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Platforms:
HP, Oracle Top 1 Million
Transactions Per Minute
HP and Oracle broke through a key technology performance barrier, becoming
the
first companies ever to top 1 million transactions per minute on the
Transaction Processing Council's TPC-C benchmark.
The result was achieved running Oracle Database 10g, an HP Integrity
Superdome
server and Intel Itanium 2 processors. The benchmark not only sets a new
industry record, but also reflects the power of industry-standard servers
running the UNIX operating system in "scale up" single server
configurations.
HP and Oracle achieved 1,008,144.49 tpmC with a price/performance ratio of
$8.33/tpmC. This result is 30 percent faster than achieved by the nearest
competitive hardware vendor. The benchmark configuration consisted of a
(non-clustered) 64-way HP Integrity Superdome running HP-UX 11i v2 with Oracle
Database 10g and used HP StorageWorks Virtual Arrays 7110 configured with 36
gigabyte and 73 gigabyte drives.
With the result, HP now holds the top three TPC-C performance results,
including the top UNIX, Linux and Windows results.
"HP and Oracle offer the choice, scalability and flexibility to meet
customer
needs," said Rich Marcello, senior vice president and general manager of
Business Critical Servers at HP. "Today's benchmark result is a prime example
of HP's leadership with Integrity servers running Oracle and of our joint work
to build a platform to support our mutual customers' most demanding
requirements as well as scale with them as their business grows."
HP and Oracle have a long history of performance leadership. The
combination
of HP Integrity servers and Oracle has held a leadership position in single
system OLTP performance across all other Linux and UNIX solutions.
Furthermore, HP also published the first TPC-C 64-bit Linux benchmark on
Oracle Database 10g.
"Oracle and HP together have always delivered outstanding performance and
price-performance for our joint customers," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior
vice president of Oracle Database Server Development. "Today's results show
that Oracle Database 10g scales to the highest level of performance on a
single, large UNIX server and gives customers an excellent platform for
deploying their highest performance database workloads."
"This benchmark demonstrates the benefits of using the Intel Itanium 2
processor for world-class performance computing and shows the flexibility of
Itanium-based HP servers running HP-UX," said Mike Fister, senior vice
president of the Enterprise Platforms Group for Intel Corp. "We're confident
that as IT managers look to find the most competitive solutions for their
enterprise needs, the combination of Oracle on HP Integrity servers based on
Intel processors is the natural choice for performance, with significant
benefits in ease of manageability and lowest total cost of ownership."
The benchmark results announced follow the record-breaking benchmark on an
HP
Integrity server running Linux recently announced at OracleWorld San
Francisco. In addition, HP Integrity servers, ranging from one- and
two-processor to 64-processor systems, have established dozens of record
benchmark results on multiple operating systems and workload categories.
About HP
HP is a technology solutions provider to consumers, businesses and
institutions globally. The company's offerings span IT infrastructure,
personal computing and access devices, global services and imaging and
printing for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses. For the
last four quarters, HP revenue totaled $71.3 billion. More information about
HP is available at www.hp.com.
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