HP Announces Breakthrough Performance for Superdome Servers
📅 - Hewlett-Packard Company (hp.com) yesterday announced its HPSuperdome server has achieved TPC-C benchmark results that surpasscompetitors Sun and IBM, a leap in presence on the Top 500 SupercomputerSite list and a several new customer wins. The high-end UNIX HP Superdomeserver also come on top of a price reduction also announced yesterday.
The new TPC-C benchmark of 389,434 transactions per minute (tpmC) wasachieved on a 64-way PA-8700 Superdome running Oracle9i Database, with aprice/performance benchmark of $21.24 per transaction. According to acompany statement, this is the best result among the top three UNIX vendorsin the marketplace and showcases Superdome's superior system scalabilitywith large 64-way systems. This result also represents the fastestOracle-based TPC-C result in the industry, the company says.
This result is 76 percent faster and provides a 37 percent betterprice/performance ratio than IBM's highest published UNIX system TPC-Cbenchmark, HP says. Sun is not currently present in high-end TPC-Cbenchmarks. It also represents a 98 percent performance improvement overSuperdome's original result of 197,024 tpmC in early 2001 and gives a 50percent improvement in the price/performance ratio in the server's firstyear on the market. The 98 percent improvement almost doubles the commitmentto performance increase that HP made to its customers during the launch ofSuperdome in 2000.
"We are giving our customers a winning combination of scalable performance,with lower total cost of operation and room for expansion," said MarkHudson, worldwide marketing manager, HP Business Systems and TechnologyOrganization. "HP's single system approach with Superdome delivers a farsimpler and more cost-effective solution than anything our competitors areproviding. With future generations and increased numbers of processors, weplan to deliver huge performance boosts like this over the life of theSuperdome product."
HP's high-end UNIX server business continued to show strong worldwide growthin the fourth quarter of HP's fiscal year 2001 compared to its prior fourthquarter in fiscal year 2000. This marks three consecutive quarters ofhigh-end growth despite difficult global economic conditions.
Underscoring this growth, HP has won an additional 112 sites on the latestTop 500 Supercomputer Sites list, increasing its total from 41 sites in Juneto 153 today. HP is only seven sites short of IBM, the current leader, whichdropped its number of sites held from 215 to 160. Sun dropped its sites from89 to 30 over the same time frame. The HP Superdome server continues tobring in further customers for commercial applications, including Blue CrossBlue Shields of Georgia, Burton Snowboards, China Post, Deutsche Telekom,Dollar general, Donaldson Co., Ford Motor company, Idexx, Kelloggs,University of Oslo, and Veritas Software Corporation.
HP also is announcing further price reductions of up to 30 percent.
The new TPC-C benchmark of 389,434 transactions per minute (tpmC) wasachieved on a 64-way PA-8700 Superdome running Oracle9i Database, with aprice/performance benchmark of $21.24 per transaction. According to acompany statement, this is the best result among the top three UNIX vendorsin the marketplace and showcases Superdome's superior system scalabilitywith large 64-way systems. This result also represents the fastestOracle-based TPC-C result in the industry, the company says.
This result is 76 percent faster and provides a 37 percent betterprice/performance ratio than IBM's highest published UNIX system TPC-Cbenchmark, HP says. Sun is not currently present in high-end TPC-Cbenchmarks. It also represents a 98 percent performance improvement overSuperdome's original result of 197,024 tpmC in early 2001 and gives a 50percent improvement in the price/performance ratio in the server's firstyear on the market. The 98 percent improvement almost doubles the commitmentto performance increase that HP made to its customers during the launch ofSuperdome in 2000.
"We are giving our customers a winning combination of scalable performance,with lower total cost of operation and room for expansion," said MarkHudson, worldwide marketing manager, HP Business Systems and TechnologyOrganization. "HP's single system approach with Superdome delivers a farsimpler and more cost-effective solution than anything our competitors areproviding. With future generations and increased numbers of processors, weplan to deliver huge performance boosts like this over the life of theSuperdome product."
HP's high-end UNIX server business continued to show strong worldwide growthin the fourth quarter of HP's fiscal year 2001 compared to its prior fourthquarter in fiscal year 2000. This marks three consecutive quarters ofhigh-end growth despite difficult global economic conditions.
Underscoring this growth, HP has won an additional 112 sites on the latestTop 500 Supercomputer Sites list, increasing its total from 41 sites in Juneto 153 today. HP is only seven sites short of IBM, the current leader, whichdropped its number of sites held from 215 to 160. Sun dropped its sites from89 to 30 over the same time frame. The HP Superdome server continues tobring in further customers for commercial applications, including Blue CrossBlue Shields of Georgia, Burton Snowboards, China Post, Deutsche Telekom,Dollar general, Donaldson Co., Ford Motor company, Idexx, Kelloggs,University of Oslo, and Veritas Software Corporation.
HP also is announcing further price reductions of up to 30 percent.
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