New IBM Server Achieves Championship Benchmark Results

New IBM Server Achieves Championship Benchmark Results

The IBM System p5â„¢ 595 server announced today has seized the number one spot in five key industry benchmarks, demonstrating unmatched strength in both commercial and technical workloads. The dazzling performance underpins the flexibility of IBM’s Power Architectureâ„¢ technology, which serves as the foundation of systems ranging from video games to transaction processing machines to the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The quintet of IBM benchmark victories for the 64-core System p5 follows:

Transaction Processing — In the TPC-C benchmark, measuring the ability of a server to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data the System p5 595 running a single instance of the IBM DB2® 9 data server on the AIX 5Lâ„¢ operating system and using IBM System Storageâ„¢ DS4800 processed 4,016,222 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $2.98/tpmC [1], versus the HP Integrity Superdome’s performance of 1,231,433 tpmC at $4.82/tpmC [1]. The TPC-C benchmark is an industry standard for measuring the ability of a system to process complex online transactions and large volumes of business data. The TPC-C benchmark is unique in the way it exercises all components of a system, including processors, memory, networking, storage, operating system and database software, demonstrating total system performance in a way that many of the other benchmarks touted by some competitors do not.

SAP — In the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application benchmark, the IBM System p5 595 running a single instance of the IBM DB2 9 data server and using IBM System Storage DS8300 achieved 23,456 Sales and Distribution Benchmark users versus Fujitsu-Siemens’s result of 21,000 Sales and Distribution Benchmark users. [2] This benchmark evaluates the performance of a single server running both the database and application for a Sales and Distribution environment using a standard application benchmark provided by SAP AG.

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