SOMERS, N.Y - 01 Jul 1999: . . . IBM today announced a new world record for transaction processing by clustered servers, surpassing all other computer makers in a key computing criteria used to evaluate both system performance and availability.
According to testing submitted yesterday to the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), a not-for-profit industry organization, a cluster of five 12-way RS/6000 S70 Advanced Enterprise Servers running AIX 4.3.2, IBM's HACMP clustering software, and an Oracle Version 8.0.5 database, set a new benchmark record of 110, 434 (tpmC) (5) transactions per minute. This displaces Compaq, which posted 102,542 tpmC (5). It more than doubles the performance of the latest cluster effort from Sun Microsystems, and at a lower cost per transaction.
"These latest results further bolster IBM's position as an industry leader in clustered systems and sets the stage for users to expect nearly triple the performance in the fall when IBM introduces its S80 Enterprise Server," said Harvey J. Hindin, director of High Availability and Cluster Service at D.H. Brown Associates in Port Chester, New York. A full report by D.H. Brown on the S70 Advanced TPC-C results is available at: http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/resource/technology/spbenchmark.html.
The record setting benchmark is another feather in the cap of the S70 Advanced, IBM's most powerful 64-bit symmetric multiprocessor system. Since its introduction last year, the S70 Advanced has come to be relied on by businesses running critical online transaction processing, Enterprise Resource Planning, and supply chain management applications. As versatile as it is powerful, the S70 Advanced can run both 32- and 64-bit applications concurrently and can be attached to the RS/6000 SP to provide an extremely large database server for ERP.
"Balanced server design that can address both scalable performance and availability has always been a technology design philosophy in the RS/6000 server roadmap," noted Brad Day, vice president and senior analyst, GIGA Information Group. "While the upcoming S80 technology release later this year will significantly improve on single system performance improvements, this S70 Advanced HACMP cluster benchmark becomes the new high-water mark for I/T organizations whose server selection criteria demands both scalable performance and scalable availability."
"The S70 Advanced is a powerful and scalable server that meets the workloads and requirements of our growing business," said Rey Santelises, vice-president of Internet Operations at Prodigy. "For our database applications such as User Profile and Mail, it delivers the 64-bit computing strength we need to serve our Internet customers quickly and efficiently."
"The performance of the S70 Advanced speaks volumes about the scalability and vital performance capabilities of AIX and the RS/6000 platform ," said David V. Gelardi, director, Benchmarking and Applications Performance, IBM RS/6000. "Customers not only get superior performance, they also get the industry's best UNIX high availability solution, all at an affordable price. It's an unbeatable combination for e-business success!"
In October, IBM is planning to introduce the S80, a 6- to 24-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system that, when fully configured, is expected to offer up to three times the performance of a fully configured S70 Advanced system. To help protect S70 Advanced customers' investments, IBM plans to offer an attractive upgrade to the S80.
D.H. Brown recently ranked IBM's clustering technology as the industry's best, rated AIX as the best operating system, and found IBM RS/6000 servers were the best among all UNIX vendors for general business computing.
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(5) Reported Benchmarks and availability dates as of July 1,1999. Please consult
TPC Web page for future updates that may change these results.
tpmC IBM: 110,434 tpmC, Compaq: 102,542 tpmC, Sun: 51,871 tpmC
$/tpmC
IBM: $122.44/tpmC, Compaq: $139/tpmC, Sun: $134/tpmC
system availability
IBM: 6/30/99, Compaq: 9/15/98 & Sun: 2/23/98
date submitted
IBM: 6/30/99, Compaq: 5/5/98, Sun: 10/3/97
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Jeff Gluck
IBM
914-766-3839
jgluck@us.ibm.com
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