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BANGALORE: Network Appliance, Inc. said that it acheived a record-high TPC-C Benchmark performance result for an Intel Xeon processor–based server.
NetApp and IBM conducted the TPC-C Benchmark on an IBM eServer xSeries 460 server configured as a client/server system with NetApp fabric-attached storage (FAS) systems.
According to a press release, the record-making result demonstrates the robust scalability of NetApp storage for enterprise online transaction processing (OLTP) workloads, especially in storage area network (SAN) environments.
The benchmark achieved 492,307 tpmC, with a price/performance of $6.37 USD/tpmC, using NetApp storage systems and an IBM xSeries 460, using the new Dual-Core Intel Xeon Processor 7040 3.00GHz with 2MB L2 cache per core (16 processors/32 cores/64 threads) and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition. The benchmark raises the bar for 16 processor and Xeon processor-based performance on the TPC-C online transaction processing benchmark, stated the release.
“The performance benchmark of over 492,307 transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark is the current high watermark in the string of number one scores for IBM's Enterprise X-Architecture servers," said Leo Suarez, vice president, IBM xSeries servers," said Don Petersen, senior product manager for SQL Server at Microsoft Corp.
“The biggest take away is that NetApp, IBM and Microsoft are documenting that this type of performance is possible, and that demonstrates these solutions are bringing enterprise-class performance to SQL Server 2005 environments.”
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