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NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - International Business
Machines Corp. <IBM.N> said Monday it unveiled a software
alliance to develop a single operating system that will run on
IBM server computers that use the company's computer chips and
others that use Intel Corp. <INTC.O> chips.
Under the alliance, the Armonk, N.Y. computer giant, will
combine its software technology with that of Santa Cruz
Operation Inc. <SCOC.O> and Sequent Computer Systems Inc.
<SQNT.O> to develop a multiuser, multitasking UNIX operating
system that runs on IBM and Intel microprocessors.
In a statement, IBM said it would make "significiant"
investments for this UNIX system software that will run on
entry-level to large enterprise IBM servers -- large computers
that run corporate computer networks.
IBM and Intel are creating a multi-million dollar fund to
allow software companies to develop programs to run on the new
UNIX system software.
An IBM official declined further comment on financial terms
of the alliance.
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Sequent's Second-Generation NUMA-Q(TM) Eclipses Competition
in Price/Performance Metric for a Single-Node UNIX System
Demonstrating clear price/performance leadership for UNIX
decision support environments, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
(Nasdaq:SQNT.O) together with Informix(R) and CLARiiON delivered
record-breaking TPC-D (Transaction Processing Performance
Council-Decision Support) benchmark price/performance results for UNIX
on a single-node system.
Sequent additionally posted impressive results for performance
per processor and I/O (input/output) performance. Sequent ran the
benchmarks at the 300 GB scale on its second-generation NUMA-Q(TM)
2000 servers, announced separately today, with 32 Pentium(R) II
Xeon(TM) processors running Informix Dynamic Server database software
and CLARiiON(R) FC5000 Series Fibre Channel storage systems.
In the TPC-D price/performance metric, NUMA-Q 2000 posted a
record breaking $740 per QphD for a single-node UNIX system in the 300
GB category. Comparatively, Sun Microsystems Enterprise 10000 or
Starfire server came in at $1,400 per QphD -- nearly twice the cost.
Sequent came within five percent of Starfire's performance with half
the number of processors. Sun's benchmark system used 64 SPARC RISC
processors (see "Competitive Price/Performance Chart").
"These results demonstrate Sequent's leadership in
price/performance for decision support solutions, and validate the
substantial performance and throughput gains of our second-generation
NUMA-Q systems," said Jeff Pancottine, vice president of global
marketing for Sequent. "Our partnership with Informix and CLARiiON
provided the industry's most cost-effective data warehousing
environment for UNIX on a single system for high scalability and
performance."
"Informix Dynamic Server continues to prove its price/performance
leadership with the excellent results in this benchmark with Sequent
and CLARiiON," said Steve Weick, vice president of research and
development at Informix. "The Informix and Sequent relationship
assures our joint customers of world-class high end data warehousing
solutions that deliver the scalability, speed and cost effectiveness
required to win in today's market."
"Sequent's next generation NUMA-Q 2000 systems take full
advantage of the CLARiiON FC5000's Fibre Channel capability for high
performance, high availability, and configuration flexibility," said
Joel Reich, director, Fibre Channel marketing for CLARiiON. "The
FC5000 system, as demonstrated by this benchmark, sets a new standard
for price/performance, and is ideal for customers with applications
requiring very high throughput."
Result Overview
The benchmark was run on a Sequent second-generation NUMA-Q 2000
server, announced today. The benchmark system featured 32 Intel
Pentium II Xeon processors, 32 GB memory and 32 fibre channel host
adapters. The benchmark system ran Informix Dynamic Server with both
the Advanced Decision Support Option(TM) and Extended Parallel
Option(TM) and included 32 CLARiiON storage systems for a total of 256
disks, all Fibre Channel direct attachments. The benchmarks were run
at the 300 GB scale factor.
The TPC-D benchmark, which simulates a complex DSS workload with
17 queries and two update streams, is measured by three main metrics:
performance (QppD), throughput (QthD) and price/performance ($/QphD).
Additionally, Sequent announced record-breaking I/O numbers based on
database load time and update time. The results for the Sequent system
are as follows:
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Power 7734.4 QppD
Throughput 3055.4 QthD
(a)Price/Performance $740 $/QphD
Availability date March 15, 1999
(a)Database Load Time 7 hours 14 minutes 10 seconds
(a)Update Time 454 seconds
(a) Indicates industry record
Competitive Single-Node Price/Performance Chart
TPC-D 300 GB UNIX $/QphD Qppd QthD Processors
Results on a
single node
Sequent NUMA-Q $740 7,734.4 3,055.4 32
2000
HP 9000 V2250 $1,077 3,710.4 1,440 16
Enterprise
Server
Sun Ultra $1,400 8,113.2 3,343.9 64
Enterprise 10000
Competitive Single-Node Price/Performance Chart
TPC-D 300 GB UNIX Database System
Results on a Availability
single node
Sequent NUMA-Q INFORMIX IDS AD/XP 8.21.UD2 3/15/99
2000
HP 9000 V2250 Oracle Oracle8 v8.0.6 4/12/99
Enterprise
Server
Sun Ultra INFORMIX IDS AD/XP 8.21 6/15/98
Enterprise 10000
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Product Overview
Sequent's second-generation NUMA-Q 2000 servers are scalable to
64 Pentium II Xeon processors and feature an industry leading fibre
channel subsystem and dynamic partitioning capabilities. Sequent's
NUMA-Q architecture offers customers unequaled flexibility in building
infrastructure for large-scale e-commerce, customer relationship
management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP) and decision
support applications. NUMA-Q provides massive scalability required to
address growth in concurrent users and raw data.
Sequent is helping customers leverage this architectural
flexibility to embrace new data center standards like Microsoft
Windows NT and Intel's up-coming IA-64(TM), while utilizing proven
technologies where they are required to ensure service levels. NUMA-Q
is the engine underlying Sequent's UNIX and Windows NT mixed-mode
NUMACenter(TM) environment.
Informix Dynamic Server is the only completely integrated, fully
optimized, parallel-everywhere database server designed to help
transform a company's information resources into a powerful force for
business innovation. With its combination of breakthroughperformance
and unmatched scalability with infinite, user-defined extensibility,
Informix Dynamic Server is the only enterprise-class, easily
customizable database architecture that meets the needs of companies
seeking a single database engine that features reliability, high
performance, scalability, and the ability to manage all kinds of data.
From multimedia audio and video data, to spatial data, to traditional
alphanumeric data, Informix Dynamic Server has the sophistication and
power to manage every kind of information generated and utilized by
today's successful businesses.
The CLARiiON FC5000 Fibre Channel JBOD is a powerful, flexible,
highly scalable storage solution for today's enterprise applications.
Featuring modular building blocks and parallel deployment, plus
advanced Fibre Channel technology, users gain a flexible storage
solution that meets immediate needs and is easily adaptable to
unpredictable future requirements. This high availability disk
subsystem is designed to be completely redundant, hot-pluggable, and
hot-repairable. The subsystem is easily upgradeable to RAID providing
investment protection, and supports up to ten dual-ported disk drives
in a compact 3.5 U enclosure, and industry-standard environmental
monitoring.
About CLARiiON
With more than 70,000 disk arrays and over 4 petabytes (4,000
terabytes) of usable RAID-protected storage shipped, the CLARiiON
Advanced Storage Division of Data General Corporation is the leading
supplier of advanced storage solutions to major computer system
manufacturers, value-added storage resellers, and system integrators
around the world. CLARiiON high-availability solutions are based on
its Multidimensional Storage Architecture(TM) and feature a full range
of flexible, scalable products for UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT
platforms, including SCSI arrays, end-to-end Fibre Channel arrays, and
enterprise storage management software. For more information about
CLARiiON and its enterprise storagesolutions, call 1-800-67-ARRAY,
e-mail info@clariion.com, or visit the Web site at www.clariion.com.
About Informix
Informix Corporation, based in Menlo Park, California, provides
innovative database products that assist the world's major
corporations attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely
recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing
environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel
processing applications. Informix's database server, application
development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships
enable the company to be at the forefront of major information
technology solution areas including data warehousing, high performance
OLTP, and Web/E-Commerce. For more information, contact the sales
office nearest you or visit their Web site at informix.com.
About Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Sequent Computer Systems (Nasdaq:SQNT.O), the leader in Intel-based
solutions for the data center, is committed to the success of its
end-user and system integrator customers. Sequent's platform
architectures and services are optimized for the scalability,
availability and manageability requirements of corporate and
institutional data center environments leveraging industry-standard
technologies and best-in-class partnerships.
Sequent supports more than 10,000 installations worldwide,
including many of the world's largest and most sophisticated OLTP, DSS
and RDBMS applications.
For further information, phone Sequent at (503) 626-5700 or (800)
257-9044, or visit their Web site at www.sequent.com.
Note to Editors: Sequent is a registered trademark and NUMA-Q and
NUMACenter are trademarks of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. CLARiiON
is a registered trademark of Data General Corporation. All brand and
product names appearing in this release are registered trademarks or
trademarks of their respective holders.
The following are trademarks of Informix Corporation or its
affiliates:Informix(R), Informix Dynamic Server(TM), Advanced
Decision Support Option(TM), Extended Parallel Option(TM) and the
Informix logo which is registered with the United States Patent and
Trademark Office.
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CONTACT: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Mike Fay, 212/317-5710
mikefay@sequent.com
Chris McManus, 415/778-5225
chrismcm@sequent.com
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