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16 Oct 2009
#22362

Are Two Virtualized Halves of a Nehalem Box as Good as the Whole Thing?
Depends on the OS, Apparently

Curious about the impact of virtualization on benchmarking results? Jan Brosowski blogged in SAPonSun about testing two "half-box" virtual machines on the same box. He discovered a striking difference.
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13 Oct 2009
#22468

Oracle on Sun Beats IBM's Best Results on DB2 with Power 595
Oracle Offers Companies $10M in Performance Challenge

A new world record TPC-C benchmark result has been set for Oracle Database 11g running on Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers with CMT technology, along with Solaris 10 and the new Sun Storage F5100 Flash Array. Oracle reports this world record proves that the Oracle-Sun combination runs faster than IBM DB2 running on IBM’s flagship Power 595. Oracle believes so much in Sun hardware, it is offering companies $10 million if one can prove Oracle Database 11g runs at least twice as fast on IBM's fastest computer.
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