System including a middleware machine environment

A method of providing a middleware machine or similar platform, comprising the steps of:

• providing a high performance computing hardware system, including one or a plurality of processors, a high performance memory, and redundant InfiniBand and Ethernet networking;
• providing thereon a middleware environment that includes one or a plurality of application server instances;
• and
• wherein the system includes one or more of zero buffer copies, scatter/gather I/O, parallel multiplexed T3 connections, and/or lazy deserialization, and can be provisioned quickly and scale on demand.

A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to perform the steps comprising:

• providing a high performance computing hardware system, including one or a plurality of processors, a high performance memory, and redundant InfiniBand and Ethernet networking;
• providing thereon a middleware environment that includes one or a plurality of application server instances;
• and
• wherein the system includes one or more of zero buffer copies, scatter/gather I/O, parallel multiplexed T3 connections, and/or lazy deserialization, and can be provisioned quickly and scale on demand.