Sun posted a cross-platform world-record performance scores on the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark D (TPC-D) benchmark with its Sun Enterprise 3500 server and Sun StorEdge A5000 Fiber Channel arrays, scorching the next best power score and more than doubling the nearest throughput score. In also reaching the highest watermark by supporting 16 concurrent query streams, the Sun Enterprise 3500 server achieved performance results that solidify its position as a leading midrange server and reaffirm Sun's ability to consistently deliver best-of-breed solutions for data warehouse and decision support systems.

Sun Performance and Configuration

The Sun Enterprise 3500 server with Sun StorEdge Fiber Channel arrays delivered a breakthrough power score of 13,738.7 QppD@100GB and simultaneously shot to the top of the throughput chart with 2,551 QthD@100GB, both platform-independent records for the 100GB class. Price/performance registered $182.00/QphD@100GB. The system, running Oracle8i release 8.1 and Solaris 7 operating environment, was configured for this benchmark with: eight UltraSPARC 400MHz CPUs (each with a 4MB external L2 cache); 8GB of memory; and nine Sun StorEdge A5000 Fiber Channel arrays along with two StorEdge multipacks, for a grand total of 1.2TB of storage. The configuration is scheduled to be available on May 18, 1999.

The TPC-D benchmark is a performance metric established by the Transaction Processing Council to demonstrate data warehousing and decision support capabilities using a suite of business-orientated queries with concurrent updates. The TPC-D measurements are produced for customers to evaluate the performance of various decision support systems by executing sets of queries against a standard database under controlled conditions. [...read more...]

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