HP and Oracle R&D Relationship Yields Breakthrough TPC-C Performance; HP and Oracle Partner to Publish Oracle's First TPC-C Result on the HP 9000 Model T500 High-end Corporate Business Server.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)--July 24, 1995--As part of an ongoing research and development relationship between HP and Oracle Corp., Hewlett-Packard Company today announced the industry's highest open-systems TPC-C A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC. (1) benchmark result on its open, 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-based HP 9000 Model T500 Corporate Business Server. A 12-way symmetric multiprocessing See SMP. (parallel) symmetric multiprocessing - (SMP) Two or more similar processors connected via a high-bandwidth link and managed by one operating system, where each processor has equal access to I/O devices. (SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessing) A multiprocessing architecture in which multiple CPUs, residing in one cabinet, share the same memory. SMP systems provide scalability. As business increases, additional CPUs can be added to absorb the increased transaction volume. ) Model T500 running the 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. (2) 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. achieved 5,369.68 tpmC at $535/tpmC running the Oracle7 Server Release 7.3 -- the newest version of Oracle's industry-leading, highly scaleable parallel-processing database server, currently in beta test A test of new or revised hardware or software that is performed by users at their facilities under normal operating conditions. Beta testing follows alpha testing. Vendors of packaged software often offer their customers the opportunity of beta testing new releases or versions, and the . HP and Oracle engineers have been working together for more than a year in a high-end performance-focused R&D performance lab to enable Oracle7 Server to use HP's superior compiler technology and to tune HP-UX to run faster with the Oracle database. Using a combination of technologies called Intelligent Optimization -- available for the first time with HP-UX 10.0 General Business Release -- data is accessed more frequently from the high-speed hardware registers of the PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. (3) architecture and from the single-cycle, first-level, 2MB cache per processor of the Model T500. Intelligent Optimization provides customers with lower cost and greater performance because it enables the computer system and database to work together more efficiently -- which minimizes the need to access main memory. "We are delighted to work with HP, Oracle's leading revenue generator, to publish our first TPC-C benchmark result after not having published 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 results for some time," said Jerry Baker Jerry Baker is an American author who has written numerous gardening, household improvement, and health books. He lives in New Hudson, Michigan. Baker is also the host of a gardening program produced by Detroit Public Television (PBS) and a radio show called , senior vice president, Oracle Corporation. "Since Oracle is the leading database solutions provider, especially in the high-end, our record-breaking TPC-C results are another demonstration of what our customers and the industry already know -- Oracle is the clear leader in scalability, performance and capacity for open-systems enterprise solutions." As a result of the strong relationship between HP and Oracle, the new result on HP's 12-way SMP Model T500 is the highest TPC-C benchmark for any single server running a UNIX system-based operating system. When comparing competitive open-systems computer TPC-C Version 3 results, the high-end Model T500 outperforms the AT&T/GIS Model 3555/4 10-way SMP high-end system (3,312.70 tpmC at $587/tpmC) by 62 percent. "We are extremely pleased that Oracle, HP's largest independent software vendor, has chosen HP's Model T500 to run its first TPC-C benchmark," said Willem P. Roelandts, HP senior vice president and general manager of the Computer Systems Organization. "HP and Oracle have worked for many years to cooperate extensively on mainframe-alternative solutions where high transaction performance plays such a critical role. This outstanding TPC-C result illustrates the companies' proven ability to meet their mutual customers' most demanding performance and scalability requirements for mission-critical applications such as decision support and data warehousing." The HP 9000 Model T500 Corporate Business Server is based on HP's industry-leading HP-UX operating system and PA-RISC technology. HP's Model T500, which also is based on open-systems and industry standards, supports up to 12-way SMP and offers customers the high-performance and systems-management capabilities required by data-center environments. As data centers worldwide move away from proprietary systems, customers are reassured with the scalability and growth path provided by the HP 9000 Corporate Business Server. HP has moved more than 1,000 companies successfully to open-systems, client/server computing as part of its Mainframe Alternative Program. HP believes its success in this program is based on the company's ability to deliver mainframe performance with high-quality applications from proven software companies; its strong relationships with key partners; and its worldwide support and consulting organization, which has technical and migration expertise. Oracle7 Server(4) is the leading open systems database server for both on-line transaction processing (database) On-Line Transaction Processing - (OLTP) The processing of transactions by computers in real time. and data warehousing, with single production databases serving thousands of users and storing hundreds of gigabytes of data. Oracle7 Server scales to dozens of processors or hundreds of nodes. Enterprise-strength Oracle7 Server capabilities include industry-leading parallelized query, load, and index along with unique functionality such as Oracle7 Parallel Server(5) for clusters, "update-anywhere" replication, and support for "compute anywhere" wireless computing through Oracle Mobile Agents(6). Oracle Corp., a $3 billion company with headquarters in Redwood Shores, Calif., is the world's leading supplier of information management software. Oracle software runs on personal digital assistants, set-top devices, PCs, workstations, minicomputers, mainframes and massively parallel computers. The company offers its products, along with related consulting, education and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services , in more than 90 countries around the world. HP is the second-largest computer supplier in the United States, with computer-related revenue of $19.6 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. HP has been delivering PA-RISC-based computers since 1986 with high reliability, data integrity, data availability and system availability. 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 98,600 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- Note to Editors: UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries, licensed exclusively through X/Open Company Limited. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Company Limited in the U.K. and other countries. (1) TPC-C is a benchmark developed by the industrywide 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. (TPC). The TPC-C benchmark defines a rigorous standard for calculating performance and price/performance measured by transactions per minute (tpmC) and $/tpmC, respectively. TPC-C is considered the best standard measure of OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing performance. (2) HP-UX 9.X and 10.0 for HP 9000 Series 700 and 800 computers are X/Open Company UNIX 93 branded products. (3) PA-RISC stands for Precision Architecture, HP's name for its reduced-instruction-set computing (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. ) technology. (4) Oracle7 is a product of Oracle Corp. (5) Oracle7 Parallel Server is a product of Oracle Corp. (6) Oracle Mobile Agents is a product of Oracle Corp. CONTACT: Hewlett-Packard Company Terri Powell, 408/447-1673 |
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