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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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