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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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