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SPECjvm2008 Sun Fire X4450 First Result Ever Published

Thursday Jul 17, 2008

The Sun Fire X4450 server demonstrates Sun's position of leadership in Java based computing by publishing the first result ever for the new SPEC benchmark JVM2008. The Sun Fire X4450 server delivered a result of 260.08 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m.

Now we just need the other vendors (SPEC members who must have approved the benchmark) to step up and start publishing...

SPECjvm2008 Performance Chart (ordered by performance)

base: SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m (bigger is better)
peak: SPECjvm2008 Peak ops/m (bigger is better)
Ch/Co/Lc: Chips, Cores, Logical CPUs

System Processors Performance
Ch Co Lc GHz Type base peak
Sun Fire X4450 4 16 16 2.933 X7350 QC 260.08 -

Benchmark Description

SPECjvm2008 (Java Virtual Machine Benchmark) is a benchmark suite for measuring the performance of a Java Runtime Environment (JRE), containing several real life applications and benchmarks focusing on core java functionality. The suite focuses on the performance of the JRE executing a single application; it reflects the performance of the hardware processor and memory subsystem, but has low dependence on file I/O and includes no network I/O across machines. The SPECjvm2008 workload mimics a variety of common general purpose application computations. These characteristics reflect the intent that this benchmark will be applicable to measuring basic Java performance on a wide variety of both client and server systems.

SPEC also finds user experience of Java important, and the suite therefore includes startup benchmarks and has a required run category called base, which must be run without any tuning of the JVM to improve the out of the box performance.

SPECjvm2008 benchmark highlights:

  • Leverages real life applications (like derby, sunflow, and javac) and area-focused benchmarks (like xml, serialization, crypto, and scimark).
Also measures the performance of the operating system and hardware in the context of executing the JRE.

Disclosure Statement:

SPEC, SPECjvm reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results as of 07/16/08 on www.spec.org. Sun Fire X4405 260.08 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m

Results Summary

Certified Results
Performance: 260.08 SPECjvm2008 Base ops/m
Reference Date: July 8, 2008
Systems: Sun Fire X4450
Total Number Processors: 4
Processor/ GHz of Server: Intel Xeon X7350 QC 2.933 GHz
Operating System: Solaris 10 5/08
JVM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM on Solaris, version 1.6.0_06 Performance Release

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