* Fujitsu server wins world record in SPEC benchmarks
Fujitsu blows doors off Java processing
Fujitsu server wins world record in SPEC benchmarks
By Deni Connor
Fujitsu announced last week that its high-end Primequest 480 has won a new world record in the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Java Business Benchmark 2005 (SPECjbb2005).
SPECjbb2005, which was developed in June 2005, tests the performance of servers running Java-based applications. It simulates the processing of online orders, shipping, receipts and payment processing. Among the companies using SPECjbb2005 are Dell, IBM, Fujitsu, AMD and Sun. HP has not tested any servers using this new benchmark but has tested its Alpha, Integrity, Superdome and ProLiant servers using the predecessor, SPECjbb2000.
The Fujitsu Primequest 480 tested was a 32-processor box that uses Intel Itanium 2 processors operating at 1.6 GHz. It can be partitioned into eight 4-CPU partitions and supports as much as 1T bytes of memory (see the Primequest 480 spec sheet, and as a PDF).
Running BEA’s WebLogic JRockit, the Primequest processed 322,719 business operations per second (BOPS) and 40,340 BOPS per Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance. The runner-ups to this result were a Primequest 480 running one JVM instance – it processed 295,161 BOPS – and a 32-processor Sun E6900 that processed 248,075 BOPS (see the SPECjbb2005 Results).
Primequest servers were introduced in April 2005. Since that time, they have been bought by TKC and are sold by EDS for its customers who need powerful computers for business critical applications.
Primequest servers run Windows and Red Hat or SuSE Linux.
