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The Sun Fire X4500 server, world's first Data Server with powerful AMD Opteron processors, delivers remarkable performance of a four-way x64 server and the highest storage density available - with up to 24 TB in 4U of rack space. It is ideally suited for HPC/Grid, Business Intelligence, Digital Media Streaming, and Digital Video Surveillance.
The symbiosis of state-of-the-art server and storage technologies allows for remarkable compute and data throughput performance with the highest storage density available up to 24 TB in 4U of rack space, thus making the Sun Fire X4500 server an ideal candidate for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) chores.
The non-industry-specific TPC-H benchmark was established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to allow customers to evaluate the performance of various BIDW/DSS systems in conjunction with a standard database size, referred to as the scale factor (SF). The benchmark measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system at scale factors including 100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB, 10000GB and 30000GB, and reports the composite TPC-H Query-per-Hour (QphH) performance metric, as well as the price/performance, which is the ratio of total cost of solution, consisting of hardware, software and three-year maintenance costs to the QphH.
Available on 10/15/2007, the Sun Fire X4500 server posted the score of 5604.9 QphH@1000GB and achieved the best price/performance among all TPC-H@1000GB submissions - US$8.11/QphH@1000GB. Powered by a pair of dual-core AMD Opteron processors and running the industry-leading Solaris 10 Operating System, the new benchmark result has the lowest priced configuration, as well as the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO), of any TPC-H submissions at 1000GB. Moreover, Sun's unique "warehouse in a box" solution only takes up 4 rack units and is the only 2-socket submission at 1000GB scale factor.
When compared to the prior best result - the HP DL585G2-based solution (14772.9 QphH@1000GB, US$9.73/QphH@1000GB, available 04/25/07), Sun's offering:
- has 16% better price/performance
- provides real-world data protection with fully mirrored storage
Sun is offering an innovative approach to the scalable data warehousing by packaging multiple Sun Fire X4500 storage servers into a robust cluster that is ideally suited for Business Intelligence/Data Warehousing (BIDW) and Decision Support Systems (DSS) tasks.
Ten Sun Fire X4500 servers, ganged up into a cluster that takes up only one standard 42RU rack , were running the Solaris 10 OS and IBM DB2 9.1 database software, and achieved a new TPC-H Price/Performance World Record of US$29.39/QphH@3000GB, with the score of 38,672.4 QphH@3000GB. Available on 10/12/2007, the 10-node cluster highlights the Sun Fire X4500 server's capabilities as a database machine with the reported data throughput performance of 1.5 GB/sec per node, for a mind-boggling total of 15 GB/sec.
The non-industry-specific TPC-H benchmark was established by the Transaction Processing Council (TPC) to allow customers to evaluate the performance of various BIDW/DSS systems in conjunction with a standard database size, referred to as the scale factor (SF). The benchmark measures the combined performance of a particular database manager on a specific computer system at scale factors including 100GB, 300GB, 1000GB, 3000GB, 10000GB and 30000GB, and reports the composite TPC-H Query-per-Hour (QphH) performance metric, as well as the price/performance, which is the ratio of total cost of solution, consisting of hardware, software and three-year maintenance costs to the QphH.
When compared to other clustered results, such as HP BladeSystem ProLiant BL25p blade-based solution (110,576.5 QphH@3000GB, US$37.80/QphH@3000GB, available 06/08/06), Sun's offering
has 29% better price/performance.
Based on real world user applications, the SPEC CPU2000 suite measures the integer and floating point performance of the processor, memory and compiler on the tested system, effectively providing a comparative measure of compute intensive performance across the widest range of hardware. On the floating point throughput component of this benchmark, the Sun Fire X4500 server demonstrates SPECfp_rate2000 score of 103, which is the new 2-socket x86 world record.
The Sun Fire X4500 server integrates the state of the art server and storage technologies by combining a four way x64 server with up to 24 TB of storage in compact 4U of rack space. This world record confirms the no trade-offs nature of this breakthrough design that delivers remarkable performance and underscores the architectural advantages of AMD's Direct Connect Architecture. The result characterizes the computing abilities of the Sun Fire X4500 server that utilizes the advanced features of the Solaris 10 Operating System, such as Solaris ZFS (zettabyte file system), and allows for comparisons with competing solutions that are based on Microsoft Windows Storage Server 2003 software, such as HP ProLiant DL380 and IBM xSeries 346 servers.
The Sun Fire X4500 server beats the SPECfp_rate2000 results of 80.4 and 33.3, posted by aforementioned HP and IBM servers, by 28% and 209%
percent respectively.
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