IBM RS/6000 SP Posts New Business Intelligence Benchmark (TPC-D) Results
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The RS/6000 SP, configured with IBM's award-winning AIX operating system, DB2 Universal Database Enterprise-Extended Edition, and IBM's Serial Storage Architecture disk technology, set record-breaking Transaction Processing Council (TPC-D) benchmarks on August 17, 1998, for a 300GB database using IBM's new 332 MHz SMP nodes. TPC results are available at http://www.tpc.com

Recently the Palo Alto Management Group (PAMG) found IBM was the leader among the eight companies that together account for 47 percent of the worldwide data warehousing/decision support solutions business.

"These results go beyond bragging about benchmarks," said Michael J. Borman, general manager, IBM RS/6000. "This is testament to the importance of total-system scalability and to the SP's outstanding parallel-processing capabilities in that area. These benchmarks prove that IBM offers the most scalable and affordable solutions for our customers whether their databases are big, bigger, or biggest."

IBM's performance levels were achieved while running 16 streams in the throughput test. This is important to customers with large databases and concurrent users because the throughput metric is much more indicative of performance in that type of environment.

The RS/6000 SP high-performance system uses the power of parallel processing to expand application horizons. Designed for performance and scalability, this system makes feasible the processing of applications characterized by large scale data handling and compute intensity. Installed in over 4,400 customer locations worldwide, the SP system delivers solutions for some of the most complex and largest technical and commercial problems. Customer uses include: mission-critical commercial computing solutions to address data mining and data warehouse applications, online transaction processing (OLTP) applications, server consolidation, and collaborative computing comprised of Lotus Notes, Domino Server, Internet, intranet, extranet, and groupware application solutions.

The article refers to a TPC-D benchmark of 10,469 Power, 6,166 Throughput, and $790 $/Qph.