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Sun first to break 2000 mark on TPC-D benchmark; Ultra Enterprise 10000
Server outperforms all other players -- again; Sun and Oracle combination
delivers best solution for enterprise class data warehousing and decision
support
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Date: Friday, March 28, 1997
Source: Business Wire
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- Less than two
months after posting record performance, Sun Microsystems Inc. reinforced
its industry leadership today, being the first server vendor to surpass
2000 on the power metric for TPC-D 300 GB (SF300) benchmark on the Ultra
Enterprise 10000 server.
Also known as Starfire, the Ultra Enterprise 10000 server, with the Solaris
operating environment running Oracle Universal Server, bettered its current
industry leading record for the same benchmark -- posting a 34 percent
higher result than any competitive offering, with up to four times better
price/performance. These results demonstrate the scalability and power of
the Starfire system to deliver leading performance for the most demanding
decision support and data warehousing applications.
TPC-D benchmarks are performed to demonstrate data warehousing and decision
support capabilities offering customers a reasonable way to evaluate
systems under well-known processing loads.
The Ultra Enterprise 10000 system performance translates into the premiere
platform for enterprise-class data warehousing. The Ultra Enterprise 10000
server offers superior reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS)
features in addition to industry-leading performance and price/performance.
The Starfire system offers customers a production-ready platform for
implementing large data warehouses in the high-end data center to enable
increased revenue sources, faster time to market and increased market share
by allowing for better informed and more timely business decisions
regarding new products, services and programs.
"This benchmark shows the Oracle Universal Server and Starfire combination
provides customers with industry-leading scalability, capacity and
performance needed to support the largest data warehouses," said Gary
Bloom, senior vice president of Worldwide Alliances and Technologies,
Oracle Corporation. "The Oracle and Sun Ultra Enterprise 10000 server
combination allows customers to utilize the full power of Oracle
solutions."
Conducted at Sun's Large Scale Computing Center in Beaverton, Ore., the
benchmark delivered 2009.5 QppD@300GB and throughput of 1242 QthD@300GB
with a price/performance record of $3,312 QphD@300GB. The Ultra Enterprise
10000 server was configured with 64 Ultra SPARC CPUs, running Oracle
Universal Server version 7.3.3 on the Solaris operating environment, with
16 GBs (gigabytes) of memory and 1.8 TBs (terabytes) of storage.
"We redefined SMP scalability in January with the introduction of Starfire
and leading results for this benchmark, proving our large scale SMP
architecture delivers superior performance and price/performance over our
competitors," said Clark Masters, vice president and general manager of Sun
Microsystems Computer Company's Business Systems division.
"Our results reaffirm why customers no longer need to resort to complex,
costly or unproven architectures."
Sun's results are 34 percent higher and one third the total system cost
compared with NCR, the nearest competitive system. NCR posted a TPC-D power
metric of 1501.1 QppD@300GB -- which required an MPP system with 160 CPUs
with a five-year total system cost of $16,821,210 compared to the Ultra
Enterprise 10000 server's five-year lifetime price of $5,232,124.
"We completed this benchmark in record time, demonstrating it is easier to
deliver industry-leading performance with our large scale SMP systems than
competing architectures. In particular, the systems ease-of-use and the
constant low-latency provided by the Gigaplane-XB interconnect proves a
significant advantage for queries that typically cause problems for MPP and
NUMA architectures," said Brad Carlile, manager of strategic applications
engineering at Sun Microsystems Computer Company's Business Systems.
"These advantages will benefit our customers who have rapid
pilot-to-production requirements."
To gain perspective on the amount of data in the 300 GB benchmark -- a 300
GB line of text would extend from the Earth to the Moon and back. To read
the data as fast as one Starfire server would require a reading rate of 4.2
Million miles per hour.
The industry standard TPC-D benchmark was created by the Transaction
Processing Council and is used to measure performance for decision support
and data warehousing applications. This test demonstrates overall system
and application performance which includes 17 typical queries and database
update operations critical to data warehousing users.
TPC-D 300GB Performance Chart
System Power System Cost CPUs P/P Throughput Avail.
(QppD) (QphD) (QthD)
Sun Ultra
Enterprise
10000 (SMP) 2009.5 $5,232,124 64 $3,312 1241.9 8/97
Sun Ultra
Enterprise
SMP 10000
Previous
Result 1787.9 $5,045,645 64 $3,562 1122.3 5/97
NCR 5100M
(MPP) 1501.1 $16,821,210 160 $13,539 1028.3 11/96
IBM RS/6000
SP (MPP) 1360.5 $13,364,002 128 $11,969 916.3 3/96
Pyramid
RM1000
(MPP) 1169.2 $12,850,321 96 $13,728 749.3 2/97
Sun Ultra
Enterprise
6000 (SMP) 1006.0 $2,651,291 24 $3,447 588.0 5/97
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 hardware, software and services for
establishing enterprise-wide intranets and expanding the power of the
Internet. With more than $7 billion in annual revenues, Sun can be found in
more than 150 countries and on the WorldWide Web at http://www.sun.com .
NOTE TO EDITORS: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Ultra, Ultra
Enterprise, Solaris, Starfire, Gigaplane-XB and The Network is the Computer
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems Inc. in the
United States and other countries. All SPARC trademarks are used under
license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International
Inc. in the United States and other countries.
Products bearing SPARC trademarks are based upon an architecture developed
by Sun Microsystems Inc. TPC-D results listed in the chart above were taken
from the Transaction Processing Council web site. All other products or
company names mentioned are used for identification purposes only, and may
be trademarks of their respective companies.
Press announcements and other information about Sun Microsystems are
available on the Internet via the World Wide Web using a tool such as
Netscape or NCSA Mosaic. Type http://www.sun.com at the URL prompt.
CONTACT: Sun Microsystems Computer Company | Lisa Ganier, 415/786-8088 |
[email protected] | Cydney Ewald, 503/520-7630 |
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