SUN FIRE 15K SYSTEM RUNNING ORACLE9i DELIVERS WORLD'S FASTEST TPC DATA WAREHOUSE RESULT ON TPC-H BENCHMARKSUN FIRE 15K SYSTEM RUNNING ORACLE9i DELIVERS WORLD'S FASTEST TPC DATA WAREHOUSE RESULT ON TPC-H BENCHMARKSun's Flagship Server Delivers Best Price Performance - Twice the Performance for Every Dollar
SANTA CLARA, CA -- January 17, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced another performance benchmark in a series of such announcements that provides further evidence of its performance and price/performance superiority as well as the most cost-effective solution on a TPC-H benchmark. Preliminary tests on the Sun Fire 15K server, Sun StorEdge arrays, Sun ONE, and Oracle9i have established Sun as the fastest performing and best price/performance system on the market. The mainframe class Sun Fire 15K server has conquered a benchmark that IBM mainframes have failed to run so far. This industry standard benchmark was devised in 1999 to represent ad-hoc queries. Because it is less than three years old and is focused on ad-hoc queries, this benchmark is still representative of the real-world decision support and data warehousing applications. The benchmark was performed on a 72-processor 900 MHz Sun Fire 15K system with 288GB of memory, running the industry-leading Solaris 8 Operating Environment (OE) and Oracle9i Database, topping the performance of the 128 CPU NCR system. The server also utilized 17 Sun StorEdge A5200 disk arrays. The system delivered 18,802.1 QphH@ 1000GB at a price performance of $287/QphH@1000GB, with a scheduled availability of July 17, 2002. The versatile 72-way Sun Fire 15K server with 900MHz CPUs is rated by Sun at 6,400 Mainframe Equivalent MIPS, far more than the fastest IBM mainframe, and far lower in price. IBM has not run a TPC-H benchmark on its mainframe or IBM p690, which would allow a more detailed comparison. Following are TPC-H performance and price/performance results currently published for the 1000GB scale factor. The Sun Fire 15K server is currently shipping.
About TPC-HEstablished by the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC), the TPC-H benchmark is an industry-standard Decision Support test designed to measure systems' capability to examine large volumes of data, execute queries with a high degree of complexity, and give answers to critical business questions. The TPC-H benchmark evaluates a composite performance metric (QphH@size) and a price/performance metric ($/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 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. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com
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