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NEW YORK, NY -- Today Sun revealed world record performance with the two-tier SAP®-Standard Sales and Distribution (SD) Application benchmark running on the newly announced Sun Fire[tm] 15K server in combination with Sun StorEdge[tm] T3 arrays, supporting 4,100 SAP-SD benchmark users with an average dialog response time of 1.88 seconds and 414,000 order line items per hour. The SAP-Standard SD Application benchmark is a two-tier OLTP test that is indicative of full business workloads of an order line item including creating the order, creating delivery notes, displaying the order, posting a goods issue notice, listing orders and creating an invoice, and demonstrates the ability to run both the application and database software on a single system. The Sun Fire 15K server shows that two-tier workloads can be consolidated on a single server thus meeting the increasing demand for server consolidation to address server sprawl, simplify operations, and lower total cost of ownership. The Sun Fire 15K supports up to 18 Dynamic System Domains, 106 UltraSPARC[tm] III CPUs with over half a terabyte of memory. The SAP R/3® release 4.6C Standard SD Application benchmark was achieved on a 76-way Sun Fire 15K server with 288 GB of memory, running the Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment and Oracle8i. This benchmark fully complies with SAP Benchmark Council's issued benchmark regulations and has been audited and certified by SAP. For more information on this benchmark see www.sap.com/benchmark. Never demonstrated on any other system, the Sun Fire 15K server used two of the MaxCPU boards, which allows CPUs to populate IO slots. SAP-SD represents the critical tasks performed in real-world e-business environments. Results proved unprecedented server consolidation capability, memory and scalability through the Sun Fire 15K system. The Sun Fire 15K system will heighten functionality for users of critical e-business solutions including CRM, SCM, PLM and BI. For more information visit www.sun.com