LHS, a provider of telecom billing and customer care systems across the wireless, wireline, and IP telecom markets worldwide, announced that Sun Microsystem's SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers delivered the best ever results on benchmarks testing LHS' BSCS iX Release 2 telco billing and charging solution.

 

SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers with Solaris reportedly generated an unprecedented 1.89 million bills per hour and supported over 15 million calls per hour with average latency of 13.3 ms, LHS said.

 

According to Sun, SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers with Solaris is a high-end powerhouse server that delivers the best of SPARC/Solaris OS computing for virtualization and consolidation projects in the datacenter. It has the ability to deliver SPARC/Solaris processing with mainframe-class features and data center reliability for the open systems market.

 

The server is optimized for 24x7 mission critical computing and large shared memory applications, Sun said. The system features mix and match up to 32 or 64 quad-core SPARC64 VII processors or dual-core SPARC64 VI processors and up to 2 TB memory.

 

By using SPARC64 VII quad-core processors, the server reportedly provides an almost double performance improvement on HPC or floating-point intensive workloads and up to 80 percent more performance on commercial applications.

 

SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers are provided with mainframe RAS capabilities. They support up to 288 PCIe or PCI-X slots with the external I/O expansion unit and provide ideal consolidation platform with up to 24 dynamic domains and thousands of Solaris containers per system

 

This LHS testing showed the scalability and performance ability of the SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers, LHS said. The server configuration also showed that 99 percent of transactions had a latency of less than 41 ms under full load. This is the best value ever measured and is much better than previous benchmarks, said the release.

 

SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers are 100 percent binary compatible with SPARC Enterprise processors. The server is available as a Sun System Pack. Installation services are built on open source technologies.

 

 

 

 

SPARC Enterprise M9000 servers are built on the collaborative relationship between Sun and Fujitsu. Both companies had announced the enhanced line of SPARC Enterprise servers - M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000 in July.