HP, Along With Oracle, Redefines High-end Data-warehouse Landscape With Record-setting Price/Performance and Query Processing Power.PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 2, 1999-- HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server Outperforms All Competitors in 300GB TPC-D A benchmark that measures decision support performance. See TPC. Hewlett-Packard Company today announced world-record power, throughput and price/performance results for the 300GB TPC-D benchmark with its latest-generation HP 9000 high-end server and the industry-leading Oracle(R) database. Today's outstanding results demonstrate the sheer computing computing - computer power and scalability of HP's new HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server when running data-warehousing and business-intelligence solutions. The TPC-D result achieved on the V2500, featuring 32 high-performance 64-bit CPUs running an Oracle8i(TM) database, beat all existing 300GB benchmarks in all categories including best performance, throughput and price/performance. Compared with the closest competitor, the HP system delivered four times the processing power with a power metric of 56,243.7 QppD@300GB. HP's throughput metric of 7,540 QthD@300GB and exceptional price/performance of $204/QphD@300GB, also led all competitors by a wide margin. The HP and Oracle combination delivered four times the performance over systems from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , NCR (NCR Corporation, Dayton, OH, www.ncr.com) A technology company specializing in financial terminal transactions, retail systems and data warehousing. Until the late 1990s, NCR was heavily invested in the hardware side of the industry, known worldwide as a major manufacturer of computers and Sun with up to 104 CPUs. HP's new scalable computing architecture (SCA (Single Connector Attachment) An 80-pin plug and socket used to connect peripherals. With a SCSI drive, it rolls three cables (power, data channel and ID configuration) into one connector for fast installation and removal. ) scales up to 128 CPUs with peak performance at all levels. "These results are proof of the extreme power and performance of the V2500," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "For our customers, this means they can tackle some of their burning platform issues, such as growing their businesses and maintaining and growing customer loyalty." "The combination of HP's V2500 with Oracle's 8i database provides our customers with all the power and performance they need to implement high-end data warehouses," said, Dan Poirier, vice president, HP Product Division, Oracle Corporation. "With the full power of the V2500, we are anticipating unparalleled levels of performance and scalability for data-warehousing and business-intelligence solutions." The following table shows a comparison of the best TPC-D results from HP and other vendors. A complete listing of results is posted on 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. Web site at http://www.tpc.org. -0-
300GB TPC-D Benchmark Results
System QppD QthD $/QthD
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HP 9000 V2500 56,243.7 7,540.0 $204
NCR WorldMark 5150 12,588.3 4,619.5 1,609
IBM RS/6000 SP550 10,469.6 6,166.5 721
SUN UE10000 8,113.2 3,343.9 1,401
System QNo. of Database Availability
CPUs
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HP 9000 V2500 32 Oracle8i Aug. 1,1999
NCR WorldMark 5150 104 Teradata May 7, 1998
IBM RS/6000 SP550 96 DB2 Oct. 31, 1998
SUN UE10000 64 Informix June 15, 1998
-0- HP V-Class Enterprise Servers The HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server family provides customers with the performance and scalability to tackle demanding data-warehousing, transaction-processing, enterprise resource-planning, and engineering applications. For the industry's most robust high-end server solution, HP combines the V2500 Enterprise Server with HP's industry-proven 64-bit HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. (1) operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. ; 64-bit PA-8500 RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. architecture; and HP's mission-critical product offerings, services and support. Since its introduction in December 1998, HP has sold more than 100 V2500 servers. Additionally, HP's new scalable computing architecture (SCA) represents a breakthrough in HP's high-end technology and HP-UX 11 operating environment. More information on HP's OpenWarehouse business-intelligence solutions can be found at http://www.hp.com/go/datawarehouse. About TPC The Transaction Processing Performance Council is a non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. founded to define 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. and database benchmarks to the industry. The TPC-D benchmark models a decision support environment in which complex business-oriented queries are submitted against a large database. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year. Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. (1) HP-UX Release 10.20 and later and HP-UX Release 11.00 and later (in both 32- and 64-bit configurations) on all HP 9000 computers are Open Group UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). 95 branded products. Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8i is a trademark of Oracle Corporation. |
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