On Thu, Jul 06, 2000 at 05:23:39PM -0400, Jonathan Eunice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Btw, in discussing scalability, you might want to keep in mind that
> the world's fastest TPC-C benchmark (that is, DBMS and OLTP
> performance) is a Windows 2000 cluster. At just over 440K tpmC, it
> beats the fastest Unix competitor (at ~136K tpmC, the IBM S80, a 24x
> box) by over 3:1. If you forego absolute performance in favor of
> price/performance, all ten of the top ten resuls run Windows. Linux
> has never run this race.
I checked it out, and you're right, of course. IBM has the
highest mark running DB2 on a Netfinity 8500R c/s, which is a Windows
2000 cluster with 128 Xeon 700's. That's some hefty horsepower.
Note that there were 32 nodes, though, so each node only had 4
processors. 128 processors is the most of result on the chart, but a
number of the others achieved the same result with fewer processors,
and more in the same box. A cluster of *those* systems would surely
best the result of the W2K cluster. The most processors used in a
single W2K system appears to be 8. With a score of 56388.5 tpmC, it
puts it basically 9th for single systems (I'm excluding cluster and
virtually identical submissions from IBM and Bull).
Where can I pick up the W2K cluster? I can't. The system
availability is listed as December 7th, 2000. I can't say I blame
them for advertising way early, though.
OTOH, IBM also has the next item. It's a non-clustered machine
running IBM AIX on 24 450 MHz RS64-III CPUs and Oracle 8i. This
machine has been available since March according to the submitted
results.
Also, don't forget the TPC-H benchmark. From the results, it
appears results have been exclusively W2K for 100 GB databases, and
exclusively Un*x for 300 and 1000 GB databases.
I'm not presenting an argument per se, just trying to make things
clear. I encourage those interested to research TPC-C more at
http://www.tpc.org/New_Result/tpcc_all.html
Personally, I'm hoping Compaq can submit good results from a
cluster of GS320's (currently listed #2 for single systems).
--
Bob Bell Compaq Computer Corporation
Software Engineer 110 Spit Brook Rd - ZKO3-3/U14
TruCluster Group Nashua, NH 03062-2698
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 603-884-0595
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