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Highest
PPC-E performance-world record set by NEC
[March
24]SANTA CLARA, CA, USA--NEC Corporation of America, a premier
provider of IT, network and identity management solutions,
announced today that on February 27, 2008, the NEC Express5800/1320Xf
server with NEC S2500 storage reported the highest TPC-E performance
benchmark result in the industry.
In this specific TPC-E benchmark, the NEC
Express5800/1320Xf achieved 1,126.49 tpsE (transactions per
second-E) outperforming the next highest system by 70%.
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The price per performance was $2,771.79/tpsE,
demonstrating the power of an NEC Enterprise Server solution
with its S-Series storage arrays running 32 Dual-Core Intel®
Itanium® 9150 processors, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise
Edition for Itanium-based Systems on the Microsoft Windows
Server 2008 operating system. This is the first TPC-E result
on an Intel Itanium-based server product.
"Twice within a month, NEC has enjoyed
top rankings on the TPC's rigorous testing with its Express5800
Enterprise Servers. We are very proud to have achieved this
record-breaking scale up performance and to secure the top
position in TPC-E performance," said Mike Mitsch, general
manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC Corporation of
America. "The TPC-E result is further proof that NEC's Enterprise
servers and storage deliver the scalability and performance
required by modern OLTP system workloads."
Developed for over ten years and leveraging NEC's
award-winning supercomputer and mainframe technology, NEC
Express5800/1000 series servers meet mission critical business
needs for the enterprise. The NEC Express5800/1320Xf is the
third-generation NEC Express5800/1000 series Intel Itanium
processors server product incorporating NEC's innovative A3
chipset. NEC's A3 chipset contributes to the server's outstanding
reliability, availability, serviceability (RAS), scalability
and performance.
"This record-breaking TPC-E performance shows
what is possible when our industry partners utilize industry
leading technology, such as NEC's Enterprise Server, and the
enhancements of SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008,"
said David Powell, Director, SQL Server Performance at Microsoft
Corp. "This is further evidence SQL Server 2008 meets the
most mission critical needs of the most demanding OLTP system
workloads."
The TPC-E benchmark, introduced in February
2007, simulates the OLTP workload of a brokerage firm. The
focus of the benchmark is the central database that executes
transactions related to the firm's customer accounts. Although
the underlying business model of TPC-E is a brokerage firm,
the database schema, data population, transactions, and implementation
rules have been designed to be broadly representative of modern
OLTP systems.
Further product information on NEC Express5800/1320Xf
server and other Express5800/1000 series products can be found
at http://www.necam.com/Servers/Enterprise/1000Series.cfm.
Performance Result
Throughput 1,246.49 tpsE
Price/Performance $2,771.79/tpsE
Availability Date August 30, 2008
System NEC Express5800/1320Xf Server
Processor Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9150N 1.6GHz/24MB
L3 Cache
Number of Processors 32
Number of Processor Cores 64
Number of Processor Threads 64
System Memory 512GB
Data Storage NEC S2500 storage arrays
OS Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 for Itanium-based
Systems
Database Microsoft SQL Server® 2008 Enterprise
Edition for Itanium based Systems
Benchmark results and further information can
be found on the following sites:
http://www.tpc.org/tpce/tpce_perf_results.asp
http://www.tpc.org/tpce/tpce_result_detail.asp?id=9
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