First Industry-Standard Benchmark On 64-bit Linux

Haider writes "IBM has published two TPC-H benchmarks at the 100GB and 300GB scale factors (meaning the raw data in the database). The results are published at www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results. The two results were published with exactly the same hardware and show scalability of the solution as more data is put on it. The system was a cluster of 8 2-way nodes running 2GHz AMD Opteron cpus with 6 GB of memory on each node. The OS was SLES 8 for AMD, and the database was 64-bit DB2 for Linux. The details of this solution are described in an article at infoworld.com."

Comments

WHAT?

[Anonymous Coward]

The headline here is absurdly wrong. These benchmarks are most certainly NOT the first to be performed on 64-bit Linux. Just to name one example, SGI published SPECfp_rate, STREAM, and Linpack benchmarks on their Itanium 2 systems months and months ago.

This is a benchmark. It is not the first, nor is it the most important.

x86-64 linux, to be precise. Article explains.

[Ayanami Rei]

And the numbers are staggering. ^_^ How many CPUs (total) are in each cluster ranked?

hmm....

[gabe]

A cluster with 16 2GHz Opteron processors, running SuSE Enterprise Linux and DB2 beat a Hpaq system with 64 900MHz PIII Xeon processors running Win2k Advanced Server and DB2. I'd say that's cause for celebration at least.

A little biased in your reading.

[Inoshiro]

If you'll notice, the colum where it has total QphH figures is the big telling factor here. Look down at the 10,000gb range, for example. When you scale up the total QphH, your cost per QphH also rises (kinda like how a P4 costs more per Mhz at its highest stepping as compared to the next highest stepping). The Solaris solution that is 40$/QphH is also 1/12th as powerful overall.

A fairer comparison would be to something with a similar overall power. HP's offering with only 100 less QphH than IBM's offering costs 203$ QphH vs. the 65$ US of the IBM version.

I think it's really amazing that an install whose raw power is so much higher than anything else in the class is still as affordable as IBM's nearest Windows solution, which gives you half the power for about the same price per QphH.