April 25, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Hewlett-Packard (hp.com) and Microsoft (microsoft.com) yesterday announced the world?s fastest single-system TPC-C (OLTP) benchmark result of 658,277 transactions per second. Verified by an authorized auditor, the TPC-C benchmark is among the most complex online transaction processing benchmarks in the industry.
The findings were based on a collaboration undertaken by HP, Microsoft and Intel to demonstrate the superior performance and scalability for enterprises running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The HP Superdome server, based on the Intel Itanium 2 processor (cod-named Madison) running the 64-bit version of Winodws Server 2003 Datacenter Edition and SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition (64-bit), produced a high-end price to performance ratio of $9.80/tpmC. Based on these results, the companies expect high levels of customer value on return and investment.
According to the test findings, this benchmark result beats all competing platforms’ results, including NEC by almost 30 percent, and significantly outperforms systems from IBM, Unisys and Fujitsu by more than 40 percent.
“We are extremely pleased with today’s record-breaking benchmark result and believe that it is solid proof that HP has the technology and database solutions expertise to deliver Windows OLTP performance like no other vendor,” said Scott Stallard, senior vice president, HP business critical systems. HP’s Itanium 2-based servers will extend Microsoft Windows further into the data center, enabling massive SQL Server database growth, and driving greater IT efficiencies at a decreased cost – capabilities not available from our competitors.”
Gordon Mangione, corporate vice president for SQL Server, Microsoft echoed these sentiments. “Today’s record-breaking result demonstrates the high performance and low cost HP and Microsoft 64-bit solutions can deliver to customers who are seeking alternatives to expensive database solutions.”
Microsoft?s Windows Server 2003 is a comprehensive, integrated operating platform designed to help customers reduce costs and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of IT operations.
