Java SDK5, SDK6 and Beyond: A Performance Update

With updates to the SDK5 and SDK6 products, IBM continues to demonstrate concerted investment in its Java technology for System z. IBM's SDKs are powered by the IBM J9 Virtual Machine and IBM Testarossa JIT Compiler across all JSE platforms, including Linux for System z and z/OS. During this presentation the speaker will review highlights of the new J9/TR technology before diving into key System z exploitations in JIT and garbage collection. A wide range of industry standard measurements, zEnterprise performance and exploitation, Large Pages, Decimal Floating Point, 64-bit heap compression, and WebSphere performance improvements will also be covered.