Sun'S Solaris Delivers Best SPECweb Performance Ever; Fastest Web Server Scores For Any Operating System on Any Hardware Platform With Intel's New Pentium II Xeon Processor.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1998--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced record-breaking SPECweb96 Web server benchmark test results that beat any previously published results as tested on Intel's new Pentium II Xeon (processor) Pentium II Xeon - The successor to Intel Corporation's Pentium II processor. The Xeon has the same P6 core as existing Pentium Pro/Pentium II units, but it supports a 100 MHz system bus and offers as much as 2 MB of level 2 cache. http://intel. processor for servers. SPECweb96 is the industry's first standardized benchmark for measuring the performance of World Wide Web servers. The new 7,781 SPECweb96 HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. operations per second rating from Sun is the highest ever posted for any operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. running on any hardware platform. The industry-standard test was conducted on a 400 Mhz Pentium II Xeon processor-based four-way NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers server running Solaris software and Sun(TM) WebServer(TM). "These record-breaking results demonstrate that Solaris is not only the best performing and most scalable operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. , but the optimal choice for Intel-based computers," said Rich Green, vice president of Solaris Software, Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA[3]) is an American vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information-technology services, founded on 24 February 1982. . "By delivering a world-class software environment to Intel, Sun is helping to unleash the full power of the Pentium II Xeon Processor. Sun's Solaris operating environment will take advantage of Intel's Extended Server Memory Architecture -- a collection of technologies that allows operating systems and enterprise applications to achieve a fundamental performance benefit and transcend the 4 Gigabyte memory barrier. Intel's Pentium II Xeon processor is the first IA32 processor to provide complete support for this architecture. "Sun's Solaris, running on the highly-scalable Pentium II Xeon processor for servers, delivers unsurpassed value to business users in the enterprise computing market segment," said John Miner, vice president and general manager for Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "These solutions deliver excellent flexibility and versatility, while also providing outstanding price/performance for the customer." Designed for IT professionals, line-of-business managers, Internet Service Providers Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. (ISPs), and power users, Sun's Solaris operating environment can be accessed and used by any type of device connected to the network, including high-performance workstations, Microsoft Windows computers and Windows NT servers. Unlike other operating environments, Solaris software is tuned for network computing and exploits the full capability of both SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill (TM) and Intel-based computers. It is extremely fast, highly reliable, scalable, secure, very easy to install and use, optimized for the Java(TM) technology platform and supports more than 12,000 applications. SPECweb96 SPECweb96 is the industry's first standardized benchmark for measuring performance of World Wide Web servers. The benchmark focuses on server performance, measuring the ability of the server to service HTTP requests. It measures the response time for each request and calculates a metric based on overall throughput, measured as maximum benchmark operations per second. The benchmark was developed by SPEC's Open Systems Group in conjunction with leading Web product vendors and research organizations, including Sun Microsystems. About Sun Microsystems Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision, "The Network Is The Computer(tm)," has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ), to its position as a leading provider of high quality hardware, software and services for establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the Internet. With more than $9 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 150 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://www.sun.com. Note to Editors: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, The Network is the Computer, Java, Solaris and Sun WebServer, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. Products bearing the SPARC trademark are based upon architecture developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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