Re: Itanium performance news...
From: John Smith (a_at_nonymous.com)
Date: 07/30/03
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:36:17 GMT
Are we going to see VMS results published when the time comes, or will
VMS continue to be hidden from view?
"Fred Kleinsorge" <my-last-name@stardotzko.dec.com> wrote in message
news:IwVVa.1140$044.460@news.cpqcorp.net...
> This just came across my screen in e-mail:
>
> HP and Oracle Set Transaction Processing World Record - Break 800K
Barrier
> HP Integrity Servers and Oracle Database Establish Record-breaking
> Benchmarks on Multiple Operating Systems Across Diverse Workloads
>
> PALO ALTO, CALIF., JULY 30, 2003
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>
> HP (NYSE:HPQ) and Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq:ORCL) today announced the
> world-record benchmark result of 824,164 transactions per minute
(tpmC) on
> the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-C benchmark(1) achieved by
the
> first ever system, clustered or non-clustered, to eclipse the 800K
tpmC
> barrier.
>
> An HP Integrity Superdome server with 64 IntelŪ ItaniumŪ 2
processors 6M
> running the 64-bit HP-UX 11i v2 operating system, HP StorageWorks
Virtual
> Array 7110 and Oracle Database technology outperformed all
competitive
> offerings for transaction processing, while also delivering a top 10
TPC-C
> single-system price to performance ratio for high-end system of
> $8.28/tpmC.(1)
>
> "HP's strong alliance and strategic development with Oracle enables
us to
> deliver performance that firmly establishes HP Integrity servers as
the
> standard for 64-bit architectures," said Rich Marcello, senior vice
> president and general manager, HP Business Critical Servers. "With
> world-record performance on an industry-standard platform, HP
Integrity
> servers offer customers the flexibility and value required for the
demanding
> business challenges of managing an adaptive enterprise."
>
> HP and Oracle also announced the leading TPC-C benchmark result for
a
> four-processor system. The HP Integrity rx5670 server running HP-UX
11i v2
> and Oracle Database technology posted a result of 131,639 tpmC with
a price
> to performance ratio of $7.25/tpmC,(2) beating all previously
published UNIX
> based server results on transaction processing cost.
>
> "Oracle Database technology and HP Integrity servers provide a
strong
> platform for running both memory and processing intensive
solutions," said
> Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president, Database Server
Technologies at
> Oracle. "Both companies are committed to providing a scalable,
reliable and
> flexible platform to run demanding mission-critical solutions, while
meeting
> customer requirements of performance and better business value."
>
> Record Result for Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark
>
> HP and Oracle also established a new world record for the Oracle
> Applications Standard Benchmark (OASB) on four-processor systems.
The HP
> Integrity rx5670 server running HP-UX 11i v2 and Oracle Database
achieved
> 6,440 concurrent users, with an average response time of 0.6
seconds.(3)
>
> The companies also produced the best ever four-processor OASB result
for a
> Linux-based server, achieving 5,992 concurrent users, with an
average
> response time of 0.6 seconds,(4) running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS
2.1 and
> Oracle Database technology. Both the four-processor UNIX and
Linux-based
> operating system results exceed all other four-processor system
results
> across all other architectures on the market.
>
> HP Integrity Servers Deliver Record-setting Performance
>
> "Customers are beginning to ask more of the standards-based server
products
> they are installing in their enterprise data centers," said Jean S.
Bozman,
> research vice president, IDC. "The migration to industry-standard
hardware
> components is driven mainly by cost advantages conferred by volume
> shipments. But the ability to produce high-performance benchmarks
and to
> support scalability of 64 processors, or more, on a server system
that is
> based on industry-standard hardware components is noteworthy, and it
should
> contribute to accelerated adoption of HP's Itanium 2-based Integrity
servers
> for commercial application deployments."
>
> In addition to these benchmark records, HP Integrity servers,
ranging from
> one- and two-processor to 64-processor systems, have established
dozens of
> record benchmark results on multiple operating systems and workload
> categories. Record-breaking results range from the first 64-way
SPECjbb2000
> Java Server benchmark of more than 1 million operations per second
to the
> fastest 64-way microprocessor Linpack performance and record-setting
> SPECweb99_SSL performance.(5)
>
> A complete list of record benchmark results produced on HP's
Integrity
> servers is available at
> www.hp.com/products1/servers/integrity/performance.html.
>
> About Oracle
>
> Oracle is the world's largest enterprise software company. For more
> information about Oracle visit our website at www.oracle.com.
>
>
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