Sun heeft bekend gemaakt dat de Sun Enterprise 10000 'Starfire' server een nieuw TPC-C snelheidsrecord heeft gehaald in de categorie voor single-system servers. De Starfire doos trok 156.873 transacties per minuut en neemt daarmee de troffee over van IBM's AS/400E, die net iets minder snel was met 152.346 tpmC. Het Sun systeem draaide op 64 400MHz UltraSparc II processors en beschikte over 64GB geheugen. Solaris 7 werd als OS gebruikt en Sybase ASE fungeerde als database server:
Flexing the muscle that has made it the undisputed champion of the high-end UNIX® server realm, Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SUNW - news) today announced that a Sun Enterprise(TM) 10000 server smashed the world record for single-system performance on the TPC-C benchmark by registering 156,873.03 transactions per minute (tpmC) running Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) at a very economical $48.81 price/tpmC. Continuing its longtime performance leadership, the Sun Enterprise 10000 server, popularly known as the Starfire(TM) server, has set or reset 40 benchmark records in its storied four-year history.
According to International Data Corp., the Starfire accounted for 51 percent of the high-end UNIX servers shipped in the first quarter of calendar year 2000. In stark contrast, IBM accounted for a meager 5 percent of shipments during that same period and Hewlett-Packard 23 percent. Unequaled scalability and abundant RAS features, such as Dynamic System Domains, Inter Domain Networking, dynamic reconfiguration and alternate pathing, have kept Sun's flagship server in a league of its own.
[...] Established by the Transaction Processing Council, the TPC-C benchmark is an industry-standard test designed to measure systems' online transaction processing capacity under controlled conditions.
On the TPC-C benchmark, Sun's flagship Starfire server delivered an overwhelming 156,873.03 transactions per minute (tpmC) running Sybase ASE and a highly competitive price/performance mark of $48.81 price/tpmC. The system, running Sybase release 12.0.0.2 and the Solaris(TM) 7 Operating Environment, was configured for this benchmark with 64 UltraSPARC(TM) II 400 MHz CPUs, each with a 8 MB external cache, and 64 GB of internal memory combined with 36 StorEdge A5200 disk arrays and eight Sun StorEdge(TM) T3 disk arrays totaling 15.5 TB of storage. The configuration is scheduled to be available February 28, 2001.