SUN MIDFRAME SERVER AND SUN STOREDGE ARRAYS DELIVER WORLD'S BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE RESULT AT 1000GB SCALE FACTOR ON TPC-H BENCHMARKSUN MIDFRAME SERVER AND SUN STOREDGE ARRAYS DELIVER WORLD'S BEST PRICE/PERFORMANCE RESULT AT 1000GB SCALE FACTOR ON TPC-H BENCHMARK
PALO ALTO, CA -- June 25, 2001 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced the world's best price/performance result at 1000GB on the TPC-H benchmark, an industry standard benchmark representative of real-world tasks performed in large data warehouse environments. Sun's Midframe server and Sun StorEdge arrays delivered 4,735.7 QphH@1000GB at a price performance of $581/QphH@1000GB, with an expected availability date of October 31, 2001. The Sun Fire 6800 Midframe is the only 24-processor system to run the 1000GB TPC-H benchmark. This world record marks the fourth world record set for performance or price/performance on the Sun Fire Midframe systems since their introduction in March 2001. Sun takes the position of price/performance world leader at the 1000GB scale factor with a price performance result of $581/QphH@1000GB on the TPC-H benchmark. QphH@1000GB and $/QphH@1000GB are the two primary metrics for the TPC-H at the 1000GB scale factor. In a performance/CPU comparison, the Sun Fire 6800 Midframe outperforms all of the competition, demonstrating the power of the UltraSPARC III processor and Sun Fire system architecture. The table below compares the Sun Fire 6800 Midframe per-CPU performance and price/performance to the HP 9000 Superdome, NCR WorldMark 5250, and the IBM RS/6000 SP 550:
Following are the TPC-H results currently published for the 1000GB scale factor. The Sun Fire 6800 Midframe is currently available. The complete configuration used in this benchmark will be available later this year.
The benchmark was performed on a 24-processor Sun Fire 6800 Midframe running the Solaris 8 Operating Environment and the IBM DB2 Universal Database Enterprise Edition Extended, Version 7.2. The midframe also utilized 16 A5200 Sun StorEdge disk arrays, each with 22x18.2GB 10K rpm disks. The high density, high-performance fibre-channel arrays were configured split-loop using 16 dual-port and 8 single-port FC Network Adaptors. The combination of the Sun Fire 6800 Midframe and Sun StorEdge disk arrays is also the most efficient solution in terms of total storage requirements, offering huge advantages in a customer's total cost of ownership for enterprise decision support systems. The Sun system demonstrated a 6.0 storage/database size, whereas the next closest competitor required 50 percent more storage capacity. The fibre-channel Sun StorEdge arrays provided fast sequential access to data, while scaling to meet the high capacity requirements for this test. About TPC-HEstablished by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the TPC-H benchmark is an industry-standard Decision Support test designed to measure systems' capability to examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. The TPC-H benchmark evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) and a price/performance metric ($/QphH@size) that measure the performance of various decision support systems by the execution of sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions. TPC-H, QphH and $/QphH are trademarks of the TPC. For additional information on the TPC-H benchmark, please visit the Transaction Processing Performance Council's Web site at http://www.tpc.org. About Sun Fire ServersThe Sun Fire family of systems range from two to 24 CPUs, up to 192 GB memory, and up to four Dynamic System Domains. Sun Fire servers deliver 9.6 GB/s sustained memory bandwidth, and are fully hardware redundant. The foundation of the new Sun Fire systems is breakthrough technology, including the Sun Fireplane interconnect, and a next-generation, balanced system design that delivers mainframe-class functionality at midrange price points. About Sun Microsystems, Inc.Since its inception in 1982, a singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- has propelled Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW), to its position as a leading provider of industrial-strength hardware, software and services that power the Internet and allow companies worldwide to take their businesses to the nth. With $19.2 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com.
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