IBM beats HP transaction record | | 2008-06-10 | | IBM has shattered the processor transaction speed record previosly help by HP.
Clocking up 6,085,166 tpmC at $2.81/tpmC, the POWER6 processor-based Power 595 enterprise server running the AIX operating system, with DB2 9.5 data server and DS4800 storage achieved nearly three times the performance per processor core of HP Superdome, at a lower cost.
According to IBM, the performance of the Power 595 enables customers to replace three 128 core HP Superdomes (384 cores spanning six computer racks) with two 64 core Power 595 servers (128 cores spanning just two computer racks), reducing the number of processor cores by 66 percent, saving 20 percent on energy costs and 55 percent on software licensing purchased by the core, and reducing floor space by 59 percent.
Per core performance matters, as many major UNIX software vendors charge per core for software licenses.
The DB2 9.5 server offers a number of advances, including pure XML data management capabilities and row-based data storage compression technology, which yields significant disk, I/O and memory savings.
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