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September 23rd, 2008: Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAVA) and GigiSpaces has
announced new benchmark performance results that address the scalability needs of capital market customers. In rigorous performance tests, the energy-efficient Sun SPARC Enterprise T5240 Server processed 1.3 million transactions per second with 60 concurrent clients to achieve an improvement of up to 40 percent over competing multi-threaded platforms. The average throughput per client thread was sustained at about 21,000 transactions per second. When matched against comparable x86 systems, users get up to five times higher performance in half the space and 2.5 times better performance per watt.

Sun Microsystems and GigaSpaces Break 1.3 Million-Messages-Per-Second Benchmark on Sun Server with C

Sun Microsystems and GigaSpaces Break 1.3 Million-Messages-Per-Second Benchmark on Sun Server with C

Ambreesh Khanna, Head of the Global Financial Services Industry Group, SunMicrosystems: "This is great news for our customers in the financial services sector that need high-performance computing platforms tomeet severe scalability" "This is great news for our customers in the financial services sector that need high-performance computing platforms to meet severe scalability, throughput and latency demands. ...continued