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HP News Advisory
August 3, 1993
Editor's note: HP today disclosed the highest performance and
best price-performance ever published based on the TPC-C
benchmark. The HP 9000 Model H50 achieved 613.80 tpmC at
$1,638/tpmC running the Informix 5.01 database.
o This result compares very favorably to IBM's AS/400 and
RS/6000 results.
The uniprocessor H50, with a list price of $68,000,
outperformed the 2-CPU AS/400 Model F80 with a list price
of $730,000. The AS/400, which published 580.30 tpmC at
$3,280/tpmC, is more than twice as expensive in overall
five-year cost of ownership.
The IBM RS/6000's best TPC-C result is 395.68 tpmC at
$2,003/tpmC. By comparison, the H50 achieves 55 percent
higher performance with a 22 percent better
price/performance.
o The Model H50 is ideal as a departmental server. HP
provides other Series 800 servers with up to four times the
performance of the Model H50.
o The HP 9000 provides industry-leading performance in OLTP
and in several other performance-critical environments
including batch, file serving, software development serving,
and compute serving. Benchmarks for these environments
include LADDIS, Kenbus, SDet, SPECint92 and SPECfp92.
o Until ratification of the TPC-C benchmark, the TPC-A
benchmark was the best measure of high-volume OLTP
performance. While TPC-A and TPC-C are industry-standard
and provide a level playing field for comparisons, TPC-C
represents a more realistic environment with more complex
transactions, a more complex database, and background batch
and OLTP processing. TPC-C is more representative of
today's typical OLTP production environments.
EDITORIAL CONTACTS:
Terri Powell
(408) 447-1673
Melissa Calvo
(408) 447-5456