Sun T series servers

We've been measuring how our server software performs on Sun T series servers against the older V series.

The results with the T series have been very encouraging. For comparable servers the T series performance is around double the throughput of the V series. We're very pleased with this. This is good news because comparable T series cost less than V series and power consumption is lower. With Sun SPARC binary compatibility all the applications still run the same.

I'm very impressed with the T series. One component of our application runs on Tomcat. I wasn't sure how a busy Tomcat would run on a T1000 with a load test. It ran really well. I guess the JVM threading implementation does a good job of utilizing the T series multicore architecture.

The Sun T series is a very interesting architecture. Just one physical CPU with a clock speed in the modest range of 1-1.2 Ghz. The multicore architecture with many CPUs and independent execution threads on the single chip is remarkable.

You can now try out some advanced Sun technology like the T series servers for a free trial using Sun try and buy program.

I've worked with Sun hardware and over the last decade and I've always been a fan. I hope Sun and Solaris can continue to innovate prosper and stay around.