Paul, Re: ""it was a 275GTB, 1967, cherry condition of course. It even had the original sticker with it, only $12K, and they were asking about $35K. If you see a deal like that again, LET ME KNOW !"
No, that was a few (10?) years ago, not allowed to look at Ferraris anymore (until Intel hits $500). Here's a server price comparison on a tpmC basis that may help it get there. Thanks to Rudedog on Compaq. It's a little squished when copied here, easier to see on the Compaq thread (for the uninitiated in looking at benchmarks, least $/tpmC is best):
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K and all -
Here's a new world record Clustering benchmark - lowest TPC-C for a clustered system.
IDEAS INTERNATIONAL TPC HOT SHEET IDEAS INTERNATIONAL TPC HOT SHEET
23rd December 1998
This Hot Sheet contains the latest results/news released by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC)
All prices quoted are US Dollars, unless stated otherwise.
TPC-C ProLiant 6500-PDC/O1000
Company Compaq
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tpmC 33,935.90
$/tpmC 49.88
Database ORACLE8 Parallel Server v8.0.5
Operating System Microsoft NT 4.0 Ent. Edition
TP Monitor Digital DB Web Connector v1.1
Availability date December 22, 1998
Configuration Client/server
Back-end 4 x ProLiant 6500's
4 x 400MHz/1MB PII Xeon CPU's each
Front-end 4 x ProLiant 1850R's
2 x 400MHz/512KB PII CPU's each
Cost of Ownership $1,692,980.00
Total Storage 3,494 (GB)
Benchmark Revision 3.4
Compaq has announced the results of a TPC-C Benchmark test for the ProLiant 6500 Xeon server. This is the first TPC Benchmark result to be run on this system.
The test configuration consisted of four clustered SMP nodes each with four 400MHz Pentium II Xeon processors and 3.25GB of memory. Today's result used the ORACLE8 v8.05 database manager with Oracle Parallel Server (OPS) options.
It is interesting to note that the total cost of the server hardware (excluding clients) is $918,420. Of this amount only $176,640 is for the server hardware with the bulk of the cost coming from the storage options. Today's result uses a total of 3,484GB of storage which is configured using 32 fibre channel storage enclosures & array controllers populated with 384 x 9.1GB SCSI-3 10K RPM disk drives. The cost of these storage options is in excess of $660,000.
With a Price/Performance ($/tpmC) of $49.88 today's result sets a new record for TPC-C Price/Performance on a clustered configuration.
All components of today's result are available now.
Top Performing TPC-C clustered benchmark results
No. tpmC $/tpmC D/B
1 DigitalAlphaServer 8400 102,541.85 139.49 1
2 IBM RS/6000 SP Model 309 57,053.80 147.40 2
3 Sun Ultra Enterprise 6000 c/s 51,871.62 134.46 3
4 Compaq ProLiant 6500-PDC/O1000 33,935.90 49.88 4 NEW
5 Compaq ProLiant 6500-1 27,383.40 71.50 2
6 IBM RS/6000 R40 SMP 14,285.87 229.00 5
7 IBM RS/6000 J40 SMP 14,285.87 226.00 5
8 Bull Escala Powercluster Svr 14,285.87 235.02 5
9 Sun SPARCcenter 2000E 5,124.21 323.00 6
Top Price/Performance TPC-C clustered benchmark results
No. $/tpmC tpmC D/B
1 Compaq ProLiant 6500-PDC/O1000 49.88 33,935.90 4 NEW
2 Compaq ProLiant 6500-1 71.50 27,303.40 2
3 Sun Ultra Enterprise 6000 c/s 134.46 51,871.62 3
4 DigitalAlphaServer 8400 139.49 102,541.85 1
5 IBM RS/6000 SP Model 309 147.40 57,053.80 2
6 IBM RS/6000 J40 SMP 226.00 14,285.87 5
7 IBM RS/6000 R40 SMP 229.00 14,285.87 5
8 Bull Escala Powercluster Svr 235.02 14,285.87 5
9 Sun SPARCcenter 2000E 323.00 5,124.21 6
Database Key:
1 - Oracle8 v8.0.5
2 - Oracle8 Enterprise Edition 8.0.4
3 - Oracle8 Enterprise Edition 8.0.3
4 - Oracle8 v8.0.5 with OPS
5 - Oracle7 V7.3
6 - Oracle7 V7.3.2
IDEAS INTERNATIONAL TPC HOT SHEET IDEAS INTERNATIONAL TPC HOT SHEET
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