Thursday May 08, 2008
Thursday May 08, 2008 Sun continues to shatter world records with its x64 servers! The Sun Fire X4450 server -- powered by four Quad-core Intel Xeon X7350 processors; the Solaris 10 OS; and the latest version of Sun's Java Platform, Standard Edition software -- delivered top-notch four-socket performance on the SPECjbb2005 benchmark. The 2U server, at least half the size of competitive servers, obtained a World Record score of 464,355 SPECjbb2005 bops (58,044 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM) for all four-socket systems.
For more info and competitive comparisons, check out the benchmark details.
Sun Shows Off Sun-SAP Compliance and Business Intelligence Appliance Solutions at SAPPHIRE 2008
At partner SAP’s annual SAPPHIRE Conference next week (http://www1.sapsapphire.com/usa2008/index.htm), Sun showcased two new Sun and SAP solutions that solve business intelligence and compliance challenges for enterprises.
Sun and SAP worked together to certify the Sun and Intel solution for SAP’s NetWeaver BI Accelerator (http://www.sap.com/usa/platform/netweaver/index.epx) that gives end-users better and more timely data insights and decisions. The solution provides a Web search engine-like capability for structured data, delivering a 10 to 100 times average speed increase for query performance. SAP Netweaver BI Accelerator is now available from Sun on the Sun Blade 6000 system. This solution includes the Sun Blade 6250 server modules with 16 or 32 GB of memory, Sun StorageTek 6140 array with an Oracle Cluster File System, Fiber channel and network switches, and is cabled, labeled and ready to integrate.
Sun demonstrated how the integration of its identity management solution with SAP’s governance, risk and compliance (GRC) solution creates a streamlined, end-to-end compliance process for enterprises. The latest versions of Sun’s Java System Identity Manager (IDM) (http://www.sun.com/software/products/identity_mgr/index.jsp) have been integrated with SAP’s GRC Access Control (http://www.sap.com/solutions/grc/index.epx) for the first time using Web services. By integrating the solutions, IT departments can better control and authorize business applications for governance and compliance purposes.
Sun and SAP have a long history of partnering to provide enterprises with all the technology they need to optimize SAP solutions in the datacenter. For more information on the partnership, visit sun.com/sap/
Sun and Intel Extend Threading Building Blocks Support to Solaris, Sun Studio
When Sun launched Solaris 10 5/08 last week, a
major part of the update to the OS stemmed from its collaboration with
Intel on platform-tuned power management capabilities and optimized
support for Intel processors and graphics technology. This week the
Sun-Intel alliance has yielded yet another
milestone, bringing open source Threading Building Blocks (TBB) support
to both Solaris and the Sun Studio software toolchain.
TBB for Solaris will make it easier for developers to build threaded
applications in C++ for newer multi-core processors, including Quad-Core
Intel Xeon. Sun Studio software offers a complete integrated toolchain
for Solaris and Linux platforms, including parallelizing compilers,
performance and thread analysis tools, memory and code debuggers,
NetBeans-based Integrated Development Environment, and more. TBB for Solaris will be included in the OpenSolaris
repository in the near future.
Intel's Doug Fisher made the announcement during his "Innovations
through Software" presentation today at the 2008
JavaOne conference.
A download of TBB for Solaris is available here, and you can learn
about more Intel Threading Building Blocks for Open Source by visiting
www.threadingbuildingblocks.org.