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To: johnd who wrote (41508)	4/7/2000 12:29:00 PM
From: ericneu	Respond to of 74651

Eric, When is datacenter hitting the market for shipment? DO you know what a 32-way SMP Unisys ES7000 with 866Mhz Pentiums, Windows2000 datacenter and SQL2000 produce in terms of TPC-C? --- I believe Datacenter is expected somewhere around 120 days past the original launch (2/17). I'm pulling that from memory, so please don't quote me on that :). As for how an ES7000 would do on TPC-C, I have no idea. It'll be interesting to find out. - Eric

To: johnd who wrote (41508)	4/9/2000 2:22:00 PM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 74651

johnd - I spoke to some Unisys people at the W2K launch and got the following information relative to your question: DO you know what a 32-way SMP Unisys ES7000 with 866Mhz Pentiums, Windows2000 datacenter and SQL2000 produce in terms of TPC-C? First - Although they constantly referred to the ES7000 as a 32 way system, when I dug a little deeper, these guys said the ES7000 product will initially launch as a 16 way, sometime in mid-year, with extension of the product to 32 way sometime after that. ES7000 will initially be using 550MHz Xeon, not the faster products. Speed upgrades will come later, about the time the 64 bit versions of the product will be available. The people I spoke to did not have a specific date for that upgrade. This would be hard to determine from looking at the information on the Unisys web site ( unisys.no ) Their estimate for database performance of the 16 way configuration was "more than 100,000 TPM-C"... those numbers would be achievable given that they managed 48,767 on an ES5085R running W2K datacenter and SQL Server. But they would need the bigger box to target the single-system numbers from IBM S80 which are in the 130K range. If we just do a simple extension of the 48K 8-way number to 24 processors (which is what the S80 ran) they would beat the IBM number, even with 550MHz Xeon, assuming they can get the scaling.