Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire servers continue to beat IBM Power5 systems on performance, price/performance

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News digest January 2006

>Industry

	>HPCN industry
>AMD and IBM unveil new, highter performance, more power efficient 65nm process technologies at gathering of industry's top R&D firms
>M/C Evaluations Workshop - Challenges of Multi-core Chips
>International Supercomputer Conference 2006 issues Call for Papers for June meeting in Dresden, Germany
>International review of research using high performance computing in the United Kingdom
>eBay and Sun expand global collaborative alliance highlighting support for Sun's Dual Core x64 server strategy
>Intel and BMW enter comprehensive partnership
>HP owns no. 1 rank in worldwide total disk storage systems revenue for 14th consecutive quarter
>Japan's Institute of Fluid Science, Tohoku University to install new system architected around SGI's Linux OS-based supercomputer
>Sun Microsystems introduces Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 servers
>IBM announces new software strategy for GPFS file system
>IU Bloomington and Purdue universities join efforts to strengthen the state's economic development
>Sun shift to free and open source software
>Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire servers continue to beat IBM Power5 systems on performance, price/performance
>Oracle, Symantec and BEA lead unprecedented ISV support for Sun's Eco-responsible Sun Fire T1000 and T2000 systems
>Infineon delivers high-performance GDDR3 memory for ATI's next-generation mobility Radeon X1600 graphics processor
>HP expands storage partner programme to help customers better manage information
>Xyratex and Digi-Data partner with Storage Elements to deliver shared storage utility
>SBE announces two iSCSI design wins; PyX iSCSI software selected for integration into SAS and SATA storage servers
>HP positioned as "leader" in storage assessment report
>Sun Microsystems launches OpenSPARC project
>Sun and Synopsys collaborate to certify VCS verification solution for the Solaris 10 OS on x64 platforms
>Fluent 6.3 beta release shows CFD performance enhancements with the new Intel C++ Compiler 9.0 for Linux
>Dot Hill announces OEM agreement with Alliance Systems
	>The Grid
>European and American supercomputing infrastructures linked through a common wide-area global file system
>Grids to aid breast cancer diagnosis and research
>BIG GRID the Dutch e-Science Grid gets funded with about 20 million euro
>Computing power breaks new boundaries in understanding stem cells
>M-grid distributes scientific computing all over Finland
>Web-based system will speed drug discoveries
>i3Archive brings On-Demand to the challenges of digital medical imaging disaster recovery
>GGF16 issues Call for Participation
>US Congress passes bill to spend $5 million for supercomputer Grid in northwest Indiana
>Understanding Grid semantics for virtual collaboration
>DataSynapse and Sophis deliver high performance front-to-back office trading solution
>US National Science Foundation awards $13.3 million for Globus Toolkit development
>Early experiences with utility models indicate strong demand for enterprise 'agility' through Grid architectures
>HP opens its data centres to the public via utility computing services
>Sun Grants Princeton University 100,000 CPU Hours on the Sun Grid
>Paremus announces adoption of OSGi for superior enterprise system agility and resilience
>TeraGrid management team announces new Deputy Director
>Sun adds two Sun Grid storage services
>Accelrys to co-ordinate UK Government-sponsored materials design project
>Azul Systems and GigaSpaces set new application performance standards for service-oriented architectures
>IBM and Universities launch Latin American Grid Computing initiative
>TXU and Current Communications to create the USA's first multipurpose Smart Grid, marriag of electricity and computing Grid
>Callidus extends TrueComp software to new health care client
>Oracle Database 10g Release 2 secures world record TPC-H benchmark result with Sun Fire E25K server in 10TB category
>Codefarm launches next generation financial optimization software for CDO structuring
>Oracle certifies PeopleSoft applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware
	>Applications
>Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution selects SGI technology to explore the planet's biggest earthquake zones
>Virtual modelling goes high performance
>US Naval Surface Warfare Center uses SGI Altix and storage solutions to advance study of underwater explosions
>U.S. Army purchases SGI and VRSim immersive Virtual Reality Welding Trainer systems
>The French Post Office invests 147 million euro and selects Bull and Lockheed Martin to supply the information system running its future mail sorting machines
>US Naval Research Laboratory leverages SGI visualization and storage solutions to advance ocean, atmospheric and space sciences
>General Dynamics-Lockheed Martin team demonstrates Army's WIN-T tactical warfighter network
>SGI expands portfolio of available CAE software for U.S. Department of Defense applications
	>Media
>The 451 Group deepens its analyst ranks as demand for its insight into the business of enterprise IT innovation increases

>Networking

>A bright outlook for global weather forecasting
>High energy physics team captures network prize at SC\|05
>Interactive distance learning and collaboration highlighted at NCREN community celebration
>Indiana University and Cisco Systems to support National LambdaRail networking services
>Force10 TeraScale E-Series enables record setting demonstrations during Bandwidth Challenge at SuperComputing Conference
>Broadcom's StrataXGS III switches power Alcatel's new core chassis enabling next generation enterprise networks
>The Pennsylvania State University and TelCove partner on major joint fiber build
>Global Crossing Network supports world record in international visualization

Sun's UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire servers continue to beat IBM Power5 systems on performance, price/performance

Santa Clara 30 November 2005 Sun Microsystems Inc. has achieved a world record-breaking data warehousing performance TPC-H SF10000 benchmark result with the Sun Fire E25K UltraSPARC IV+ system and the Oracle Database 10g Release 2. Sun also performed a world record-breaking performance SPECjbb2005 benchmark result with the Sun Fire E6900 UltraSPARC IV+ system which eclipsed newly announced SPECjbb2005 result from IBM based on comparably priced Power5 system. Sun achieved a SPECjbb2005 result of 248,075 business operations per second (bops), which beats the performance of the newly announced POWER5 IBM eServer p5 570 16-way SPECjbb2005 result of 244,361 bops.

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The Sun Fire E25K system's world record surpassed a HP Integrity Superdome cluster by 25 percent, and an IBM POWER5-based cluster by over 4 percent on the TPC-H 10 Terabyte benchmark. The 72-way 1.5 Ghz UltraSPARC IV+ processor-based Sun Fire E25K system with 108 Sun StorEdge SE3510 arrays running the industry-leading Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and Oracle Database 10g Release 2 resulted in 108,099.7 QphH@10000GB, at a world record price-performance ratio of $53.80/QphH@10000GB, with the TPC-H SF10000 benchmark.

These results demonstrate the continued dominance of Sun UltraSPARC-based systems and Solaris OS on large SMP platforms and Oracle Database 10g with the most demanding enterprise application environments. Bolstered by Solaris 10, Sun's advanced multi-platform, open source OS, and new Sun Studio 11 software compilers, the E25K is further optimized for record-setting performance and throughput maximization. The system was able to deliver 20 GB/sec I/O bandwidth which demonstrates the capability of Solaris 10 and the StorEdge 3510 array to deliver real world I/O performance.

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