Bigger is Better: Unisys ES7000 Scores Best Price/Performance of All Top-Performing Servers.Business Editors BLUE BELL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 The Unisys Enterprise Server ES7000 now delivers the lowest price per transaction of any server - clustered or non-clustered -- among top performers ranked by the TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. benchmark. The latest Unisys TPC-C benchmark challenges the rationale for the complexities of stringing together scores of small commodity servers to handle an enterprise's most demanding workloads. It shows that enterprises don't have to sacrifice the advantages of a single, expandable server environment to reap the economic benefits of industry-standard computing. The Unisys ES7000 recorded 234,325.10 transactions per minute at $11.59/tpmC, applying the power of the latest Intel Xeon processor MP with 2 MB of cache and Microsoft's SQL Server An earlier relational DBMS from Sybase and from Microsoft. Sybase introduced SQL Server in 1988 for various Unix versions. In that same year, with help from IBM, Sybase created an OS/2 version that Microsoft licensed and branded as Microsoft SQL Server. 2000 Enterprise Edition database running on the Windows .NET Server 2003 Datacenter Edition operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. . This achievement places the Unisys ES7000 squarely on a par with the raw performance available from the industry's largest, most expensive UNIX/RISC-based technology. It is also the best performance recorded to date by a server using the latest Intel Xeon processor MP. "Scaling up on a single, standards-based ES7000 server offers substantially simpler systems administration, more agile load balancing The fine tuning of a computer system, network or disk subsystem in order to more evenly distribute the data and/or processing across available resources. For example, in clustering, load balancing might distribute the incoming transactions evenly to all servers, or it might redirect them and superior handling of large data structures compared to racks of clustered commodity systems," said Mark Feverston, vice president of Unisys Enterprise Server Marketing. "One Unisys ES7000 does the job of dozens of commodity servers, with greater scalability and more flexibility to reallocate Verb 1. reallocate - allocate, distribute, or apportion anew; "Congressional seats are reapportioned on the basis of census data" reapportion allocate, apportion - distribute according to a plan or set apart for a special purpose; "I am allocating a loaf of resources to adjust for shifts in workload." The test was conducted using the Transaction Processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. Performance Council's "C" methodology for measuring online transaction processing See transaction processing and OLCP. (OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing ) performance. The benchmark is modeled after actual transaction-intensive production environments and features multiple transaction types against a complex database structure typical of real-world, large-scale enterprise applications. "From a performance standpoint, the amount of ground we've covered in a very short period of time is incredible," said Bob Ellsworth, director, Windows Server See Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2003, Windows Home Server, Windows 2000 and Windows NT. Group, Microsoft Corp. "Just two years ago, the TPC-C brass ring for us was half the throughput Unisys is announcing today -- and since then, SQL Server and Windows Server software have consistently contributed to the top price/performance results." This achievement signals further dramatic reduction in the cost and complexity of handling large volumes of complex online transactions that make up the lifeblood of today's online global enterprises. The test configuration is based on a Unisys ES7000 with 32 Intel Xeon processors MP at 2.0 GHz with 2 MB of L3 cache and 64 GB of memory. The configuration includes Microsoft's forthcoming release of Windows .NET Server 2003, Datacenter Edition and Microsoft SQL Server A relational DBMS from Microsoft that is a major component of the Windows Server System. It is Microsoft's high-end client/server database and is closely integrated with Microsoft Visual Studio and the Microsoft Office System. 2000 Enterprise Edition database. The complete configuration will be available March 31, 2003; the ES7000 with Intel Xeon processors MP at 2.0 GHz with 2 MB of L3 cache will be available in the first quarter of 2003. About Unisys Unisys is a worldwide information technology services and solutions company. Our people combine expertise in systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure, server technology and consulting with precision thinking and relentless execution to help clients, in more than 100 countries, quickly and efficiently achieve competitive advantage. For more information, visit www.unisys.com RELEASE NO.: 1202/8212 http://www.unisys.com/about__unisys/news_a_events/12098212.htm Unisys is a registered trademark of Unisys Corporation. Intel is a registered trademark, and Xeon is a trademark, of Intel Corporation. TPC-C is a registered trademark of the Transaction Processing Performance Council Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is a non-profit organization founded in 1985 to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry. , www.tpc.org. All other brands and products referenced herein are acknowledged to be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. |
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