Fabric7 SPECjbb2005 Benchmark Shows x86 and Linux Ready for Prime Time Enterprise Computing

Fabric7 Systems, Inc., a company that has achieved a fundamental breakthrough in server design, today announced it has set new standards of performance on the SPECjbb2005 (Java Server) computing benchmark with its Q160 enterprise server. The results of the benchmark testing, published on the SPEC Web site (www.spec.org), clearly establish that the company's next generation architecture delivers enterprise scalability on industry standard hardware and operating systems -- bringing the economics of x86 systems and Linux to the core of the datacenter.

Fabric7 achieved the first truly scalable SPECjbb2005 Linux results, with the findings clearly demonstrating the major advances in performance that Fabric7's unique server design delivers, including:

-- Industry record results for x86 server scalability with a 300 percent

advantage over alternative x86 servers(1);

-- The industry's first scalable and hardware partitionable server that

can be configured as 2-core, 4-core, 8-core or 16-core and deliver from

32,378 to 148,210 bops (business operations per second)(2);

-- 124 to 151 percent superior performance over comparable mid-range (4-

core) x86 servers(3);

-- 66 to 185 percent the performance of comparable systems running

proprietary Unix operating systems and RISC processors with 8 to 16

cores(4).

"Fabric7 is showing customers that the days of having to rely on expensive, proprietary processors and operating systems are over," said Sharad Mehrotra, CEO and co-founder of Fabric7. "With these results we've proved that the Fabric7 architecture enables a level of scalability and performance on x86 platforms that easily competes with more expensive, proprietary systems that have traditionally dominated the midrange and high-end of the server market. By offering this scalability to customers at three to five times lower cost, we are dramatically shifting the economics of enterprise computing."

Fabric7's enterprise servers, the Q160 and Q80, feature the company's fabric computing architecture that combines sophisticated Q-Par™ partitioning technology and hardware accelerated virtualization to deliver the market's best performing SMP servers running Linux with industry standard processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). In addition, the Q160 incorporates an advanced internal I/O subsystem, allowing for multiple systems to be linked together in a wholly dynamic, extremely low-latency fabric.

This unique design enables enterprise customers to create entirely independent and hardware-isolated servers that combine computing power, networking, storage access and offload engines in a matter of minutes -- making the datacenter significantly more flexible, simple and efficient.

Fabric7's SPECjbb2005 Results

The following results are published on the SPEC Web site. SPECjbb2005 (Java Server Benchmark) is SPEC's 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. 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). Performance is measured as "business operations per second" (bops) as defined by SPEC.

Server and Configuration SPECjbb2005 Results

Fabric7 Q160 server with 16 cores, 8 sockets 148,210 bops

Fabric7 Q160 server with 8 cores, 4 sockets 95,587 bops

Fabric7 Q160 server with 8 cores, 8 sockets 87,685 bops

Fabric7 Q160 server with 4 cores, 4 sockets 56,119 bops

Fabric7 Q160 server with 4 cores, 2 sockets 54,761 bops

Fabric7 Q160 server with 2 cores, 2 sockets 32,378 bops

About SPEC

SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb2005 are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Competitive benchmark results stated above reflect results published on http://www.spec.org as of January 23, 2006. For the latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005.

About Fabric7

Fabric7 designs and builds enterprise servers that integrate compute and networking technologies into a dynamic fabric of IT resources. Fabric7 delivers a fundamental breakthrough in server design that provides its customers the flexibility, efficiency, and simplicity required to meet their changing business needs. Fabric7 is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. For more information, visit the company's website at www.fabric7.com or call +1 (650) 210-0100.

Fabric7, Fabric7 Q160, Fabric7 Q80, Q-Par, Q-Visor and the Fabric7 logo are trademarks of Fabric7 Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

(1) Comparison based on SPECjbb2005 published results as of January 23, 2006 for all x86 processor-based systems including the following servers:

-- Fabric7 Q160 (AMD Opteron: 16 cores, 8 chips; 8 cores, 4 chips; 8

cores, 8 chips; 4 cores, 4 chips; 4 cores, 2 chips; 2 cores, 2 chips) - all

running Novell SuSE Linux - 148210, 95587, 87685, 56119, 54761, 32378 bops,

respectively.

-- Sun Fire X4100 (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 2 chips), Sun Fire X4200 (AMD

Opteron: 4 cores, 4 chips), Sun Fire V40z (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 4 chips),

Sun Fire X4100 (AMD Opteron: 2 cores, 2 chips), Sun Fire X4200 (AMD

Opteron: 2 cores, 2 chips), Sun Fire X2100 (AMD Opteron: 1 core, 1 chip) -

all running Sun Solaris - 45124, 45124, 37034, 27004, 27004 and 16070 bops,

respectively.

-- Sun Fire X2100 (AMD Opteron: 1 core, 1 chip) - running Microsoft

Windows; Sun Fire X2100 (AMD Opteron: 1 core, 1 chip) - running Novell SuSE

Linux - 16053 and 15434 bops, respectively.

-- IBM xSeries 346 (Intel Xeon: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft

Windows - 39585 bops.

-- Dell PowerEdge SC1425 (Intel Xeon: 2 cores, 2 chips) - running

Microsoft Windows - 24208 bops.

-- Dell PowerEdge 850 (Intel Xeon: 2 cores, 1 chip) - running Microsoft

Windows - 19485 bops.

-- Tyan S2895 (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft Windows

-- 44574 bops.

-- Primergy RX300 S2 (Intel Xeon: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft

Windows - 41986 bops.

-- Primergy TX300 S2 (Intel Xeon: 2 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft

Windows - 28314 bops.

Source for all data: http://www.spec.org.

(2) Fabric7 results published with SPEC as of January 23, 2006. Comparison based on Fabric7 Q160 (AMD Opteron: 16 cores, 8 chips; 8 cores, 4 chips; 8 cores, 8 chips; 4 cores, 4 chips; 4 cores, 2 chips; 2 cores, 2 chips) -- all running Novell SuSE Linux. Source: http://www.spec.org/jbb2005/results/jbb2005.html.

(3) Comparison based on SPECjbb2005 published results as of January 20, 2006 for all x86 processor-based systems utilizing four processor cores, including the following servers:

-- Fabric7 Q160 (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 4 chips; 4 cores, 2 chips) -

running Novell SuSE Linux - 56119 and 54761 bops, respectively.

-- Sun Fire X4100 (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 2 chips), Sun Fire X4200 (AMD

Opteron: 4 cores, 2 chips), Sun Fire V40z (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 4 chips) -

all running SUN Solaris - 45124, 45124 and 37034 bops, respectively.

-- IBM eServer xSeries 346 (Intel Xeon: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running

Microsoft Windows - 39585 bops.

-- Tyan S2895 (AMD Opteron: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft Windows

-- 44574 bops.

-- Primergy RX300 S2 (Intel Xeon: 4 cores, 2 chips) - running Microsoft

Windows - 41986 bops.

(4) Comparison based on SPECjbb2005 published results as of January 23, 2006 for systems configured with 8 or 16 processor cores, including the following servers:

-- Fabric7 Q160 (AMD Opteron: 16 cores, 8 chips; 8 cores, 4 chips) -

running Novell SuSE Linux - 148210 and 95587 bops, respectively.

-- IBM eServer p5 570 (Power5: 16 cores, 8 chips) - running IBM AIX -

244361 bops.

-- Sun Fire V890 (SPARC: 16 cores, 8 chips) - running SUN Solaris -

117986 bops.

-- IBM System p5 550Q (Power5: 8 cores, 4 chips) - running IBM AIX -

91806 bops.

-- Sun Fire T2000 (SPARC: 8 cores, 1 chip) - running SUN Solaris - 63378

bops.

-- Sun Fire T1000 (SPARC: 8 cores, 1 chip) - running SUN Solaris - 51540

bops.

For complete results please visit www.spec.org.

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SOURCE: Fabric7

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