web servers. The
benchmark focuses on server performance, measuring the ability
of
the server to service HTTP requests. It measures the response
time
for each request and calculates a metric based on overall
throughput, measured as maximum benchmark operations per
second. The benchmark was developed by SPEC's Open Systems
Group in conjunction with leading Web product vendors and
research organizations, including Sun Microsystems.
About Sun Microsystems
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The
Network Is The
Computer(tm)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(NASDAQ:
SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of high quality
hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide
intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With
more than
$9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more
than 150
countries and on the World Wide Web at
http://www.sun.com.
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