sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Breakthrough Performance for SPARCserver 2000 SunFLASH Vol 56 #27 August 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 56.27 Breakthrough Performance for SPARCserver 2000 SMCC reports excellent performance for the SPARCserver 2000 in three benchmarks: NFS (LADDIS), system computational performance (the SPECrate benchmark) and multi-user throughput (the AIM III benchmark). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - August 23, 1993 - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today reported industry-leading results for three key vendor-neutral benchmarks of server performance on its high-end SPARCcenter 2000 data center server, which offers up to 20-way multiprocessing. This Sun(R) system beat out all other servers in NFS(R) file server performance (the LADDIS benchmark), system computational performance (the SPECrate benchmark) and multi-user throughput (the AIM III benchmark). These results demonstrate that the SPARCcenter 2000 server, running the Solaris(R) operating system -- the industry's most scalable operating environment -- has the best overall performance in all significant categories. The SPARCcenter 2000 server is the world's fastest NFS file server, outperforming even systems specifically designed for NFS file service. The LADDIS result for the SPARCcenter 2000 eight-CPU system is 2,422 SPECnfs_A93 ops/sec (operations per second), significantly higher than the closest competitor, Auspex, which recorded results of less than 2,050 SPECnfs_A93 ops/sec on its NS 6000 server. The SPARCcenter 2000 server has nearly twice the capacity of an HP 9000/800 H60 server and nearly five times the capacity of the IBM RS/6000 model 580 server. The SPARCcenter 2000 server delivers industry-leading file server performance, supporting hundreds of powerful network clients, while providing simplified network administration, and excellent response time for large, multi-network distributed environments. SPECrate_int92 for a SPARCcenter 2000 16-processor system is 21,196, which is nearly twice the integer capacity of a DEC 10,000/660 server, five times the capacity of the HP 9000 890/400 server and more than 14 times the capacity of the IBM RS/6000 model 980 server. The SPARCcenter 2000, with a SPECrate_fp92 result of 28,064, has substantially more floating point capacity than the highest-performing systems from DEC, HP and IBM. SPECrate determines how many jobs can be completed during a reference interval. At this level of performance, the SPARCcenter 2000 server offers more total system computational throughput than any other system. AIM III results for the 20-processor SPARCcenter 2000 server are 408.4 AIMs for a maximum throughput of 4,002 jobs/min., which represent the industry's best AIM III results. The SPARCcenter 2000 server is six times faster than the highest-performing IBM RS/6000 system, the model 580, and more than twice as fast as the Data General AviiON 6280 and the Pyramid MIS 12 (12-CPU) minicomputers. AIM measures multiuser throughput. The AIM III result confirms that the SPARCcenter 2000 server supports more timeshared users than any other UNIX(R) system. This is an important achievement because it allows users to maintain their timeshared environment while they are making the transition from proprietary minicomputers and mainframes to open, UNIX client-server computers. "The SPARCcenter 2000 has the performance, expandability, system management and availability features required to run large business-critical applications while supporting thousands of users," said Carl Stolle, manager of SMCC's server product marketing group. "This server is part of a powerful client-server computing solution a comprehensive product line and world-class service offering -- that --addresses the enterprise computing needs of small and large organizations worldwide." In addition to demonstrating superior performance, SMCC's servers also have shown strong market momentum. According to the "1992 Worldwide Workstation/Workstation Server Census" report, written by analyst Nancy Battey and published by Framingham, Mass.-based market research organization International Data Corporation (IDC), servers from SMCC accounted for the largest share of the market -- 39.8 percent of the worldwide unit shipments of "as-sold" workstation servers for 1992. SMCC's server momentum can be attributed in part to Sun being the platform of choice for users of UNIX relational database packages. According to IDC's recently released report, "UNIX Relational Database Software Market, 1992-1997," written by analyst John Morrell, SMCC leads the market, with 24.9 percent of UNIX database sales on its servers. In addition, SMCC experienced a 47.9 percent growth rate in this market from 1991 to 1992. SMCC recorded the highest growth of any vendor for both 1991 and 1992. The market research firm also noted that the increase in the percentage of revenues on Sun systems accounted for one of the most significant changes in platform distribution of UNIX database server software. Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation is the world's leading vendor of open client-server computing solutions. It is an operating company of Sun Microsystems, Inc., the exclusive computer supplier to World Cup USA 1994. 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