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Compaq ProLiant Servers running Microsoft SQL Server and
Windows 2000 Produce Record-Breaking Performance
REDMOND, Wash., Feb. 21, 2000 -- By last August, when Compaq
unveiled its eight-way ProLiant 8800 and 8500 systems for the
burgeoning e-business market, the company had already achieved
remarkable performance results from a single machine running SQL
Server -- proving that customers could rely on this low-cost solution
for high-performance e-business applications.
With the explosive growth in e-business, Compaq knew that customers
would demand increasing performance and scalability from their
systems. But Compaq realized that its ProLiant servers -- combined
with the high performance, clustering and scalability of SQL Server and
Windows 2000 -- could achieve even greater results. So Compaq
engineers teamed up with Microsoft's SQL Server and Windows 2000
development groups to see how far they could take this performance in
scale-up and scale-out scenarios.
This proved to be a winning combination. On the eve of the Windows
2000 launch, after dozens of sleepless nights, Microsoft and Compaq
engineers shattered world records for performance on the
industry-standard TPC-C benchmark, using a cluster of 12 ProLiant
servers in a scale-out configuration, running SQL Server 2000 and
Windows 2000. The system processed an astonishing 227,079 order
transactions per minute, the best results for any hardware, operating
system or database. (Click here to read Compaq's press release.)
"The combination of Compaq ProLiant servers with Microsoft SQL Server
and Windows 2000 is a clear winner for e-business customers," said Jim
Allchin, group vice president of the Windows Division at Microsoft.
"These results further prove that Compaq hardware and the Microsoft
platform provide customers with a clear roadmap for almost unlimited
Internet scalability."
The Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark
measures transaction-processing-system throughput in terms of orders
processed per minute, providing an objective way for customers to
evaluate database performance. By this benchmark, a cluster of 12
Compaq ProLiant 8500 servers, each with eight Intel Pentium III Xeon
processors, processed 227,079.15 order transactions per minute
(tpmC), eclipsing by 67 percent the previous record of 135,815 tpmC
set on a single RISC/UNIX-based system. The results are also a 68
percent improvement over the previous best cluster results (from a
96-processor, four-node RISC/Unix-based system.) The tpmC
performance achieved by Microsoft and Compaq clearly demonstrates
the power these systems can offer to e-business customers -- the rate
of 227,079.15 transactions per minute represents a volume 575 times
larger than the combined transaction volumes of Amazon.com and eBay.
"Compaq is in a unique position to build and deliver this kind of solution,"
said Microsoft OEM division vice president Richard Fade. "Their
industry-leading eight-way server technology provides a cost-effective
way for ISPs, ASPs and dot-coms to deliver the kind of performance
and reliability they require -- combined with Windows 2000 and SQL
Server, it's a winning solution for e-business customers." |
