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 Server Delivers Best Price Performance - 26% Better Than Intel-based Systems
SANTA CLARA, CA -- June 26, 2002 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced another record-breaking benchmark in a series of announcements that further validates its performance and price/performance superiority on the TPC-H benchmark. Performance tests of Oracle9i Database Release 2 running on the Sun Fire 15K server, Sun StorEdge arrays and the Sun ONE platform have established Sun as the fastest performing and best price/performance system on the market. This industry standard benchmark was devised in 1999 to represent ad-hoc queries and is representative of the real-world decision support and data warehousing applications. IBM has yet to run a TPC-H benchmark on its mainframe or IBM p690 server. The benchmark was performed on a 72-processor 1050 MHz Sun Fire 15K system with 288GB of memory, running the industry-leading Solaris 9 Operating Environment (OE) and Oracle9i Database, topping the performance of the 128 CPU HP and NCR systems. The server also utilized 18 Sun StorEdge A5200 disk arrays. The system delivered 23,813.7 QphH@3000GB at a price performance of $215/QphH@3000GB, with a scheduled availability of October 30, 2002. The versatile 72-way Sun Fire 15K server with 1050 MHz CPUs is rated by Sun at 6,400 Mainframe Equivalent MIPS, which surpasses the fastest IBM mainframe, while maintaining a lower price. Following are TPC-H performance and price/performance results currently published for the 3000GB scale factor.
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 make the Net work. Sun can be found in more than 170 countries and on the World Wide Web at http://sun.com
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