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Oracle Delivers World Record Java Virtual Machine Performance for
Windows with SPECjbb2005 Benchmark
Oracle® JRockit on HP ProLiant Server Outperforms Competition
Redwood Shores, CA - March 16, 2009
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Today, Oracle announced that Oracle® JRockit, Java Virtual Machine
(JVM), achieved a world-record Windows result on the SPECjbb2005
benchmark,(1) an industry-standard measurement of server-side Javabased application performance.
In addition to being the new world record on Windows, this benchmark
result also sets a new world record on AMD Opteron™ processor-based
systems, and outperforms all other 8-socket systems using competing
JVMs.(2)
Oracle JRockit delivered 1,181,782 SPECjbb2005 bops, running on an HP
ProLiant DL785 G5 server, the newest addition to the award-winning HP
ProLiant product line, with eight quad-core AMD Opteron 2.7 GHz
processors, 64 GB RAM and Microsoft Windows 2008, surpassing a result
using the Sun JVM(3) on a near-identical system by nearly 14 percent, and
a similarly sized IBM Power system using the IBM JVM(4) by 36 percent.
Oracle JRockit integrates technology from Oracle Fusion Middleware and
BEA Systems and illustrates the rapid progress that Oracle is making in
combining industry-leading technologies from the two companies into a
unified product offering.
The Oracle JRockit family of products, a key component of Oracle Fusion
Middleware, provides a comprehensive portfolio of Java runtime solutions
that includes the industry's fastest solution for standard Java. (5) Oracle
JRockit is a high performance Java Virtual Machine developed to help
ensure reliability, scalability, manageability and flexibility for Java
applications. Oracle JRockit enables a new level of performance for Java
applications at significantly lower costs to the enterprise.
SPECjbb2005 (Java Server Benchmark) developed by the Standard
Performance Evaluation Corporation, is a benchmark for evaluating the
performance of server side Java. SPECjbb2005 evaluates the
performance of server side Java by emulating a three-tier client/server
system (with emphasis on the middle tier). The benchmark exercises the
implementations of the JVM (Java Virtual Machine), JIT (Just-In-Time)
compiler, garbage collection, threads and some aspects of the operating
system. It also measures the performance of CPUs, caches, memory
hierarchy and the scalability of shared memory processors (SMPs).
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“This world record Windows benchmark result is further validation that
Oracle JRockit is the world’s fastest Java Virtual Machine and
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demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to improve our customer’s total cost of
ownership by providing excellent performance on commodity hardware,”
said Juan Loaiza, senior vice president, Systems Technology, Oracle.
“Oracle continues to set the bar above the competition and delivers a new
level of performance for Java applications to Oracle Fusion Middleware
customers.”
“Organizations looking for superior performance and an aggressive total
cost of ownership, can rely on the HP ProLiant,” said Lorraine Bartlett,
director of server marketing, Business Critical Systems, HP. “The
scalability of the HP ProLiant DL785, combined with Oracle JRockit,
delivers a platform that helps ensure Java-based applications run both
reliably and cost-effectively.”
“This impressive world record on Windows Server 2008 demonstrates
Oracle and AMD’s joint collaboration to optimize Java performance. It
serves as a powerful proof point of the excellent TCO that can be obtained
when running Oracle JRockit JVM on servers powered by the new 45nm
Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor,” said Earl Stahl, vice president,
Software Development, AMD.
Supporting Resources
 Oracle Fusion Middleware
 Oracle JRockit
 White Paper: Mission Critical Java
 HP ProLiant DL700 servers
 AMD
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Other
SPEC, SPECjbb are registered trademarks of Standard Performance Evaluation
Corporation. All results from www.spec.org as of March 15, 2009.
1. 1181782 SPECjbb2005 bops, 147723 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, HP DL785
G3, 8x AMD Opteron 8384, 64 GB RAM, Microsoft Windows 2008, Oracle
JRockit 6 P28.0.0.
2. Compared to all results available on
http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/jbb2005.html.
3. 1037851 SPECjbb2005 bops, 129731 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, Sun Fire
X4600 M2, 8x AMD Opteron 8384, 128 GB RAM, Sun Solaris 10, Sun HotSpot
1.6.0_06 Performance Release
4. 867989 SPECjbb2005 bops, 108499 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM, IBM Power
570, 8x IBM POWER6 5.0 GHz, 128 GB RAM, IBM AIX 6.1, IBM J9 2.4 AIX
5. SPECjbb2005 bops world record holder since April 2006 based on results
available from http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/jbb2005.html.
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Oracle
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Jim Rivas
Oracle
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