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Sun Microsystems today announced a new industry-standard benchmark record running Sun Studio 11 software and using Sun's Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), on the recently launched, high performing Sun Fire x64 (x86, 64-bit) servers. The Sun Studio 11 software is the upcoming release of compilers and performance analysis tools optimized for the Solaris 10 OS running on Sun Fire servers. The new record highlights the combined power of Sun Studio 11 and Solaris 10. It also builds on four additional benchmarks announced last month which showed that the new Sun Fire servers, when run with Sun Studio 11 and the Solaris 10 OS, performed at least 28 percent better than any x64 Intel-based server in their class. Sun Studio Software: Next Version Delivers More World Record Performance Sun Studio 11 software, planned for release in November, will allow Sun customers to take advantage of performance improvements provided by compiler optimizations, on top of the faster performance achieved by the new Sun Fire x64 servers. The x86 world record SPECfp2000 result shows that Sun Studio 11 software will provide up to a 10 percent boost in performance for Sun Fire x64 systems running the Solaris 10 OS. Detailed results can be found at its Web site. The SPEC CPU2000 benchmark suite CFP2000 measured performance while running Sun Studio 11 software for two-way configurations of Sun Fire X4100 servers equipped with two AMD Opteron Model 254 processors. The servers, which were running the Solaris 10 OS using the Sun Studio 11 software compiler, set a new world record for all x86 compatible systems by delivering a SPECfp2000 result of 2,518.