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I've not done a Weekly
since Dec 23rd due to the Holiday Break
(Bon Nadal!
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Many people
Took the Break
but the is still plenty of content:
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• Hudson -
News Roundup |
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The latest Sun WebServer is now available (Home Page, Release Notes, Direct Download). This release includes the latest Java Web Container from GLassFIsh and was used in the Record-breaking SPECweb 2005 benchmark on a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5220. |
See the Release writeups from CVR, Joe and Jyri, and the Benchmark reports from CVR and BMseer. Information on a number of benchmarks is available at the T5220 Benchmark Page.
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This was
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When we published our Earlier SPECjAppserver 2004 result on GlassFish v2 I read some questions on whether we would scale. Today's Posting on a T5120 Cluster should dispel any remaining questions: 8,439.36 JOPS@Standard! This week is Thanksgiving week in the US and many people are away. Scott has promised more details and commentary on Monday; in the meantime, many congratulations to the performance team. |
Disclaimers: SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer 2004 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 11/21/07. The comparison presented is based on GlassFish v2 UR1 run on 6 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (1 chip, 8 cores/chip, 8 threads/core) 1.4GHz 8,439.36 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. For the latest SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.
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George joins Linda in writing about Open MQ. His first entry announced the latest SPEC benchmark: SPECjms2007. This benchmark is analogous to the SPECjAppServer 2004 we have reported regarding the GlassFish AppServer; hopefully OpenMQ will post as good numbers as GlassFish and the Sun WebServer - see TA entries. George's latest entry is a request for feedback from OpenMQ Users. Try OpenMQ through GlassFish or its Standalone Download and submit your comments through USERS@mq.dev.java.net. |
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Earlier this week Sun announced new machines using the UltraSPARC T2. Many of the key contributors have written about them and Allan has a Nice Overview that links to the key posts. The new systems show great performance; check out BMSeer's Posts and the official T5220 page. One result we want to highlight is the Web Tier Benchmark posted using the Sun WebServer (using the GlassFish Java Web Tier). Check out CVR's Writeup and BMSeer's Comparisons. |
Congratulations to the Sun WebServer team! And to everybody who got the systems out to market!
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When Eduardo highlighted the excellent SPECjAppServer 2004 results for GlassFish v1 and PostgreSQL, he speculated that "GlassFish v2 should enable a better number (or similar number on cheaper hardware)." Now, just two weeks later, we have a new SPECjAppServer 2004 result which does use GlassFish v2 (while keeping PostgreSQL 8.2.4 for the DB). Its 813.73 JOPS are about 4.5% better than the 778.14 JOPS obtained in the earlier run with GlassFish v1. And, as Jignesh describes, these new results were obtained using about 33% less hardware. So Eduardo's predication was right on both counts--a better number and cheaper hardware. |
Disclaimers: SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer 2004 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 07/23/06. The comparison presented is based on GlassFish v2 run on Sun Fire X4200 (4 chips, 8 cores) - 813.73 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard and GlassFish v1 run on Sun Fire X4200 (6 chips, 12 cores) - 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. For the latest SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.
Picture by Bo Nash.
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Josh reports another SPECjAppServer 2004 result: 778.14 JOPS@Standard based on GlassFish v1. Although the number is lower than the 883.66 JOPS@Standard we just reported, the submission is interesting in that it is all open source, software (GlassFish, PostgreSQL,...) and hardware (T2000). Playing the leapfrogging game, GlassFish v2 should enable a better number (or similar number on cheaper hardware). Check Josh's writeup for more details. |
Disclaimers: SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer 2004 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 07/10/07. The comparison presented is based on GlassFish v1 run on Sun Fire X4200 (6 chips, 12 cores) - 778.14 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard and on GlassFish v2 run on Sun Fire T2000 (1 chips, 8 cores) 1.4ghz - 883.66 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. For the latest SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.
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Bragging time: 883.66 JOPS@Standard - GlassFish v2 now has the best SPECjAppServer 2004 on T2000; better than BEA's, Oracle's and IBM's. Read Scott's writeup for the details and caveats. The result reflects improvements in many areas including EJBs, JMS, JSP compilation, Servlet connector and container, connection pooling, CMP 2.1 and more. GFv2 has also improved in areas not covered by SPECjAppServer 2004 like Web Services, EJB 3.0, JSF, JPA and others. |
As Scott says, benchmarking is a leap-frogging game: tomorrow there may be another T2000 submission that is better than ours, but we have joined the game and we intend to keep hopping in front... And this benchmark is another example that you don't have to choose between Open Source and Enterprise Features: you can have both.
Disclaimers: SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjAppServer 2004 are registered trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Sun Fire T2000 (1 chips, 8 cores) 1.4ghz 883.66 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on www.spec.org as of 07/10/06. For the latest SPECjAppServer 2004 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/.
