Re: Itanium performance news...

From: Bill Todd (billtodd_at_metrocast.net)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:04:53 -0400

"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.
Amazing!  A SuperDome with 64 top-of-the-line Madisons has managed to post a
tpmC score almost 8% higher than IBM's POWER4+ system achieves with half as
many processors.  An Itanic accomplishment, indeed!
>
> 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
Well, I guess that pretty much puts to rest the theory advanced by some that
the poor scaling up of the earlier SuperDome TPC-C results was mostly due to
the use of Windows and SQL Server - which generated 5.84x the performance
with 16x the processors (compared with the 4-processor zx1 system), while
the new HP-UX system generates 6.26x the performance with 16x the
processors.  Even if we derate the 4-processor HP-UX system a bit (based on
other TPC-C scores around 5% seems reasonable) to compensate for its having
96 GB of memory vs. the 64 GB for the only slightly-lower-performing Windows
system, the scaling is still under 6.6:1 for a 16:1 system size increase
(about 1.6x the performance for each doubling of processor count).
 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)
Vs. $8.31/tpmC for the IBM offering with similar capacity.
>
> "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
Some people might suggest that claiming to be 'the standard' with
effectively zero market penetration was just a *bit* of a stretch...
...
> 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)
How nice - but this result was published over a month ago.  I guess they
needed something to fill out the press release and didn't just want to use
the lower Linux score that they released today.  But even the better HP-UX
benchmark result doesn't bode well for SuperDome:  IBM's 16-processor system
generates over 3.41x the score of HP's 4-processor zx1, and given how poorly
SuperDome appears to scale (if the TPC-C scaling holds here one might expect
about 2.56x the 4-processor score at 16 processors) it may have considerable
difficulty matching that (let alone in larger configurations).
- bill

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