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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 correspond to the TPC-C, TPC-H and TPC-W tests from the...
[March 3, 2003, 8:03]
Microsoft To Oracle: Cease And Desist
News In a speech at OpenWorld, Ellison offered $10m to anyone who could get any application to run on Microsoft's TPC-C clustered-database configuration that the Transaction Processing Council awarded its top TPC-C price/performance ranking.
[October 27, 2000, 8:32]
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]
Servers Get New Database Speed Test
News The Transaction Processing Performance Council has approved the new standard, called TPC-E, which is designed to be easier and less expensive to run and to be more representative of what databases are used for these days.
[March 19, 2007, 9:30]
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. Similarly, the system beat out all others on the...
[April 22, 2003, 13:48]
Benchmark Wars
News So the Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) was created in an effort to provide uniform benchmark tests. The TPC-C benchmark test is considered the de facto standard for online transaction processing (OLTP) database benchmarks...
[August 9, 2002, 19:33]
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. IBM's performance was higher, with 221,000 transactions per second to Superdome's 197...
[January 11, 2001, 11:55]
IBM Edges Out HP In Server Speed Test
News The test, run by the Transaction Performance Council (TPC), measures the performance of a server handling simulated database transactions such as checking inventory, placing orders and recording payments.
[January 3, 2003, 8:05]
Intel Makes 'linear Scaling' Linux Server
News The current top score on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C is 707,000 transactions per minute, held by a Helwett-Packard Windows server using the forthcoming Itanium 2 6M processor.
[June 6, 2003, 9:30]
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]
Oracle: The New Industry Bad Boy? Pt II
News Microsoft claims its benchmark results were invalidated because the Transaction Processing Council "changed its rules, midstream". Officials say the company has since added the data-transparency feature that resulted in the Transaction Processing...
[July 6, 2000, 9:36]
Chipmakers Admit: Your Power May Vary
News Processor and server vendors often point to several well-known benchmark tests when they want to measure processor performance in certain types of situations, such as the various TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council) benchmarks for...
[June 12, 2006, 10:35]
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]
'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]
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. IBM also beat HP's score in price-performance, though discounts of high-end gear in the...
[February 18, 2004, 9:45]
Sweet-16 Server Scores Points For IBM
News The benchmark, or speed measurement, test was designed by the Transaction Processing Performance Council. IBM posted long-awaited performance scores on Wednesday for its x440 server with 16 Intel Xeon processors, a system it is using to try and...
[March 28, 2003, 11:37]
Processor Speeds Up HP's Unix Servers
News HP boasts the new system has broken some performance records and will break more, including the TPC-C test from the Transaction Performance Council that measures how well a server handles reading and writing database information.
[June 24, 2002, 8:49]
Sun's High Hopes For Niagara
News Specifically, running database tasks measured with the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-C benchmark, running four threads in one core triples performance compared with running one thread, Tremblay said.
[October 27, 2005, 17:00]
Sun Powers Up Low-end UltraSparc
News A V480 system beat out Dell and HP servers with four Xeon processors on the TPC-H data analysis speed test from the Transaction Processing Performance Council. The change improves the line's price-performance ratio by 26 percent, Sun said.
[August 4, 2003, 11:35]
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. Hewlett-Packard, for instance, spent more than $1m trying to track down problems...
[February 12, 2002, 11:46]
