Between this and their alliance with IBM and INTC (UNIX for Intel Proc) shouldn't we see some upward movement on SQNT? What are your thoughts?
Sequent and Oracle Take Commanding Lead in OLTP Performance with Record Breaking TPC-C Benchmark Results for a Single System
November 10, 1998 1:01 PM EST
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 9, 1998--
Second-generation NUMA-Q 2000 demonstrates linear scalability;
outperforms nearest competitor by nearly 40 percent
Demonstrating the performance leadership and linear scalability of its new NUMA-Q 2000 servers, Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. and Oracle Corporation today announced record breaking TPC-C (Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark C) online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark results for a single system.
Sequent's second-generation NUMA-Q 2000 data center server achieved 86,252.81 transactions per minute (tpmC) running Oracle8 - a gain of nearly 40 percent over the previous TPC-C leader for a single system. The benchmark was conducted in Sequent's mixed-mode NUMACenter environment with Windows NT on the application tier and UNIX database servers.
"This TPC-C benchmark result clearly establishes Sequent and Oracle as the industry leaders in performance for demanding, large-scale OLTP environments," said Jeff Pancottine, vice president of global marketing for Sequent. "Following up on our earlier TPC-C results from last month, we have shown record performance and linear scalability - two critical factors for customers with high transaction environments. We are committed to being the performance leader with Oracle, as we drive next generation computing applications with Oracle8i."
"Sequent has proven once again that it can deliver industry-leading performance and scalability in a single system with Oracle - outperforming even most clustered systems. The Sequent and Oracle partnership continues to deliver leading solutions for the data center," said Kevin Walsh, Vice President of Intel Technologies Division for Oracle Corporation.
"Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 servers take full advantage of Intel's Pentium II Xeon processors to bring the Intel Architecture up into the data center," said Tom Macdonald, marketing director, Intel's Enterprise Server Group. "With these latest benchmark results, Sequent continues to demonstrate the significant performance gains of Intel's Pentium II Xeon processors and Sequent's NUMA-Q 2000 data center servers."
The Benchmark System
The benchmarks were run on Sequent's second-generation NUMA-Q 2000 server in a NUMACenter configuration, running a mix of UNIX and Windows NT. The system featured 64 Intel Pentium II Xeon processors, 64 GB memory and 64 fibre channel host adapters. The benchmark system ran Oracle8 database software. The system tested will be available on March 15, 1999.
The TPC-C benchmark, which simulates a rigorous OLTP environment, measures transaction processing performance and price/performance for large commercial workloads. The benchmark tests all aspects of system, processor, memory, disk I/O and user input/output and is measured by two metrics - transactions per minute (tpmC) and price/performance ($/tmpC).
Competitive Performance Chart
TPC-C for tpmC $/tpmC Database System
Single System Availability
Sequent NUMA-Q
2000 (64 proc) 86,252.81 170.60 Oracle8 Enterprise March 15, 1999
(64 proc) Edition 8.0.4
Sun Enterprise
6500 53,049.97 76.00 Sybase ASE 11.9.3 Jan. 31, 1999
HP 9000 V2250 52,117.80 81.17 Sybase ASE 11.5 Aug. 13, 1998
Sequent NUMA-Q 48,793.40 127.53 Oracle8 Enterprise March 15, 1999
2000 (32 proc) Edition 8.0.4
IBM AS/400e
Server
Model S40 2208 43,169.85 128.91 DB2 for AS/400 V4R3 Sept. 11,1998
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Product Overview
Sequent's second-generation NUMA-Q 2000 servers are scaleable 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, 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 environment.
Oracle8 is the world's leading database for Internet computing. Oracle8 extends Oracle's proven technology leadership in the areas of transaction processing, data warehousing and high availability to handle all requirements of today's Internet users.
About Sequent Computer Systems, Inc.
Sequent Computer Systems (Nasdaq:SQNT), the leader in Intel-based systems 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 was the world's fastest-growing server vendor with systems priced between $100K and $1M in 1997 on the strength of NUMA-Q 2000, and has been the number one vendor of high-end UNIX servers in the UK for the past seven years, according to IDC. Sequent supports more than 10,000 installations worldwide, including many of the world's largest and most sophisticated OLTP, DSS and RDBMS applications.
Trademarks
Sequent is a registered trademark and NUMA-Q and NUMACenter are trademarks of Sequent Computer Systems, Inc. All brand and product names appearing in this release are registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective holders.
Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8, Oracle8i and Oracle7 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corp.
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