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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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Sun Studio 12 Optimizations Help Boost Performance d

Another record, set this time by the Sun Blade X6270 with a 2-chip Nehalem (Intel Xeon X5570 processor for SPECfp2006: 50.4., was enhanced even further by the optimization technologies introduced in the Sun Studio 12 Update 1 compiler, reports John L. Henning in his blog “Sun Studio Trounces Intel Compiler on Intel Chip.”

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Non-clustered Server Easily Beats Out HP Contenders

The Sun Fire X4275 Server, powered by 2 Quad-core 2.93 GHz Intel Nehalem X5570 processors and using only 12 internal disks (SAS 300GB 15K RPM), achieved a QphH@1000GB of 23,365 with a price performance of $2.41 in tests running the Sybase IQ Database. Reported by BM Seer, this is the best price performance among all non-clustered server results at TPC-H 1000GB.

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