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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. In comparison, TPC-C dealt with simpler data and operations stored in nine tables that simulated inventory management at a...
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
IBM server speeds past rivals
News A $16.7m configuration of the company's eServer p5-595 performed 3.21 million transactions per minute on the TPC-C test from the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC-C), IBM said on Wednesday.
[November 19, 2004, 7:45]
IBM takes top spot in server-speed race
News IBM's p690 "Regatta" Unix server, introduced late in 2001, posted a score of 403,000 transactions per minute on a speed test called TPC-C, IBM said Thursday. HP spent more than a million dollars trying to achieve a fast TPC-C result after early...
[May 24, 2002, 12:02]
IBM claims server-speed victory over Intel
News A $5.6m (£2.94m) 32-processor IBM p690 was able to perform 1.025 million transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council TPC-C test. In 2003, IBM announced its last top TPC-C score with a Power-based server on the same day...
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
Opteron launches amidst benchmark fanfare
News The QuarteX-64 managed 82,226 transactions per minute on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark -- more than competing four-way servers from Hewlett-Packard, Dell and IBM. Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64, noted...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
HP beats million-transaction mark
News The system, an $8.4m (£5m) HP Integrity Superdome with 64 1.5GHz Itanium 2 processors running HP's version of Unix, achieved a score of 1,008,000 transactions per minute on the TPC-C test. HP and IBM have been fighting for the top spot in the TPC-C...
[November 5, 2003, 8:05]
Benchmark wars
News The TPC-C benchmark test is considered the de facto standard for online transaction processing (OLTP) database benchmarks, primarily because TPC-C attempts to simulate real-world OLTP database transactions.
[August 9, 2002, 19:33]
Microsoft to Oracle: Cease and desist
News He said Microsoft was unhappy with his latest stump speech, in which Ellison said that the only software that runs well on SQL Server running clustered Windows 2000 servers is the Transaction Processing Council's TPC-C benchmark suite.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
Intel makes 'linear scaling' Linux server
News We're very close" to reaching the 600,000 transaction-per-minute level on a database server speed test called TPC-C. The current top score on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C is 707,000 transactions per minute, held by a...
[June 6, 2003, 9:30]
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]
Oracle: The new industry bad boy?
News TPC chairman Jerrold Buggert acknowledged that the Microsoft-Compaq TPC-C benchmark result had been invalidated by the vote of the general council at a meeting in Oregon last week. The TPC-C is an industry standard test that measures transaction...
[July 6, 2000, 9:26]
IBM edges out HP in server speed test
News There's no real reason to believe that Sun wouldn't perform adequately on TPC-C, but it's a good guess that they wouldn't be the leader," said Gordon Haff, an Illuminata analyst. The TPC-C test has been dominated by servers running the Unix...
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
Linux to get mainstream server tests
News The tests correspond to the TPC-C, TPC-H and TPC-W tests from the Transaction Processing Performance Council. TPC-C in particular is widely watched, though companies willing to spend millions of pounds on hardware and tuning are more likely to...
[March 3, 2003, 8:03]
HP: Employee sabotaged Superdome tests
News HP said it noticed failures in the TPC-C test in early 2001. As a direct.result of Lim's actions.HP was unable to report what would have been industry-leading results on the TPC-C benchmark test in the first half of 2001," the company said in the...
[November 9, 2001, 9:28]
Sun and Fujitsu update Sparc64 VII chips
News On Sunday, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said Sun hardware running Oracle software had claimed the top spot in the TPC-C performance test from an IBM Power 595 server running AIX and DB2. Eunice said Sun's efforts to beat IBM's TPC-C...
[October 14, 2009, 15:55]
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. The TPC-C benchmark is an industry-standard test that measures transaction-processing...
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
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]
Ellison: Who needs fat clients?
News Oracle claims that even though Microsoft holds the Number One spot in the Transaction Processing Council TPC-C price/performance rankings, the only software which Microsoft can run at acceptable levels of speed and reliability in a clustered SQL...
[November 14, 2000, 8:07]
OpenLink ODBC Bench
Downloads Offering real-time comparative benchmarking for ODBC Drivers, Database Engines, and Operating Systems combinations with TPC-A and TPC-C like tests.
[August 9, 2006, 8:00]
'Cheap' NEC server tops speed test
News The system, an NEC Express5800/1320Xc costing $5.9m (£3.7m), displaced a 128-processor Unix server from Fujitsu that has been No.since August 2001 on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C test.
[April 24, 2003, 10:26]
