Hardware

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 Fire^TM 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