The studies (except for the e-commerce study) were conducted using the following hardware. For hardware information for the e-commerce study, see Hardware for E-Commerce Test.
Web Server system configuration for static content:
Sun Microsystems Sun Fire T2000 (120 MHz, 8 cores) (only six cores were used for this test)
16256 Megabytes of memory
Solaris 10 operating system
Three Sun StoreEdge 3510
Web Server system configuration:
Sun Microsystems Sun Fire T2000 (1000 MHz , 6 cores)
16376 Megabytes of memory
Solaris 10 operating system
Driver system configuration:
Three Sun Microsystems Sun FireTM X4100
Four Sun Microsystems Sun Fire V490 ( 2 X 1050 MHzUS-IV)
Three Sun Fire T1000
Sun Fire 880 (990 MHz US-III+)
8192 Megabytes of memory
Solaris 10 operating system
Network configuration:
The Web Server and the driver machines were connected with multiple gigabit Ethernet links