Sun’s Server Delivers Best Price Performance – First to Break the $200/QphH@3000GB Barrier for Any Configuration
Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced another record-breaking benchmark in a series of announcements that further validates its performance and price/performance superiority. Performance tests of Oracle9i Database Release 2 running on the Sun Fire 15K server, Sun StorEdge arrays and the Sun ONE platform have established Sun as the fastest performing and best price/performance single system on the market. This industry standard benchmark represents ad-hoc queries and is representative of the real-world decision support and data warehousing applications. IBM has yet to run a TPC-H benchmark on its mainframe or p690 single-system server.
The Sun Fire 15K system outperformed the next best single server, the HP Superdome, 23 percent on the high-load throughput test. Throughput is a measure of a heavily-loaded system, it also beat HPs price/performance by seven percent.
The benchmark was performed on a 72-way 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC[r] III processor-based Sun Fire 15K system with 288GB of memory, running the industry-leading Solaris 9 Operating System (OS) and Oracle9i Database Release 2, topping the performance of all HP systems. The server also utilized 33 Sun StorEdge A5200 disk arrays. The system delivered 28,948.1 QphH@3000GB at a price performance of $184/QphH@3000GB, with a scheduled availability of April 30, 2003.
The versatile 72-way Sun Fire 15K server with 1.200 GHz CPUs is rated by Sun at 7,250 Mainframe Equivalent MIPS, which surpasses the fastest IBM mainframe, while maintaining a lower price. Following are TPC-H Version 2 performance and price/performance results currently published for the 3000GB scale factor.
| System | #CPUs |
QphH @300GB |
$/QphH @300GB |
Throughput | Availability |
|
Sun Fire 15K server
|
72
|
28,948.1
|
$184
|
24,139.6
|
04/30/03
|
|
HP 9000 Superdome
|
64
|
27,094.3
|
$213
|
19,600.9
|
10/30/02
|
|
Teradata NCR 5350
|
128
|
79,528.0
|
$213
|
68,085.1
|
12/20/02
|
|
HP ProLiant DL760 X900-128P
|
128
|
21,053.5
|
$283
|
18,657.8
|
06/20/02
|
|
HP 9000 Superdome
|
64
|
17,908.4
|
$476
|
13,224.3
|
05/15/02
|
About TPC-H
Established by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the TPC-H benchmark is an industry-standard Decision Support test designed to measure systems’ capability to examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. The TPC-H benchmark evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) and a price/performance metric $/QphH@size) that measure the performance of various decision support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions.
TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the TPC. For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Performance Council’s Web site at http://www.tpc.org/
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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