Dell PowerEdge Servers With Red Hat Linux Offer Top Performance Benchmarks.Business Editors LinuxWorld Conference & Expo SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 15, 2000 Dell, a world leader in Internet commerce and infrastructure computing, and Red Hat, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions for Internet infrastructure, announced today at the opening of the LinuxWorld Conference & Expo here a new benchmark test that shows Dell(TM) PowerEdge(TM) servers running Red Hat Linux Red Hat Linux, assembled by Red Hat, was a popular, "middle-aged" Linux distribution (not as old as Slackware but older than Ubuntu) upon its discontinuation in 2004.[1] Red Hat Linux 1.0 was released on November 3, 1994. to be the fastest Web solution of those tested in a Web server environment (1). Test results for 33 servers running SPECweb99, the Standard Performance Evaluation Performance evaluation The assessment of a manager's results, which involves, first, determining whether the money manager added value by outperforming the established benchmark (performance measurement) and, second, determining how the money manager achieved the calculated return Corporation's benchmark for measuring the performance of web servers, have been posted on SPEC's Web site, http://www.spec.org. since August, 1999. The SPECweb99 benchmark simulates how many individual visitors can be connected to a particular Internet or intranet site simultaneously. Dell and Red Hat worked together with the open source community to configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. several servers for the SPECweb99 benchmark. The fastest systems were the Dell PowerEdge This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. 8450 and Dell PowerEdge 6400 servers running Red Hat Linux 6.2 modified with a beta version A pre-shipping release of hardware or software that has gone through alpha test. A beta version of software is supposed to be very close to the final product, but, in practice, it is more a way of getting users to test the software in the first place under real conditions. of the upcoming 2.4 Linux kernel The nucleus of the Linux operating system. The Linux kernel, which was developed by Linus Torvalds, was integrated with software from the GNU Project and other sources to create the actual Linux operating system. See Linux, GNU/Linux and kernel. and the new TUX web server The TUX web server is an in-kernel web server for Linux licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It is maintained by Ingó Molnár. It is currently limited to serving static web pages and coordinating between kernelspace modules, userspace modules, and regular developed at Red Hat. "The 2.4.x Linux kernel provides nice scalability as is demonstrated through TUX's impressive SPECweb99 benchmark figures," said Linus Torvalds Linus Benedict Torvalds (born December 28 1969 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish software engineer best known for initiating the development of the Linux kernel. . "These benchmark results show how the open source community drives advanced performance computing concepts - TUX pulls together these concepts to take full advantage of the performance enhancements of the 2.4 kernel." In these tests, the eight-way PowerEdge 8450 running Red Hat Linux 6.2 was able to accommodate 6,387 Web connections, 99 percent faster than the closest competitor's submitted performance benchmark for systems with eight or more processors. The PowerEdge 6400 with Red Hat Linux 6.2 supported 4,200 Web connections, about 133 percent more than the nearest four-processor system benchmark submitted. For SPEC's complete test results visit http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/. About Red Hat TUX 1.0 The Red Hat Threaded Linux Web Server Add-on (TUX) is a new Web server available from Red Hat in August 2000, and is comprised of a new kernel and a small set of changes to existing machines to utilize the new kernel technology. TUX makes use of kernel level operation to achieve higher efficiency in dealing with the kernel's TCP/IP stack An implementation of the TCP/IP communications protocol. Network architectures designed in layers, such as TCP/IP, OSI and SNA, are called "stacks." See TCP/IP, OSI model and protocol stack. and provides a configuration and setup interface to user space applications. Major improvements in performance are achieved by using hardware independent algorithms to improve efficiency of operation and reduce the amount of work that is done more than once in typical network application. About Dell Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. (Nasdaq:DELL) is the world's leading direct computer systems company, based on revenues of $28.5 billion for the past four quarters, and is a premier provider of products and services required for customers to build their Internet infrastructures. The company ranks No. 56 on the Fortune 500, No. 210 on the Fortune Global 500 and No. 3 on the Fortune "most admired" lists of companies. Dell designs, manufactures and customizes products and services to customer requirements, and offers an extensive selection of software and peripherals. Information on Dell and its products can be obtained on the World Wide Web at www.dell.com. Dell, PowerEdge, PowerVault and OpenManage are trademarks of Dell Computer Corporation. Dell disclaims any proprietary interest in the marks and names of others. Red Hat Linux is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. (1) SPECweb99 is a trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluations Corp. (SPEC). Competitive numbers shown reflect results published on www.spec.org as of August 14, 2000. For the lastest SPECweb99 results, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/web99. |
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