Subject:
Record Breaking TPC-D Results Demonstrate Performance of Oracle8 and Data
General NUMA Technologies
Date:
Mon, 12 Jan 1998 06:54:13 -0800 (PST)
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Topic: (NYSE:DGN) Data General,
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Headline: Record Breaking TPC-D Results Demonstrate Performance of Oracle8 and
Data General NUMA Technologies
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WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--January 12, 1998--Oracle
Corporation and Data General Corporation today announced the
industry's best price/performance and highest Oracle performance
achieved to date on the Transaction Processing Council Benchmark D
(TPC-D) 300-GB test.
The decision-support benchmark was run on a Data General AViiON
AV 20000 NUMA server with 32 Pentium Pro processors running Oracle8,
the Database for Network Computing, and using CLARiiON Fibre Channel
storage technology.
"The TPC-D benchmark proves once again that Oracle and Data
General are delivering bigger, faster and cheaper solutions," said Dr.
Tom Hildebrand, vice president, Intel/MIPS Products Division at Oracle
Corporation. "The attractive pricing of this combination removes entry
barriers, yet it scales to large data warehouses as the application
grows."
"Our goal for the AV 20000 was to develop a cost-effective,
highly scalable and modular system. By establishing a new
price/performance standard in this benchmark, we have shown that our
implementation of the NUMA architecture using industry-standard
components is paying off," said Linda Mentzer, vice president of Data
General's UNIX Business Unit. "With the AV 20000, customers in
information intensive industries such as retail, telco, and healthcare
can cost effectively build very large decision support applications
based on Oracle's and Data General's DG/INSiiGHT(SM) data warehousing
and decision-support products."
Top Five TPC-D 300-GB Oracle results for non-clustered SMP systems
*T
Power Throughput P/P Availability
Vendor/System (QppD)@300GB (QthD)@300GB $/QphD@300GB
Data General AViiON
AV 20000 3305.8 1277.7 $1,319 2/98
Sequent NUMA-Q 2000 3232.3 1097.8 $3,283 2/98
Sun Starfire Ultra
Enterprise 10000 2009.5 1241.9 $3,326 5/97
Sun Starfire Ultra
Enterprise 10000 1787.9 1122.3 $3,562 5/97
Sun Ultra
Enterprise 6000 1006.0 588.0 $3,447 5/97
*T
System Configuration
The benchmark tests were conducted on an AV 20000 NUMA server
with 32 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors with 512-KB L2 cache, 16 GB of
memory, and 1.5 Terabytes of fully connected CLARiiON FC 5000 Fibre
Channel storage running Oracle8 rev 8.0.4 and DG/UX 4.20. DG/UX is
Data General's UNIX operating system implementation. The AV 20000
supports fully connected I/O for redundancy and high performance
through direct connections between each four-processor Scalable
Building Block and large disk farms.
Availability
The AViiON AV 20000 server, DG/UX 4.20, and CLARiiON storage are
available now. Oracle8 rev 8.0.4 is scheduled for availability in late
February.
AV 20000: Second-Generation NUMA Systems
The AV 20000 server is shipping in volume with up to 32 200-MHz
Intel Pentium Pro processors, optional 1-MB L2 cache, up to 32 GB of
memory, and up to 100 Terabytes of fault- tolerant CLARiiON fibre
channel storage. In clustered configurations, the processor count
grows to 128. Future systems will continue to aggressively implement
Intel processor technology and Data General's NUMA architecture, which
can logically address up to 1,024 processors.
The AV 20000 is enjoying worldwide customer acceptance for use in
a wide range of applications, including the industry's first shipment
of a 32-processor NUMA system based on Intel technology. AV 20000
customers include Bloomberg Financial Markets, HBO and Co., F. W.
Webb, Metal Building Components Inc., Party City, Vanguard Cellular,
and the City of Temple in Texas, in the US; the Directorate of
Information Systems in Northern Ireland; Booker Food Group, Booker
Belmont Wholesale, FSS Travel & Leisure Ltd., J. Sainbury PLC, and
Travis Perkins Trading Co. in the UK; Texaco - Pembroke Refinery in
Wales; Universidade do Minho in Portugal; the Egyptian Capital Market
Authority and the Misr Clearance, Settlement, and Deposit in Egypt;
Gribbles Pathology in Australia; and Taeseung Trading and Gil General
Hospital in South Korea.
Oracle8
Oracle8, the Database for Network Computing, manages large
amounts of information securely, reliably, and economically over
computer networks. Oracle8 enables high-speed transactions, better
business decisions, and sophisticated object-relational applications.
Built on a foundation of proven technology, Oracle8 is designed to
lower an organization's computing costs, manage all types of data, and
deliver faster information access to all kinds of users.
About the TPC-D Benchmark
The TPC-D benchmark represents a broad range of decision-support
applications, requiring seventeen comprehensive and complex queries as
well as two update functions to be processed over a vast amount of
data. Thus, TPC-D tests provide a good demonstration of system
performance which translates well to customer applications.
The three primary TPC-D metrics are Query Processing Performance
(QppD), which measures raw query execution when all available
resources are concentrated on a single query; Query Throughput (QthD),
which measures the system's ability to process concurrent queries; and
Price/Performance ($/QphD) calculated by dividing the five-year cost
of system ownership (hardware, software, and maintenance) by the
composite of the two performance metrics. For more information about
TPC benchmarks and results, please visit the Transaction Performance
Council web site at www.tpc.org .
About Data General
Data General, based in Westboro, Massachusetts, specializes in
servers, storage systems, and related software and services for
customers worldwide. The company reported fiscal 1997 revenues of $1.5
billion. Additional information on the company, its products, and
services is available on the Internet at www.dg.com .
About Oracle
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software
for information management, and the world's second largest software
company. With annual revenues of $6 billion, the company offers its
database, tools and application products, along with related
consulting, education and support services, in more than 140 countries
around the world. For more information about Oracle, please call
650/506-7000. Oracle's World Wide Web address is (URL)
http//www.oracle.com/.
AViiON, CLARiiON, and DG/UX are registered trademarks and
DG/INSiiGHT is a service mark of Data General Corporation. Oracle is a
registered trademark and Oracle8 and The Database for Network
Computing are trademarks of Oracle Corporation. All brand and
product names appearing in the press release may be trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
CONTACT: Data General
Carlos Soares, 508/898-6674
carlos_soares@dgc.ceo.dg.com
or
Data General
Jim Dunlap, 508/898-6546
jim_dunlap@dg.com
or
Oracle Corporation
Joel Dibble, 650/506-5319
jdibble@us.oracle.com
KEYWORD: MASSACHUSETTS
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: COMED COMPUTERS/ELECTRONICS PRODUCT
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