Sun Fire T1000 Server With CoolThreads(TM) Technology Outperforms All Competing 1U Systems on the Market

1 January 1970

Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW) today announced it has posted SPECweb2005 benchmark results for the recently-released Sun Fire T1000 server, with the innovative UltraSPARC-T1 processor. The Sun Fire T2000 server has the best SPECweb2005 results but the Sun Fire T1000 server now has the second best results for this important web benchmark. The Sun Fire server T1000 posted a SPECweb2005 score of 10466 which is second only to the SPECweb2005 score of the Sun Fire T2000 server. The results of the Sun Fire T1000 server were achieved using a complete Sun software and hardware solution using Solaris 10 and Java System Webserver 6.1 SP5.

These new Sun Fire T1000 results demonstrate the superior web performance of the UltraSPARC-T1-based servers and Sun software. The Sun Fire T1000 server, which is 1 rack unit high and uses only 220 watts in its largest configuration demonstrates unbeatable performance/watt.

-- The Sun Fire T1000 server demonstrates superior performance and

superior performance/watt when compared to competing servers:

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 14% greater performance than the

IBM System x3650 with the latest Intel 2x Dual Core 3.0 GHz Xeon 5100

processors.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 25% greater performance than the

4 core/2 chip Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX220 S1 with 2400 MHz Opteron

processors.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 33% greater performance than the

4 core/2 chip IBM p5 550 with 1.9 GHz POWER5+ processors. The

POWER5+ systems requires about 4x more power at 825 watts.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 64% greater performance than the

4 core/2 chip Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX300 S3 with 3733 MHz Xeon

5080 processors.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 87% greater performance than the

4 core/2 chip Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S2 Dual-Core with

2800 MHz Xeon processors.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 130% greater performance than the

2 core/2 chip Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S2 with 3800 MHz Xeon

processors.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 115% greater performance than the

2 Processor, 4 Core Dell PowerEdge 2850 server with 2 x Dual Core

2.8GHz Xeon processors, all while consuming nearly 2.5X less power

and delivering over 5X better performance per watt. This result is

achieved in half the space of the Dell/SuSE Linux solution.

- The Sun Fire T1000 server delivers 140% greater performance at just

under 2.5x less power than the 2-processor IBM eServer xSeries x346

with 3800 MHz Xeon processors, thereby delivering nearly 5.5X better

performance per watt. This result is achieved in half the space of

the IBM/SuSE Linux solution.

The 1 RU Sun Fire T1000 server has one 1.0GHz 6-core/24-thread UltraSPARC-T1 processor or one 8-core/32-thread UltraSPARC-T1 processor. The Sun Fire T1000 server uses a maximum of 220 watts for an 8-core, 16GB system. The 8-core/16GB Sun Fire T1000 server that was tested is priced at $11,995. A Sun StorEdge 3510 disk array was used for external storage.

Go to http://www.spec.org for full SPEC results.

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SPECweb2005 Current Competitive Results

System SPECweb2005 Banking Support Ecommerce #CPU/MHz cores

* Sun Fire T2000 14001 21500 13160 21500 1x1200 1x8

* Sun Fire T1000 10466 20000 7700 16500 1x1000 1x8

* IBM System

x3650(*) 9182 15000 8800 13000 2x3000 2x2

* Fujitsu RX220

S1Opt 8394 15000 8340 10480 2x2400 2x2

* IBM p5 550 7881 12240 7500 11820 2x1900 2x2

* Fujitsu RX300 S3 6400 12360 4700 10000 2x3733 2x2

* Fujitsu TX300

S2 DC 5597 10600 4700 7800 2x2800 2x2

FOOTNOTING:

(1) IBM p5 550 - 4U

IBM x3650 - 2U

Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX220 S1 - 1U

Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX300 S3 - 2U

Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S2 - Tower Systems

(*) IBM/Intel 2xskt Woodcrest

Result currently under SPEC review but is considered public since IBM result was disclosed publicly at http://www.intel.com/performance/server/xeon/web.htm and http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/060523/20060523005578.html.

Sun Fire T1000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 10466 SPECweb2005. Sun Fire T2000 (8 cores, 1 chip) 14001 SPECweb2005. IBM System x3650 (4 cores, 2 chips) 9182 SPECweb2005. Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX2200 S1 (4 cores, 2 chips) 8394 SPECweb2005. IBM p5 550 (4 cores, 2 chips) 7881 SPECweb2005. Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY RX300 S3 (4 cores, 2 chips) 6400 SPECweb2005. Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S2 (4 cores, 2 chips) 5597 SPECweb2005; Dell PowerEdge 2850 (2 cores, 2 chips) 4850 SPECweb2005. Fujitsu Siemens PRIMERGY TX300 S2 (2 cores, 2 chips) 4555 SPECweb2005. IBM eServer xSeries x346 (2 cores, 2 chips) 4348 SPECweb2005. IBM eServer xSeries x346 (2 cores, 2 chips) 4237 SPECweb2005. SPEC, SPECweb reg tm of Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Results from http://www.spec.org as of May 30, 2006.

Alex Plant

Sun Microsystems, Inc.

415-786-3451

alex.plant@sun.com

Source: prnewswire

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