TPC-C Benchmark Heats Up, Windows Back on Top

The red flag of its HP Superdome server - Itanium side portfolio to the highest scalability premier online transaction processing benchmarks Tuesday, about a month after the original was the top more than one week less, the combination of IBMs displaced and system on the basis of its own AIX / risc/db2 stack.

Related to a series of activities, marking a new interest in the transaction processing performance of the TPC - C test, several years before the small, meaningful activities, at the top of a performance benchmark.

Through optional HPs Superdome, the results of May 9, IBM that the Unix / RISC will not go easily, the current Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition Itanium 2 processors and can scale SMP configuration. Through rapid response, Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Intel have shown that the Wintel alliance partners are willing to fight for the TPC - C bragging rights.

Oracle and Sun have stayed here for this benchmark battle so far, choosing instead to criticize the legitimacy of the current benchmark two vendors widely used in the past.

When NEC Corp. was not released. On the 1st for 514,035 transactions per minute (tpmc) on April 23, this is the first time the new post on the 1st in the non-clustered benchmark since Fujitsu claimed processor giant topped the list with 128, in August 2001. NEC System 32 Itanium 2 processors, Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition and 64-bit SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition.

NEC record for one day. April 24, coinciding with the introduction of Windows Server 2003, HP Superdome and hit 658,277 tpmc 64 processor-based servers running on Intels 64-bit "Madison" processors. "Madison" is a third-generation Itanium chip with 6 MB of cache memory, and is expected this summer. 64 involved in the Microsoft software stack for Windows Server 2003 Data Center Edition and SQL Server Enterprise Edition.

IBM company rapidly increased Lobby to improve the effectiveness of HP tpmc 680,613. IBMs UNIX / RISC result is the cost of 14 percent, higher than the results of Hewlett-Packard, 11.13 / tpmc compared with 9.80 US dollars for HP.

Last Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Intel to charge back to the original performance and the results of 707,102 tpmc cost 9.13 US dollars per tpmc. Improved results represent 4% of the performance of the IBM system cost is 18% lower each transaction.

HP and Microsoft to use the same system, in this two entirely. Apart from the huge database server, configured 6.453 million US dollars, involving 32 pairs of processors, and large storage arrays.

"April 24 on the basis that we have a schedule-driven, said:" SQL Server group product manager Tom mentioned objectives, and a benchmark with the launch of Windows Server 2003. "We do not have Xingnaidiaoyou on this benchmark, we published this benchmark, we decided to go back and do some fine-tuning. Number, we present situation is that the more realistic figure. " At the same time, Microsoft and its partners created a stir three years ago, the introduction of Windows 2000 when they used clusters of Windows and SQL Server machine that runs counter to anchor a benchmark of performance records, far higher than traditional big iron, non-clustered in the Unix / RISC configurations are more similar Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard are running.

The new results, and so far from Microsofts controversial non-Cluster no less than the best results, the results of its cluster. Performance of the new HP Superdome benchmark trails the benchmark clusters running less than 1 per cent (707,102 to 709,220 tpmc).

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