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The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 storage system delivered world record two-node performance on the SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 benchmark, beating results published on NetApp's dual-controller and four-node high-end FAS6240 storage systems. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 storage system delivered a world record two-node result of 450,702 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 Ops/sec with an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 0.70 msec on the SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 benchmark. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-4 storage system...

Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 storage system delivered outstanding performance on the SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 benchmark, beating results published on NetApp's fastest midrange platform, the NetApp FAS3270, the NetApp FAS6240 and the EMC Gateway NS-G8 Server Failover Cluster. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 storage system delivered 210,535 SPECsfs2008_nfs.v3 Ops/sec with an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 1.12 msec on the SPECsfs2008 NFSv3 benchmark. The Oracle ZFS Storage ZS3-2 storage system...

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Oracle's SPARC T5-4 server delivered world record single server performance of 409,721 QphH@3000GB with price/performance of $3.94/QphH@3000GB on the TPC-H @3000GB benchmark. This result shows that the 4-chip SPARC T5-4 server is significantly faster than the 8-chip server results from IBM (POWER7 based) and HP (Intel x86 based). This result demonstrates a complete data warehouse solution that shows the performance both of individual and concurrent query processing streams,...

Oracle produced a world record single-server SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark result of 27,843.57 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS using one of Oracle's SPARC T5-8 servers for both the application and the database tier. This result directly compares the 8-chip SPARC T5-8 server (8 SPARC T5 processors) to the 8-chip IBM Power 780 server (8 POWER7+ processor). The 8-chip SPARC T5 processor based server is 2.6x faster than the 8-chip IBM POWER7+ processor based server. Both Oracle and IBM...

The cryptography benchmark suite was internally developed by Oracle to measure the maximum throughput of in-memory, on-chip encryption operations that a system can perform. Multiple threads are used to achieve the maximum throughput. Systems powered by Oracle's SPARC T5 processor show outstanding performance on the tested encryption operations, beating Intel processor based systems. A SPARC T5 processor running Oracle Solaris 11.1 runs from 2.4x to 4.4x faster on AES 256-bit...

Oracle's SPARC T5-8 server equipped with eight 3.6 GHz SPARC T5 processors obtained a result of 8,552,523 tpmC on the TPC-C benchmark. This result is a world record for single servers. Oracle demonstrated this world record database performance running Oracle Database 11g Release 2 Enterprise Edition with Partitioning. The SPARC T5-8 server delivered a single system TPC-C world record of 8,552,523 tpmC with a price performance of $0.55/tpmC using Oracle Database 11g Release 2....

Oracle produced a world record SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark result of 57,422.17 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS using Oracle's SPARC T5-8 server in the application tier and another SPARC T5-8 server for the database tier. The SPARC T5-8 server demonstrated 3.4x better performance compared to an 8-socket IBM Power 780 server result of 16,646.34 SPECjEnterprise2010 EjOPS. The SPARC T5-8 is 3.7x less expensive for the application server hardware list cost compared to the...

From www.spec.org Defects Identified in SPECjbb®2013 December 9, 2014 - SPEC has identified a defect in its SPECjbb®2013 benchmark suite. SPEC has suspended sales of the benchmark software and is no longer accepting new submissions of SPECjbb®2013 results for publication on SPEC's website. Current SPECjbb®2013 licensees will receive a free copy of the new version of the benchmark when it becomes available. SPEC is advising SPECjbb®2013 licensees and users of the SPECjbb®2013...