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HP Publishs First Linux TPC-C Benchmarks

Posted by chrisd on from the the-benchmark-with-a-shady-past dept.

The first ever official TPC-C benchmark on a Linux system has been published. This was run on a cluster of 32 HP servers with Intel Xeon CPUs, running Redhat Linux and Oracle RDBMS. The system had over 18 terabytes of storage, and cost over 2 million US dollars. Performance was higher than a similar system running on MS Windows.

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  1. Comparable cost between windows and linux cluster by Wizard+of+OS · · Score: 5, Informative
    I did a quick compare and was kind of surprised by the following:
    Linux cluster:
    Total System Cost 2,380,546 US $
    TPC-C Throughput 138,362
    Price/Performance 17.21 US $

    Windows cluster:
    Total System Cost 2,533,095 US $
    TPC-C Throughput 137,261
    Price/Performance 18.46 US $

    Note that the number of clients in the windows tests is higher 24 instead of 16), with smaller CPU's. Also, the server's aren't identical.

    Besides from the small differences in setup, it's plain that hardware-costs greatly outnumber software costs. Yeah, linux has a small bit more performance (less than 1%) for a bit lower price (6%) but these aren't real shocking numbers. Of course, I'll get flamed for not bashing microsoft, but the difference really isn't that big.
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  2. Re:RedHat? by MikeNik · · Score: 4, Informative

    Ok.. I may get myself in some trouble here... Please be kind.. Red Hat Advanced Server is the first version of Linux to meet all the TPC requirements and provide the performance level of this benchmark. Numerous open source performance technologies were incorporated, without which, the performance would be significantly below 100,000 tpmC. The 7x24 - 4-hour response, 3 year SW and HW maintenance is also required. The TPC audit (done by a certified TPC auditor on-site) requires the demonstration of a full system crash, as well as a single node, without losing a single committed transaction. The audit for TPC benchmarks take many days... I hope the Linux community doesn't miss the point that the TPC benchmarks are the toughest benchmarks to run and pass the audit. 138K tpmC will run 95% of the OLTP business environments today. This publication provides input to the many large corporations looking more closely at Linux in the "bet your business" application areas (databases). Although I agree that the absolute numbers of performance and price/performance may not be applicable directly to many real customer applications, it is a very fair environment (level playing field) to compare HW and SW performance and price/performance. This, IMHO, is a significant step forward for Linux in the enterprise.