Sun also announced the Sun Savings Challenge to give customers a view into how the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server competes with other vendors' servers on key buying criteria including performance, cost, power, space and management. Qualified customers can apply for a free on-site assessment and receive a detailed total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) analysis. Other benefits of the Sun Savings Challenge include white papers and technical solution briefs. The Challenge will also be available for the Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 servers.

Delivering up to four times the performance of competitive quad-socket servers, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server is an ideal consolidation and virtualization platform for enterprise applications including large scale OLTP databases, CRM and ERP. In a compact 4 RU package, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server increases server utilization while reducing energy consumption and lowering operating costs.

Enterprise-class world records include:

1. Two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark - The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running on the SAP ERP application Release 6.0 and Oracle Database Server 10g on the Solaris 10 OS delivered the highest four-processor result on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark, as of Oct. 13, 2008. The breakthrough score of 7,520 SAP SD Benchmark users posted by the new SPARC Enterprise server (4 processors/32 cores/256 threads) outperforms four processor two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark results achieved on the IBM System p570 Power6 (4,010 SAP SD Benchmark users). When compared with HP Integrity rx6600 running Intel Itanium2 processors (1,750 SAP SD Benchmark users) the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server achieved up to four times the number of SAP SD Benchmark users.

2. Siebel CRM 8.0 PSPP - The SPARC Enterprise T5440server has claimed the world record on the Siebel CRM PSPP benchmark, which is designed to stress systems running Siebel CRM software, one of the most widely used CRM applications. The unprecedented result of 14,000 active Siebel benchmark users was set on a single SPARC Enterprise T5440 server with Sun Java System Web server, Siebel CRM Application Servers and Oracle Database software using Solaris Containers. Siebel CRM 8.0 PSPP is a multi-tier benchmark that simulates the real-world requirements of a large organization consisting of thousands of users simultaneously accessing a call center from multiple departments. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server proves to be the most energy and space efficient server in the industry consuming only 1,276 watts during the benchmark in only four RUs.

3. SPECjbb2005 - Pairing the most stable Java technology implementation on the market with the industry's most efficient multi-socket CMT platform propels the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server to the top spot in the four processor category on this Java-based Enterprise benchmark. The Sun HotSpot JVM running on top of Solaris 10 10/08, the forthcoming update to the Solaris 10 OS, sets a new standard for scalability by leveraging the 256 threads of the UltraSPARC T2 Plus processors and beats the IBM System p550 result by almost 2x while demonstrating 1.5x better performance per watt.

4. SPECjAppServer2004 - The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running the Solaris 10 OS and Oracle WebLogic Server 10g raises the bar for other single application server results on the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark. Benefiting from the scalability of the CMT architecture, the newest SPARC Enterprise server increases the competitive pressure by beating Java application servers based on the latest IBM Power6, Intel Itanium2 and Intel Xeon processors. In addition, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server delivered record performance per watt and scored best performance per rack unit for a Java application server. On the database tier of the benchmark, another SPARC Enterprise T5440 server running Oracle Database 11g on Solaris 10, supported this single-node world record SPECjAppServer2004 result.

High Performance Computing (HPC) world records include:

• SPECompL2001, SPECint_rate2006, SPECfp_rate2006: The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server provides a portable, scalable platform for developing and deploying parallel applications and for running compute-intensive workloads, particularly when coupled with the Solaris 10 OS and Sun Studio 12 software. The new SPARC Enterprise T5440 server has achieved three world record results for all quad-processor systems on the following industry standard benchmarks: SPECompL2001, SPECint_rate2006 and SPECfp_rate2006.

Integer performance and the ability to parallelize workloads provide CMT-based systems with a significant advantage on real-world workloads like string searching or pattern matching. These operations often present in a variety of commercial, government and HPC applications ranging from bio-informatics to computer virus detection software. In Sun internal testing, the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server demonstrated up to 27x the throughput of an IBM Cell Broadband Engine DD3 blade and performed string searching 3.3x faster than the HP DL 580 G5 server with four Intel Xeon CPUs. With such vast integer-intensive and memory-intensive searching and matching capabilities the SPARC Enterprise T5440 server could search a book as tall as Mt. Everest (29,035 feet) in mere 68 seconds.