IBM TXSeries TPC-C Benchmark
White Papers We will continue to run benchmarks with a variety of hardware and software configurations as an ongoing component of our development effort to maintain our technology leadership. We view this benchmark not just as a milestone, but also as a...
[March 24, 2004, 23:00]
Benchmark Wars
News They developed TPC-C benchmark for OLTP benchmarks, TPC-R and TPC-H (formerly TPC-DS) benchmarks for data warehouses and decision support systems, and the TPC-W benchmark for Web-based systems. The TPC-C benchmark test is considered the de facto...
[August 9, 2002, 19:33]
Linux To Get Mainstream Server Tests
News The Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) has released three speed tests, or benchmarks, that correspond to three tests from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The tests are subsets of benchmarks from the TPC consortium that measure...
[March 3, 2003, 8:03]
HP Denies 'tepid' Superdome Server Performance
News HP acknowledged losing out to IBM on the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark -- a widely watched measurement of database transaction performance. However, HP beat Sun and IBM on a real-world benchmark running SAP's business software...
[January 11, 2001, 11:55]
IBM Edges Out HP In Server Speed Test
News For true benchmark validity, customers should use a variety of independent software vendor benchmarks, such as Oracle, Baan or PeopleSoft, in conjunction with industry standards from organizations such as TPC and SPEC," the Standard Performance...
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
Servers Get New Database Speed Test
News After 14 years measuring the world's most powerful servers, the TPC-C speed test is being supplanted by a new benchmark. The Transaction Processing Performance Council has approved the new standard, called TPC-E, which is designed to be easier and...
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy?
News The TPC, a non-profit consortium whose membership largely comprises systems vendors, publishes transaction processing and database benchmarks -- and its decision toppled Microsoft from the top of the benchmark heap.
[July 6, 2000, 9:26]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy? Pt II
News As such, the TPC-C rating is of great interest to companies looking to purchase the most scalable systems for e-commerce and other high-transaction applications. World-changing or not, Microsoft admits it now has some work to do if it intends to...
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
IBM And Unix Speed Past HP And Windows
News IBM's p690 Turbo Unix server, newly overhauled with faster processors and other components, posted a score of 681,000 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C test.
[May 12, 2003, 8:59]
New Chip Powers High-end Intel Servers
News On the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark, which counts transactions per second, the four-processor Gallatin box is currently only "a little bit underneath" a similar Itanium system, Intel's Graff said.
[November 4, 2002, 8:16]
Opteron Launches Amidst Benchmark Fanfare
News Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64, noted that TPC-C is one of the benchmarks commonly used to compare systems. The QuarteX-64 managed 82,226 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
Sweet-16 Server Scores Points For IBM
News Server makers can spend millions of dollars preparing for the widely watched TPC-C test. The IBM server that racked up the TPC-C result used Microsoft's coming Windows Server 2003 operating system, scheduled to arrive on 24 April.
[March 28, 2003, 11:37]
Unix Servers Fight It Out For Top Spot
News Probably the highest profile belongs to the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C, an inventory test that's similar to SPECjbb but doesn't use Java. Though universally acknowledged to be an incomplete measure of a server's merits...
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
HP Touts Advantages Of Itanium 2
News For example, on the widely used TPC-C test that simulates inventory transactions with a computerised warehouse, an HP rx5670 server with four Itanium 2 processors has a score of 78,000, bettering 55,000 of the IBM x440 system with eight Xeon MP...
[July 9, 2002, 11:01]
HP: Firing Saboteur Boosted Superdome
News HP nearly doubled the measurement of how fast a Superdome is able to communicate with a database in an independent test, the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C "benchmark" measurement. Benchmarks are necessary but not sufficient to persuade...
[November 20, 2001, 9:48]
Intel Debuts Dual-core MP Xeons
News We've demonstrated the first TPC-C benchmarks under a dollar per transaction, and we've now got dual-core right across our range" Intel has announced its first multiprocessor dual-core Xeon server processors, which are now shipping.
[November 1, 2005, 16:50]
Intel Launches Penryn Chips
News The company said some of its partners set world records for scores on well-known benchmarks, such as TPC-C and SPECint_rate2006, with the basic Xeon chips. Just a few months after the launch of AMD's quad-core Barcelona chips, Intel is hitting back...
[November 12, 2007, 7:36]
IBM Boosts Servers With New Intel Chips
News The company says its eight-processor x440 using the new 2GHz Xeon MP turned in 20 percent higher scores on benchmarks such as the Transaction Performance Council's TPC-C, which counts transactions per second.
[November 5, 2002, 16:33]
Itanium 2: Pricing Is Key
News The entry-level server reported a 40,638 transactions per minute result on the TPC-C online transaction benchmark, while the four-way rx5670 reported 79,000 transactions per minute, which HP said outpaces RISC and IA-32 servers with twice the...
[July 8, 2002, 14:19]
SQL Server 64-bit Undercuts RISC Rivals
News However, Microsoft has been quietly creeping up the rankings, and last month a pre-launch version of 64-bit SQL Server reached number 2 in the non-clustered TPC-C benchmark performance table running on an NEC Itanium 2 mainframe.
[April 14, 2003, 11:18]
