HP Leads PC Server Industry with SPECweb96 Performance Benchmarks; HP NetServer Systems Offer Customers Internet Server Solutions with Performance Levels Exceeding Leading UNIX System Internet Solutions.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)--Nov. 13, 1996-- Hewlett-Packard Company today announced that it has submitted the industry's first SPECweb96 benchmark results for Pentium(R) Pro-processor-based, Microsoft(R) Windows(R) NT servers. High performance results demonstrate that HP NetServer systems offer customers a choice of NT and 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). (R) system Internet servers, with Internet PC See network computer and Internet appliance. servers whose performance matches or exceeds many UNIX systems on the market today. "HP is committed to being the leader in the computer industry for systems based on both Intel/Microsoft technologies and RISC/UNIX system technologies," said Duncan Campbell Duncan Campbell may refer to several people:
In these benchmarks, an HP NetServer LX Pro server and a NetServer LH Pro server -- each with one 200MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. Pentium Pro The sixth generation of the Intel x86 family of CPU chips. The term may refer to the chip or to a PC that uses it. Introduced in 1995 as the successor to the Pentium, models from 150 MHz to 200 MHz were released. processor running Microsoft's Internet Information Server See IIS. (World-Wide Web) Internet Information Server - (IIS) Microsoft's web server and FTP server for Windows NT. IIS is intended to meet the needs of a range of users: from workgroups and departments on a corporate intranet to ISPs hosting websites that receive 2.0 and Windows NT (Windows New Technology) A 32-bit operating system from Microsoft for Intel x86 CPUs. NT is the core technology in Windows 2000 and Windows XP (see Windows). Available in separate client and server versions, it includes built-in networking and preemptive multitasking. 4.0 -- achieved 839 and 536 SPECweb96 operations per second, respectively. "We are very excited about the high raw performance of Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. NT Server and Internet Information Server running on HP NetServer systems," said Jim Allchin, senior vice president, Microsoft Desktop and Business Systems Division. "The combination of an HP NetServer system with Windows NT Server and Internet Information Server provides customers with an integrated Web server platform with superior price/performance that makes it easier to develop and run applications on the Internet and intranets." "Businesses need an affordable Internet server solution that has the performance to handle the high traffic peaks they expect to experience on their Web sites," said John McNulty, director, Enterprise Programs, Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . "HP's NetServer systems, based on Intel Pentium Pro processors, will deliver an Internet server solution that addresses these high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. needs, as demonstrated by these great SPECweb results." The following table shows SPECweb96 performance numbers that compare the results of HP NetServer LH Pro and NetServer LX Pro systems to closely configured UNIX systems: -0-
SPECweb96 No. RAM
System Name ops/sec CPU (MB) HTTP Server
DEC Alpha server 252 1 128 Netscape Commerce
1000A 4/266 Server 1.12
Sun Netra i 1-170 310 1 512 Netscape Enterprise
Server 2.0d
IBM RS/6000 43P-140 459 1 448 Zeus 1.1.3
HP NetServer 6/200 536 1 512 IIS 2.0/NT 4.0
LH Pro
HP 9000 Model K460 801 1 2048 Zeus 1.1.0
HP NetServer 6/200 839 1 2048 IIS 2.0/NT 4.0
LX Pro
-0- "The brains behind our Investors Edge site is an HP NetServer system," said Patrick Connolly Patrick Connolly is a former Attorney General of Ireland who was appointed by Charles Haughey. He resigned after a man, Malcolm McArthur, later convicted of murder was found to have been his house guest part of a sequence of events that became known as GUBU. , president, Ethos Corporation. "This HP NetServer provides excellent network throughput and disk redundancy. ... I sleep better at night knowing that the NetServer system is minding the shop." The HP NetServer LX Pro server is a top-of-the-line network server that is optimized to meet the performance and availability needs of the most demanding business-critical applications. It offers impressive expandability and storage capacity, while its high-availability features maximize system uptime. The HP NetServer LH Pro server is a best-in-class departmental server designed to operate as cost-effective, optimized high-end file server and midrange application and Web server. Innovative features have been incorporated in the HP NetServer LH Pro server to ensure the highest level of data integrity and uptime. The HP NetServer LH Pro and the HP NetServer LX Pro systems currently start at street prices of approximately $6,900 (U.S.) and $12,200 (U.S.), respectively. SPECweb96, announced in July 1996 by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) is a non-profit organization that aims to produce "fair, impartial and meaningful benchmarks for computers." SPEC was founded in 1988 and their goal is to ensure that the marketplace has a fair and useful set of metrics to (SPEC), is an industry-standard, client/server benchmark used to indicate the maximum number of HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. connections a Web server can support within a reasonable response time. Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 110,800 employees and had revenue of $31.5 billion in its 1995 fiscal year. More information about HP and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com. Information about the SPECweb96 benchmark and full results on all published benchmarks can be found at http://www.specbench.org. -0- Note to Editors: Microsoft is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. Pentium is a U.S. registered trademark of Intel Corp. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open(R) Company Limited. Windows is a U.S. registered trademark of Microsoft Corp. X/Open is a registered trademark, and the X device is a trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. in the UK and other countries. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Company Larry Sennett, 408/553-2916 larry_sennett@hp.com or Alexander Communications, Inc. for HP Debbie Young, 415/923-1660 dyoung@alexander-pr.com |
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