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GlassFish releases another record open-source software stack SPECjAppServer2004 result

Sun has published a new SPECjAppServer2004 result of 2925.18 JOPS@Standard on April 20th, 2009. This highlights the scalability of GlassFish on Open-Solaris and Java platforms using our new Sun Servers Sun Fire X2270 and Sun Fire X4170 based on Intel processors. The details are available in this press release.

This result of 2925.18 JOPS@Standard improves our previously published result dated September 2008 of 1197.10 JOPS@Standard using Sun Fire X4150 servers highlighting the GlassFish Application Server's commitment to improve Performance and Scalability. The 1197.10 JOPS publication has established the price/performance metric of $33.90 per JOPS@Standard.

For more details about this new benchmark result and it's configuration, visit Tom Daly's blog, Kevin Kelly's blog, and Jennifer Glore's blog. We use $/JOPS as the price/performance metric to compare the cost incurred to achieve a single transaction of work measured as JOPS@Standard.

The following table gives you a comparison of $/JOPS for both the publications released by Sun using GlassFish Application Server.

SPECjAppServer2004 Complete Solution (All prices in $US)

	Sun Fire X4150/GF v2U2(Sep. 2008)	Sun Fire X2270/GF v2.1(Apr. 2009)
Performance (SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@ Standard)	1,197.10	2,925.18
Total Acquisition Price	$40,584	$78,834
Software Acquisition Price (includes database)	$24,474	$39,954
Price/Performance (Smaller is Better - $/JOP)	$33.90	$26.95

Based on the above information, it is very clear that GlassFish solution can achieve high performance and the best price/performance metric of $/JOPS costing about $26.95/JOP which is better than our previous publishing of price/performance of $33.90/JOP. This demonstrates how an open-source software stack from Sun can be used to achieve the best price/performance result.

Required Disclosure : SPEC and SPECjAppServer are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from www.spec.org as of 04/20/2009. Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server v2.1 on Sun Fire X2270 with MySQL 5.1 on OpenSolaris 2008.11. Application Server: 1 x X2270 8 x cores (2 Chips) and Database Server: 1 x X4170 8 x Cores (2 Chips) 2925.18 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard; 2xSun Fire X4150 (8 cores, 2chips) and 1xSun Fire X4150 (4 cores, 1 chip) 1197.10 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard

Posted at 07:00PM Apr 20, 2009 by MADHU KONDA in General  |