This year at JavaOne we had a demo at the performance pod demonstrating Java SE performance and scalability. We had a Sun Fire T2000 with a 1.0 Ghz UltraSPARC T1 processor and 8gb RAM running Sun J2SE 5.0_06, J2SE 5.0_08, and Java SE 6. Brian Doherty did the setup this year (thanks a lot Brian!). He spent the entire day on Monday fighting the networking issues on the JavaOne pavilion floor but was eventually able to get the demo working (but we had to buy our own USB to serial kit to do it). It was also quite cold in the building, and Brian didn't bring his jacket because of the 80 degree weather that day in San Francisco. So, just like any resourceful engineer working in a lab, Brian decided to warm his hands with the fan exhaust in the back of the Sun Fire T2000. Much to his surprise, the T2000 was blowing cold air! Over the next few days on the show floor we put the system to the test. We ran SPECjbb2005 every day for 10 hours straight with the CPU fully consumed at 100%. Guess what? It still blew cold air. This was absolutely amazing, especially since my little laptop is about to burn my legs as I type this... I find this incredible. At risk of being a bit annoying I asked nearly everyone who stopped by our booth to put their hands by the fans and feel the air. I wasn't the only one amazed, many people wanted to the the CPU stats to be sure the system was running full tilt. Very cool. (literally).