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Sun Upstages Competition on TPC-H Benchmark
Starfire Sets Commanding Pace With World-Record Run of 6,569.1 QphH@1000GB
PALO ALTO, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Setting a single-system world record for data center-class systems and following its record-breaking TPC-C run, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
(Nasdaq: SUNW) announced its encore performance of 6,569.1 QphH@1000GB on the industry-standard TPC-H benchmark. The benchmark was performed on a Sun Enterprise(TM)
10000 server, also known as Starfire(TM), running Informix Extended Parallel Server 8.31.FD1, the high-end data warehouse product from Informix, Inc.
Established by the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-H benchmark is an industry-standard Decision Support test designed to measure systems' capability to examine large volumes of
data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions.
Sun's market-leading Starfire server out-dueled a 64-CPU Compaq AlphaServer GS140 configuration at nearly half the price/performance -
1,159/QphH versus Compaq's $2,171/QphH. The Compaq result showed a performance of 6,514.1 QphH@1000GB and had a system availability date of Nov. 1, 1999.
"This benchmark shows that the Starfire is the best single-system solution for the rough-and-tumble world of ad hoc databases typical of today's complex data center environments," said Steve
Campbell, director of marketing for Enterprise System Products, Sun Microsystems. "The reliability of its Starfire outperforms its competitors, even clustered solutions, which have a difficult
time with batch processing and load balancing since they only focus on local transactions."
In other tests, the Starfire achieved an industry-leading aggregate I/O bandwidth of 3 GB/second, made possible by a delivered memory bandwidth of 12 GB/second. By comparison, Hewlett
Packard's V2600 server has a delivered memory bandwidth of 4 GB/second.
Sun continues to outperform its competition and prove performance leadership on the widest possible group of industry standard benchmarks. The versatile 64-way Starfire with 466MHz
CPUs is rated at 3,465 MIPS, more than twice the newest IBM 12-way G6 mainframe. It has also has set or reset 40 world records in its nearly four-year history, including the SAP three-tier
S/D benchmark and other key applications such as the Amdocs and LHS BSCS billing applications. In Starfire's lifetime, Sun has shipped more than 3.7 million mainframe-equivalent MIPS,
outpacing IBM in that same time frame.
Sun's flagship Starfire server delivered 6,569.1 QphH@1000GB at a price/performance of $1,159 $/QphH@1000GB at a five-year lifetime price of $7,610,325. The system, running Informix
XPS software release 8.31.FD1 and Solaris(TM) 7 Operating Environment software, was configured for this benchmark with 64 UltraSPARC(TM) II 466 MHz CPUs, each with an 8 MB
external cache, and 64 GB of memory combined with 32 Sun StorEdge(TM) A5200 and disk array subsystems and 2 D1000 disk arrays totaling 6.4 TB of storage. The configuration is
scheduled to be available February 28, 2001. Tests were conducted at Sun's Large Scale Computing Center in Beaverton, Oregon.
About TPC-H
According to the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-H benchmark evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) that measures the performance of various decision support
systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions. The TPC-H queries are designed to: give answers to real-world business questions; simulate
generated ad-hoc queries (e.g., via a point and click GUI interface); include a rich breadth of operators and selectivity constraints; and, generate intensive activity on the database server. For
additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Council's Web site at tpc.org .
About Sun Enterprise 10000
The Sun Enterprise 10000, or Starfire, server provides up to 64 processors and 16 Dynamic System Domains; Sun is the only UNIX platform vendor to offer these features. The Starfire server
enables customers to run the most demanding, multi-terabyte applications for data warehousing, decision support, online transaction processing and data analytics on a single, scalable server.
The system hosts more than 12,700 applications for the Solaris Operating Environment software and can be clustered with up to four nodes for even greater uptime. The Sun Enterprise 10000
server contains up to 64 GB of shared memory and can support more than 60 TB of storage to confidently handle extreme data warehousing situations.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer(TM)" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength
hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to dot-com their businesses. With $15.7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170
countries and on the World Wide Web at sun.com .
NOTE: Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun logo, Sun Enterprise, Starfire, Solaris, StorEdge and The Network Is The Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc., in the United States and other countries.
CONTACT: Dave Blackburn of Sun Microsystems, Inc., 650-786-4681, or dave.blackburn@corp.sun.com; or Julie Miller of Ketchum, 310-444-1317, or julie.miller@ketchum.com, for Sun
Microsystems, Inc.
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