Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Cluster is number one in the Top Ten TPC-C List by Performance as of Nov. 24, 2009. Using 12 Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 servers, 60 Sun Storage F5100 Flash arrays and Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition with Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Partitioning, Sun delivered a world record TPC-C benchmark result of 7,646,486.7 tpmC and $2.36 $/tpmC (USD). TPC-C is an online transaction processing (OLTP) benchmark.

Marcus Heckel reported on the results in the BestPerf blog. Highlights of his summary on Sun's performance reveal the 12-node Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster beats the performance of the IBM Power 595 (5GHz) with IBM DB2 9.5 database by 26% and has 16% better price/performance. Also, the complete Oracle/Sun solution used 10.7x better computational density than the IBM configuration (computational density = performance/rack), with the Sun/Oracle solution using 8 times fewer racks.

Compared to the HP Superdome (1.6GHz Itanium2), the Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server cluster performed 87% better and offered 19% better price/performance.

Considering TPC-C response times, Heckel points out that Sun is 10x faster than IBM on New Order transactions that finish in the 90% percentile. He also notes that none of Sun's response times, average or 90th percentile, for any transaction is over 0.25 seconds. IBM does not have even one interactive transaction, not even the menu, below 0.50 seconds.

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