The Sun Fire E25K running J2SE 5.0_06 now holds the overall world record running SPECjbb2005! Hot off the presses, here's the new world record result: 1,164,995 SPECjbb2005 bops, 32,361 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. This result beats the recently announced result from Fujitsu for the PRIMEPOWER 2500 with SPARC64 V. Once again the combination of Sun's world class enterprise server architecture, the Ultra SPARC IV+ processor, and Sun J2SE 5.0_06 with HotSpot JVM technology team up to prove once again world class performance and scalability with the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. Very, very impressive. As a designer and developer of this benchmark I found it hard to envision the day where the SPECjbb2005 bops score would breach 1 million. The day is here and much sooner than I could have ever anticipated. These are exciting times for Java performance (and there's more performance optimizations coming soon!) Stay tuned for more information on this latest world record. The BMSeer has a excellent competitive overview of this result, the price performance of the Sun Fire E25K is quite impressive compared to our competition $$ (add an extra $ for IBM). (Hey BMSeer, next time you won't beat me to the punch announcing our latest SPECjbb2005 world record!!). Fine print SPEC disclosure: SPECjbb2005 Sun Fire E25K (72-way, 72 chips, 144 cores) 1,164,995 SPECjbb2005 bops, 32,361 SPECjbb0205 bops/JVM submitted for review, Fujitsu PRIMEPOWER 2500 (128 chips, 128 cores) 1,157,619 SPECjbb2005 bops, 72,351 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM. SPEC™ and the benchmark name SPECjbb2005™ are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of February 23, 2006. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005.