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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 22, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 38
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Breaking News -
Platforms:
RackSaver Delivers Best
Price/Performance Server In TPC Tests
RackSaver, a premier provider of high-density individual rack-optimized
servers, blade servers and supercomputing clusters, announced the Transaction
Processing Performance Council's results for its latest enterprise-class
server, the RS-2164/op-r, powered by the AMD Opteron processors. The TPC-C
benchmark results revealed a sizable gap in the price/performance ratio in
favor of RackSaver when measured among the industry's top makers, including
IBM, Dell and HP. RackSaver's RS-2164/op-r has a cost of $2.06/tpmC, which is
more economical than the nearest competitor at $2.25/tpmC.
TPC-C is one of the Transaction Processing Performance Council's standard
benchmarks for measuring enterprise server performance. TPC-C is an online
transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark that simulates a complete computing
environment where a population of users executes transactions against a
database. The benchmark is centered around the principal activities
(transactions) of an order-entry environment.
"Our customers are getting a great value with excellent performance at a
lower
cost," said David Driggers, president and CEO of RackSaver. "This benchmark
provides further evidence that RackSaver is the world leader in providing
performance and price leading server solutions to the High Performance
Computing market, and with these exceptional results, firmly establishes us as
a leader in the enterprise marketplace."
"The AMD Opteron processor is enjoying phenomenal success in the clustering
and HPC markets," said Marty Seyer, vice president and general manager of
AMD's Microprocessor Business Unit. "Quality builders such as RackSaver are
realizing the benefits of the AMD Opteron processor as it further enables them
to provide the highest performing products available to their customers."
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