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Sun Fire X4640 Server Fastest on SAP and SPEC Benchmarks

The new Sun Fire X4640 server delivered outstanding performance on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, which represents the critical tasks performed in real-world ERP business environments, and the SPECompL2001, which represents workloads consisting of medium and large problem sets that stress the computer’s processor, memory, compilers and OpenMP implementation. The Sun Fire X4640 is an 8-socket modular x64 server in a single 4U chassis that supports up to 48 cores.

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Short Items of Interest on Sun Systems Performance

• Benchmarks from Oracle OpenWorld
• Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Achieves World Record SPECweb2005
• CP2K Ab-initio Dynamics Applications Software and Sun Blades
• ProMAX Performance on Sun Blade 6048/X6275 Cluster
• Highest Eight and Four-processor Results on the Two-tier SAP SD-Parallel
• Sun Storage 6180 Over 70% Better Price/Performance Than IBM

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Eight-processor World Record Set with Four Sun Blade X6270 Module Nodes

The Oracle Database garnered another honor with the world record it set on the SAP Sales and Distribution-Parallel Standard Application Benchmark with the SAP Enhancement Package 4 for ERP 6.0 (Unicode). Set on a cluster of four-node Sun Blade X6270 server module nodes, each with two Intel Xeon x5570 quad-core 2.93 GHz processors and running the Solaris 10 OS, the performance was near linear in scalability.

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Depends on the OS, Apparently

Curious about the impact of virtualization on benchmarking results? Jan Brosowski blogged in SAPonSun about testing two “half-box” virtual machines on the same box. He discovered a striking difference.

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Discusses Acquistion Delay, Financials, Competition in Interview

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said he has no plans to spin off MySQL and expressed the urgent need to complete the $7.4 billion merger with Sun. Ellison made these remarks during an interview conducted by former Motorola and Sun executive Ed Zander before a gathering of industry dignitaries in San Jose, Calif., on September 21, reported InfoWorld’s Paul Krill. Ellison did say that Sun is losing about $100 million a month with the delay from European regulators on the buyout of Sun.

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Using Oracle as Database Platform and Volumes on a 7210 Mounted via NFS

The BigAdmin paper “Running SAP ERP 6.0 With Oracle Database on the Sun Storage 7210 Unified Storage System” by Ulrich Conrad describes the steps to implement an SAP ERP 6.0 application on Solaris 10 for x64 platforms with Oracle as the database platform and volumes on this Sun OpenStorage system that are mounted via NFS.

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Sun Fire Server and Oracle Database Top IBM, HP/Microsoft

The Sun Fire X4270 server and the Oracle 10g have set a world-record result for a two-processor system on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark, outperforming IBM System 550 server and DB2 as well as HP ProLiant BL460c G6 and Microsoft SQL Server. The two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark measures the system performance to process dialog steps and order line item postings per hour for SAP solution-based transactions.

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From a Non-Sun Platform to a Sun Environment

A best practices Sun BluePrints offers advice on moving a SAP environment from one system to another in a heterogeneous environment. Specifically, from a non Sun platform to a Sun environment. Authored by Sun Senior SAP Solutions Architect Himesh Bhatt, the 27-page PDF describes procedures, techniques and recommendations that can simplify and expedite the migration.

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Also, Sun T5440 with 1.6 GHz UltraSPARC T2 Plus Delivers Record Performance on Oracle BI EE

Oracle and Sun set a world record four-processor result on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP Enhancement Pack 4 for the SAP ERP 6.0 application (Unicode). The system configuration was comprised of a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server equipped with four 1.6 GHz Sun UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and the Oracle Database running on Solaris 10 for a result of 4,720 SAP SD Benchmark users.

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On BIDW and Email Serving Benchmarks

Sun’s Open Network Systems have set multiple record-breaking results on industry-standard Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and e-mail serving benchmarks. Outstanding performance was also observed on the two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark and the SAS Analytics grid test.

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