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Compaq AlphaServer™ ES40 Establishes New World Record TPC-C Benchmark for Four-Processor Systems
HOUSTON, March 13, 2001
Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE: CPQ) announced today that itsAlphaServer™ ES40 system has established a new TPC-C performance record for four-processor systems, outperforming comparable midrange systems from Sun, Hewlett-Packard and IBM.
An AlphaServer ES40 system runningTru64™ UNIX and Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise achieved a record-breaking 37,274 tpmC (transactions per minute) in the industry standard benchmark. In establishing the new standard, the AlphaServer ES40 server, using Compaq's new 64-bit, 833 MHz Alpha microprocessors, also posted a breakthrough price/performance figure of $19.11/tpmC (per transactions per minute), becoming the first UNIX server to break through the $20 mark.
"Today's announcement is further evidence that we deliver the industry's most cost-effective high-performance enterprise solutions," said Don Harbert, vice president of Compaq's High Performance Server Business Unit. "The AlphaServer ES40 system is ideally suited to meet the most demanding data-intensive requirements of our customers worldwide in e-business, financial services, telecommunications and high-performance technical computing."
Andrew Allison, computer industry consultant and editor/publisher of the Inside the New Computer Industry Newsletter, commenting on the benchmark results, said, "In yet another demonstration of the industry-leading performance delivered by the Alpha architecture, Compaq's AlphaServer ES40 has become the first mid-range UNIX server to break the $20/tpmC barrier. It delivers 50 percent better performance than Sun's E450 at lower cost/tpm."
Terry Shannon, publisher of Shannon Knows Compaq, said, "The new AlphaServer TPC results reassert Compaq's Alpha bragging rights and highlight the substantial price and price-performance benefits of the 833 MHz processor and its 8MB L2 cache. Do the math: the AlphaServer ES40 with the 833MHz processor is almost 25 percent faster--yet costs about one-third less on a $/tpmC basis--than its AlphaServer ES40 667 MHz predecessor."
The TPC-C results follow a series of record-breaking application performance standards that have been established by the AlphaServer ES40 system with the new 833 MHz Alpha processor. Last month, ES40 servers established new highs in the Oracle Applications benchmark, the SAP Business Warehousing benchmark and the SPEC CPU2000 industry standard benchmark.
Shipments of Compaq 833 MHz AlphaServer ES40 systems have been underway for two months. An early user is Celera Genomics, which last year became the first private company to complete the mapping of the human genome. In doing so, Celera relied exclusively on networked Compaq AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster®software to perform some of the most complex data analysis in the history of supercomputing.
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