Sun Microsystems and GigaSpaces Break 1.3 Million-Messages-Per-Second Benchmark on Sun Server with CoolThreads Technology
New Benchmark in High Performance Computing Meets the Needs of Capital Market Customers
NEW YORK, NY High Performance on Wall Street, September 22, 2008 Sun
Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and GigiSpaces today announced new
benchmark performance results that address the scalability needs of
capital market customers. In rigorous performance tests, the
energy-efficient Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server
processed 1.3 million transactions per second with 60 concurrent
clients to achieve an improvement of up to 40 percent over competing
multi-threaded platforms. The average throughput per client thread was
sustained at about 21,000 transactions per second. When matched against
comparable x86 systems, users get up to five times higher performance
in half the space and 2.5 times better performance per watt
