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's Netra SPARC T4-2 Server equipped with two SPARC T4 processors running at 2.85 GHz set a world record result of 454.52 SPECjvm2008 Peak ops/m on the SPECjvm2008 benchmark. This result surpassed the previous record, which was run on a similar product, Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server. This level of performance is 41% better than the SPARC T3-2 server and similar in performance to Oracle's SPARC T4-2 server. The Netra SPARC T4-2 server with hardware cryptography acceleration greatly increases performance with subtests using AES and RSA encryption ciphers. There are no SPECjvm2008 results published by IBM on POWER7 based systems.
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"It takes about one million atoms to store a single bit of information, unless you're a scientist with IBM Research. IBM scientists reported Thursday that they had successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms ..."
Moore’s Law has gotten a new lease on life as "IBM Engineers Atomic-Scale Memory." How about reducing the number of atoms needed to store a single bit by 100,000 give or take a few atoms. IBM Research has demonstrated the ability to store a single bit on 12 atoms, currently this takes 1,000,000 atoms. WOW!
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"IBM's Watson supercomputer is about to begin work evaluating evidence-based cancer treatment options that can be delivered to the physician in a matter of seconds for assessment ..."
The first real job is announced as IBM’s
[url "Watson Shows Up for Work at Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center". The health field is perfect for Watson as data changes often across so many fronts that medical providers can not keep up. There is a help at hand from the offspring of the Jeopardy! Champion.
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