Compaq ProLiant 5500 Achieves Best Overall TPC-C Price/Performance.HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 1998--Shortly after achieving unprecedented performance for processing the SAP Standard Sales and Distribution Benchmark, Compaq Computer Corporation (company) Compaq Computer Corporation - The largest US manufacturer and vendor of IBM PC compatible personal computers and servers. Compaq was started in 1982 by three ex-Texas Instruments employees. Quarterly sales $2499M, profits $210M (Aug 1994). http://compaq.com/. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CPQ CPQ Compaq CPQ Conseil du Patronat du Québec (Canada) CPQ Configure-Price-Quote CPQ Conseil de Presse du Québec (Québec Press Council, Canada) CPQ Companion Parrot Quarterly ) announced that its powerful ProLiant 5500 server set a new TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. price/performance benchmark record by posting 11,748 transactions per minute (tpmC) at just $26.61/tpmC. This result marks the best overall TPC-C price|performance on any server platform - clearly demonstrating the value of the Compaq ProLiant 5500 server. Compaq also holds the single and dual processor performance records with the ProLiant 5500 and ProLiant 3000, respectively. This data clearly shows the performance advantage delivered by the Compaq ProLiant 5500 server, the only enterprise server in the industry that includes Highly Parallel System Architecture - a new standards-based design that boosts system performance by doubling memory and PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output bandwidth. For more details on this Compaq ProLiant 5500 benchmark, please visit Compaq's Web site at: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/benchmarks. Company Background: Founded in 1982, Compaq Computer Corporation, a Fortune 100 company, is a global information technology company. Compaq is the fifth largest computer company in the world and the largest global supplier of personal computers. For more corporate information, see: http://www.compaq.com. -0- Compaq, Registered U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Compaq Computer Corporation Arch Currid, 281-514-0484 arch.currid@compaq.com |
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