HP Leads Market in Business-Intelligence Performance With Industry-First TPC-H Results.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)--Oct. 25, 1999-- HP Delivers First 300GB and Best 100GB TPC-H TPC-H Transaction Processing Council Ad-hoc/decision support benchmark (computer performance) Benchmarks with its High-performing HP 9000 Enterprise Servers Hewlett-Packard Company today announced two industry-leading results on the new TPC-H benchmark, a decision-support benchmark that measures ad hoc query A non-standard inquiry. An ad hoc query is created to obtain information as the need arises. Contrast with a query that is predefined and routinely performed. See query and ad hoc. performance. HP posted the industry's first 300GB TPC-H benchmark and the best 100GB TPC-H to date on its HP 9000 Enterprise Servers, staking its claim for leadership in both categories to confirm HP's commitment to providing the highest-performing solutions for business intelligence. "As a major update to the widely reported TPC-D A benchmark that measures decision support performance. See TPC. , the new TPC-H benchmark offers a carefully crafted test of ad hoc query performance," said Richard Partridge Richard Partridge FRS, FRCS (19 January 1805; Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire – 25 March 1873; London) was a British surgeon. Although he became President of both the Royal College of Surgeons and the Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society, he is best known for his part in , vice president, open systems parallel hardware, D. H. Brown Associates. "Representing a typical environment where queries are not known ahead of time, TPC-H measurements aid customers in gauging capabilities of the latest decision-support systems. HP's leadership TPC-H results re-affirm the impressive performance of its N- and V-Class servers, and sets the bar for others to challenge." The results achieved on HP's V-Class and N-Class servers show HP's full-line superiority and performance, and positions HP 9000 Enterprise Servers as the platform of choice for all ranges of business-intelligence environments. QphH (queries per hour) is the performance metric used in the TPC-H benchmark, which evaluates the performance of various business-intelligence systems to provide answers to real-world business situations. Customers need powerful systems to get fast answers to ad hoc queries in analytical or customer-relationship-management applications. This benchmark explicitly represents this needed functionality, because users often cannot know in advance which queries will be executed against a particular database. In delivering the industry's first TPC-H 300GB benchmark, HP continues to raise the bar in demonstrating real results for its end-to-end data-warehousing and business-intelligence solutions. HP's V2500 Enterprise Server with 32GB of RAM, coupled with the Informix Dynamic Server Advanced Decision Support 8.3, generated a query-per-hour rating of 3,714 QphH@300GB at a price/performance of $1,119/QphH@300GB. These results were generated with a database with 300GB of raw data, which is more than 2TB in total size, including mirroring. This is consistent with many leading customers' needs. This performance and price/performance combination means that customers can achieve outstanding performance at a competitive price with their largest business-intelligence solutions. "Quantum's management team likes the reliability and performance characteristics of HP 9000 Enterprise Servers," said Paul Roman, chief information officer and vice president of Worldwide Information Services See Information Systems. , Quantum Corporation. "Our long-term alliance with HP, for platform technology as well as for consulting services, helped Quantum lay a strong systems foundation, which enabled us to go into the design phase of our data warehouse with increased confidence. We knew that HP systems would function powerfully and reliably, so we were free to focus on design functionality." Building on its record-breaking performance reputation, the HP 9000 N-Class Enterprise Server achieved the highest TPC-H performance in the 100GB category. The results, which outperformed the first TPC-H result published by Sun, were achieved on HP's N-Class N4000 eight-way server See 8-way. with 16GB RAM running Informix Dynamic Server with Advanced Decision Support version 8.3. This solution delivered a query-per-hour rating of 1,481 QphH@100GB at a price/performance of $872/QphH@100GB. The HP and Informix 300GB solution provides 16 percent better performance over the competition, which required 50 percent more CPUs.(1) Furthermore, HP's benchmarks demonstrate a higher level of redundancy, as all data is fully replicated, unlike other vendors' benchmarks. For the customer, this means that any single disk failure will not result in interrupted service. Availability The 100GB and 300GB HP and Informix benchmarked configurations are expected to be available Dec. 17. About TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance 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. 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-H benchmark was recently adopted by the Transaction Processing Performance Council to replace the former TPC-D benchmark, with a workload that better measures ad-hoc decision support performance. About HP Hewlett-Packard Company -- a leading global provider of computing and imaging solutions and services for business and home -- is focused on capitalizing on the opportunities of the Internet and the proliferation proliferation /pro·lif·er·a·tion/ (pro-lif?er-a´shun) the reproduction or multiplication of similar forms, especially of cells.prolif´erativeprolif´erous pro·lif·er·a·tion n. of electronic services. HP plans to launch Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. as an independent company by mid-calendar 2000. Agilent consists of HP's test and measurement, semiconductor products, chemical analysis and healthcare solutions businesses, and has leading positions in multiple market segments. HP has 123,500 employees worldwide and had total 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) A Sun Enterprise 4500 generated 1,280 QphH@100GB and $816/QphH@100GB with an availability date The date after notification of mobilization by which forces will be marshalled at their home station or mobilization station and available for deployment. See also home station; mobilization; mobilization station. of Nov. 15. |
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