The Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 are great servers for transaction based workloads. Running web sites on these systems is a great match-up. To help people get systems up and running quickly, there is now available an optimized set of binaries for some of the most common web technologies; Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Squid and Tomcat.

Cool Stack - CoolThreads Optimized Open Source Software Stack, is a collection of commonly used Open Source software optimized for the Sun Solaris OS (TM) / UltraSPARC (R) platform (using Sun Studio 11 compilers) for the best out-of-the-box performance. The Open Source apps included are: Apache, MySQL, Perl, PHP, Squid and Tomcat.

Cool Stack is built using Sun Studio (TM) 11 Compiler using the -xO4 option for high levels of optimization. This results in anywhere between 30-200% performance improvement (depending on workload/application) over standard compilations performed using gcc.

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