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Intel TPC benchmarks show Linux as leader

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-going-to-eleven dept.

prostoalex writes "Intel announced Linux to be the winner of Intel's own TPC-C benchmark test. A 32-processor Itanium machine performed 600,000 transactions per minute under Linux, leading the way before Windows as Unix. IBM's Unix server used to be the leader."

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  1. Re:Link Is Broken by GiMP · · Score: 4, Informative

    From news.com:
    http://news.com.com/2100-1010_3-1013764 .html

  2. Submitters need to read the article by cookd · · Score: 5, Informative

    The current record for TPC-C for non-clustered systems is a Windows Server 2003 (64 bit edition) on a 64 processor IA64 system from HP running SQL Server 2000 64 bit edition. It runs 707k TPM in official benchmarks.

    The Intel system mentioned was a 32 processor IA64 system running Oracle. It got a score of "near 600k" in Intel's internal benchmarks.

    Intel is keeping quiet about the details, and hasn't yet submitted a system for "official" testing. But it sounds like their kernel tweaks and their optimizing compiler have made a huge difference, and Oracle on Linux is a serious contender.

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    1. Re:Submitters need to read the article by jsse · · Score: 3, Informative

      You're right. The problem is in the wording of the headline:
      A 32-processor Itanium machine performed 600,000 transactions per minute under Linux, leading the way before Windows as Unix.

      I think he meant " leading the way next to Windows and Unix. It's rather confusing and should have been fixed before getting out of registered zone.

      Also, in your post:
      and Oracle on Linux is a serious contender.

      Hmm...I might have to disgree with you on this. Linux(RedHat AS, or ES) works really closely with Oracle in the enterprise market. Big Tux are travalling worldwide to promote Redhat AS+Oracle Enterprise solution. I just attended a local conference held by Redhat+Oracle.

      The solution is not cheap, though. The AS alone cost around US$6000 per (intel)processor, not including the cost of RAC (Oracle clusters). The stupid pricing might really kills much of the incentive adopting Linux+Oracle, especially when the customers realize that AS's High Availability and Oracle's cluster does not work well together. (straight out of my experience. That's why I said that's really stupid pricing - spending extra for something that can't work together)

      Oh btw, fyi, if it's running on Redhat AS 2.1, it's using a 2.4 based kernel. AS would not support next version of kernel til next year.

  3. Wrong... by burnsy · · Score: 3, Informative
    IBM's Unix server used to be the leader.

    Sorry, old news. MS/SQL Server used to be the leader (and still is). They lost the crown for about 3 weeks to IBM.