HP Sets World Records with New Dual-Core Integrity Servers

HP Sets World Records with New Dual-Core Integrity Servers

HP Integrity servers, running dual-core Intel Itanium 2 “Montecito” processors and the HP-UX 11i v2 operating environment, set world performance records in newly-published industry-standard TPC-C1 and TPC-H2 benchmarks.

“We are excited to bring dual-core processing into HP Integrity servers and demonstrate commanding benchmark leadership out of the gate,” said Don Jenkins, vice president of marketing, Business Critical Servers, HP. “Powered by Itanium 2 technologies and running HP-UX 11i and Microsoft Windows Server 2003, HP Integrity servers are ready to rock the data center, helping customers extract maximum price/performance for their most demanding workloads.”

The new world record results are as follows:

· The world’s fastest 4-core TPC-C result. The HP Integrity rx6600 with two dual-core Itanium 2 processors, running HP-UX 11i v2, Oracle 10g, and HP StorageWorks arrays, now holds the record for four-core TPC-C performance — across all operating systems and processor architectures.3 The result also demonstrates world-record four-core UNIX price/performance, with 33% better price/performance than IBM’s fastest four-core TPC-C result with the Power5 processor.4

· The world’s fastest 16-core, one terabyte TPC-H result. The HP Integrity rx8640 with eight dual-core Itanium 2 processors, running HP-UX 11i v2, Oracle 10g, and HP StorageWorks arrays, now holds the record for 16-core TPC-H performance.5 The newly published rx8640 result demonstrates 33% better price/performance than the closest equivalent IBM Power5 published result.6 This published result also demonstrates better per-core performance than any other one terabyte TPC-H result using Oracle, and any other one terabyte TPC-H result using UNIX. It also shows the best price/performance of any one terabyte TPC-H result using Oracle, DB2 or Sybase databases.

In addition to these just announced benchmarks, HP disclosed in July record benchmarks on HP Integrity servers, running dual-core Intel Itanium 2 “Montecito” processors and the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating environment. The Integrity rx6600 server with four dual-core Itanium 2 processors, running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 holds the record for 8-core Windows TPC-C performance. The Integrity rx8640 server with sixteen dual-core Itanium 2 processors, running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 holds the record for 16-core Itanium 2-based 1TB TPC-H performance.

Notes:

1. TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable transaction processing performance data to the industry. TPC-C is an on-line transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark. TPC-H is a decision support benchmark. URL: http://www.tpc.org.

2. On 8/1/2006, HP published 230,569 tpmC, at $2.63/tpmC, for the HP Integrity rx6600, running HP-UX 11i v2 and Oracle 10g. System availability is 12/1/2006. URL: http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=106080101

3. IBM eServer p5 570, AIX 5L V5.3, Power5 – 1.9 GHz, 203,440 tpmC, $3.93/tpmC, 10/17/2005 system availability. URL: http://tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=105101702

4. On 8/4/2006, HP published 27,144 QphH, at $36.00/QphH, for the HP Integrity rx8640, running HP-UX 11i v2 and Oracle 10g. System availability is 1/1/2007. URL: http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=106080401

5. IBM eServer p5 570, AIX 5L V5.3, DB2 UDB 8.2, Power5 – 1.9 GHz, 26,156 QphH, $53.43/QphH, 12/15/2004 system availability. URL: http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=104091501

6. To be added to match above paragraph

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