Oracle's Sun Fire X4800 M2 server equipped with eight 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E7-8870 chips and 4TB RAM and 160 CPU threads obtained a result of 4,803,718 tpmC on the TPC-C benchmark with a price performance of $0.98/tpmC using the Oracle Linux OS with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2 and Oracle Database 11g Release 2 with partitioning. This result is 2.5x times better performance than the next 8-processor result, an IBM System p 570 equipped with POWER6 processors, and 3.1x times better price/performance than the 8-processor 4.7GHz POWER6 IBM System p 570.
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Oracle’s Sun Fire X4800 M2, running Oracle Database 11g Release 2, achieved an x86 record of 4,803,718 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $.98/tpmC. The X4800 equipped with eight Intel Xeon E7-8870 processors and 4 Terabytes (TB) of Samsung’s Green DDR3 memory was nearly 3x faster than IBM's eight-processor result for a p570 and nearly 60 percent faster than the best DB2 result on IBM’s x86 server. The Sun Fire X4800 M2 delivered nearly 3x better price per TPC-C transaction than a 64-processor HP Superdome server and over 2.65x faster than HP’s best Proliant DL580 G7 score.
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Oracle reports that its Oracle Database 11g Standard Edition One and Oracle Linux with the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 2, running on a Cisco UCS C250 M2 Extended-Memory Rack-Mount Server with two Intel Xeon X5690 3.46 GHz processors, achieved 1,053,100 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $0.58/tpmC.com/us/corporate/press/1425234. This is in contrast to the nearly 11 percent lower per tpmC of the nearest competition -- the HP ProLiant DL380 G7 -- on a configuration utilizing identical Intel processors and memory capacity.
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"Picking a non-C locale can hurt performance – something that has been known for many years. In this case, a GNU grep(1) bug inflated the translation overhead to slow down performance by a huge degree: up to 2000x. In short: leave LANG=C; aim DTrace at everything – even grep(1)." This is the recommendation Brendan Gregg arrives at in his post "2000x performance win." He recounts his experience in testing hypotheses framed to discover performance degradation in a production SmartOS cloud environment and the code samples involved with arriving at the conclusion above.
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The four-processors SPARC T4-4 Server bested the eight-processor per-core results of both IBM's Power7 and HP's ProLiant DL980 G7, achieving 205,792 QphH@3000GB with price/performance of $4.10/QphH@3000GB, 7% faster than the IBM Power 780 server with POWER7 processors (total of 32 cores) on the TPC-H @3000GB benchmark and 27% faster than the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server with x86 processors. The SPARC T4-4 Server also outperformed its IBM and HP rivals in data loading and refresh function while achieving a peak IO rate from the Oracle database of 17 GB/sec and showing linear scaling from TPC-H @1000GB to TPC-H @3000GB.
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In a recent press release Oracle announced a new performance record for its SPARC T4-4 server: a best-in-class TPC-H benchmark result at the three TB scale factor. Oracle Database 11g Release 2 and Oracle Solaris 11, running on a SPARC T4-4 server with four SPARC T4 3 GHz processors, achieved a stellar result of 205,792 QphH@3000GB with a price of $4.10/QphH@3000GB, over two times better performance per processor with 36 percent lower price per query (reported as $/QphH@3000GB) than IBM's most recent result by an eight processor Power 780 server running Sybase.
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