SPEC Releases New Application Server Benchmark.Business Editors WARRENTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 28, 2004 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 Corp. (SPEC) has released SPECjAppServer2004, a new benchmark that measures the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE (Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition) A platform from Sun for building distributed enterprise applications. J2EE services are performed in the middle tier between the user's machine and the enterprise's databases and legacy information systems. ) application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is a completely new benchmark and not comparable to SPEC J2EE benchmarks released in late 2002. It includes a modified workload and features that stress more of the capabilities of J2EE 1.3 or later application servers. "We've been aggressive in releasing new versions of SPECjAppServer benchmarks so we can provide performance evaluation tools that evolve in concert with J2EE," says Kaivalya M. Dixit, SPEC president. "J2EE is the foundation software in many modern e-commerce implementations. This benchmark provides a level playing field See net neutrality. on which to test and compare the latest J2EE hardware and software platforms." Emulating a real-world workload SPECjAppServer2004 tests performance for a representative J2EE application and each of the components that make up the application environment, including hardware, application server software, JVM See Java Virtual Machine. JVM - Java Virtual Machine software, database software, JDBC drivers, and the system network. It was developed by SPEC's Java subcommittee, which includes BEA BEA - Basic programming Environment for interactive-graphical Applications, from Siemens-Nixdorf. , Borland, Darmstadt University of Technology History On October 10, 1877 Ludwig IV, Großherzog von Hessen und bei Rhein (Grand Duke of Hesse), named the Polytechnic School Technische Hochschule zu Darmstadt , Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Intel, Oracle, Pramati, Sun Microsystems and Sybase. The workload is an application that emulates information flow among an automotive dealership, manufacturing, supply chain management, and an order/inventory system. The latest version expands the SPECjAppServer benchmark to exercise more capabilities of J2EE application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 load drivers access the application through the web layer for the automotive dealership and through Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) for the manufacturing domain. The new benchmark also measures performance for the web tier and messaging infrastructure. Performance is measured in SPECjAppServer2004 by a metric called JOPS JOPS jAppServer Operations Per Second JOPS Joint Operations Planning System JOPS Java Open Particle System JOPS Joint Operational Planning System JOPS JUMPS On-line Processing System JOPS Journal of Program Survival (jAppServer Operations Per Second). The metric is derived by adding the operations per second in the dealer domain to the work orders per second in the manufacturing domain. Available immediately SPECjAppServer2004 is available immediately from SPEC for $2,000. More information is available at http://www.spec.org/osg/jAppServer2004 or through e-mail at info@spec.org. About SPEC SPEC is a non-profit organization that establishes, maintains and endorses standardized benchmarks to measure the performance of the newest generation of high-performance computers. Its membership comprises leading computer hardware and software vendors, universities, and research organizations worldwide. For more information, contact Dianne Rice, SPEC, 6585 Merchant Place, Ste. 100, Warrenton, VA 20187, USA; phone: 540-349-7878; fax: 540-349-5992; e-mail: info@spec.org; web: www.spec.org. J2EE, Java, and EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. SPECjAppServer is a trademark of SPEC. |
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