Elmer & Intel Investors - IBM's 450 MHz Xeon 32 Node 4-way Server Cluster Sets Performance Records !
Move over Sun Microsystems !
If you check out the specs on this machine - at the IBM web site quoted below - you will note that the machine has 32 nodes, with EACH NODE made up of 4 each 450 MHz Xeon CPUs with 2 MegaBytes Cache.
That comes to 128 Xeons with a "list price" of about $3692.
That one machine "could" have netted Intel $472,576 in CPU Revenues.
Even if Intel gave IBM a 30% discount for the 128 piece "volume order", that would still come to $330,800 worth of XEON Revenue - PER MACHINE !
IBM needs to get busy and sell a few hundred of these every month !
Paul
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January 13, 1999 12:06
IBM Sets Price, Performance Records for 32-Node Netfinity Server
Cluster on Windows NT
SOMERS, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 13, 1999--
Teraplex Center will Help ISVs Optimize Software for Large, Commercially Available, Multi-Node Clusters of Netfinity Servers IBM today shattered the Windows NT scalability barrier with the industry's first-ever one terabyte TPC-D(b) benchmark on Windows NT. Using a 32-node cluster of IBM's Intel-based Netfinity(a) servers running IBM
DB2(a) Universal Database, IBM set new records for price performance and power for one terabyte of user data(1), out performing a 64-way Sun Ultra-SPARC and all other server systems in the industry.
The benchmark effectively demonstrates that IBM is the only vendor that can offer true scalability -- the ability to incrementally grow the server/database solution as customer needs change -- on Windows NT.
"We're taking the same technologies developed for mainframe systems and applying them to IBM's Netfinity servers," said Phil Hester, chief technology officer, IBM PSG. "Our experience in clustering, I/O
and other system-critical areas has allowed us to deliver performance and scalability from standard Netfinity servers rivaling that of mainframes."
"The race for ownership of the high-end NT data warehouse marketplace is on and IBM has taken a clear leadership position," said Stephen Brobst, Strategic Technologies Systems. "The astounding benchmark
results delivered by DB2 Universal Database and clustered Netfinity servers clearly raise the stakes by demonstrating record-setting performance on NT with very high scalability."
Clustering Help for ISVs
The 32-node Netfinity cluster will become a cornerstone of the Netfinity Partners in Development program. Through the program, IBM offers ISVs and operating systems vendors technical resources and expertise to help them optimize their products for the Netfinity platform. Housing the cluster, a Teraplex Center will provide a "real-world" testing ground for vendors to research, measure and tune their applications for large, clustered enterprise environments.
The capabilities of the Teraplex Center are unmatched by other hardware vendors:
IBM is the first and only vendor to demonstrate the ability to handle a terabyte of data on NT, a capability once only the province of mainframes. Additionally, IBM is the only vendor to test systems with multiple users, running the TPC-D benchmark with eight parallel query streams, more accurately representing a real user environment and a new record for concurrency.
Real Performance, Real Hardware: Right Now
Not only does this benchmark establish new records for database capability, but the records were broken with hardware that is readily available today: IBM Netfinity servers and IBM Serial Storage Architecture Disk technology.
"IBM's Serial Storage Architecture disk subsystem was a critical component of this record-breaking TPC-D result," said Frank Elliot, vice president, marketing and strategy, IBM Storage Systems Division.
"The subsystem's full duplexed connection combined with the ease of management capabilities enable both the high scalability, reliability and performance needed to complement the total system configuration
used in achieving this world record."
The performance breakthroughs, which were verified by Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC(b)) auditors on January 11, 1999, ranked the 32-node Netfinity cluster and DB2 Universal Database
as the performance and price/performance leader among all hardware and database vendors for 1000GB TPC-D results. The planned availability of the DB2 Universal Database software used to achieve these
results is June 30, 1999. An executive summary of the TPC-D report can be obtained on the Internet from IBM Netfinity at pc.ibm.com.
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) Benchmark D simulates data modeling and trend analysis of information contained within a large database such as a data mart or data warehouse.
Customers can use TPC-D results to better understand the relative performance of business intelligence systems from different vendors. More information on the TPC-D benchmark can be found at the
Transaction Processing Performance Council web site at tpc.org.
(1) In TPC-D benchmark testing. 36,872 QppD@1000GB, 8,166.9 QthD@1000GB, $352/QphD@1000GB.
Availability Date June 30, 1999. Additional details are available at
pc.ibm.com. Results referenced in this document are current as of
January 11, 1999.
(a) Trademark or registered trademark of International Business Machines Corp.
(b) TPC Benchmark, TPC-D, QppD, QthD and QphD are trademarks of the Transaction Processing
Performance Council.
All other company/product names and service marks may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their
respective companies.
Editors' Note: All IBM news releases are available on the Internet at ibm.com. Specific
information about IBM Netfinity products, services and support can be located at
ibm.com. Information about IBM DB2 Universal Database can be found at
software.ibm.com.
CONTACT: Michael Corrado
IBM
914-766-3052
corrado@us.ibm.com
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