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HP, Along With Oracle, Redefines High-end Data-Warehouse Landscape with Record-setting Price/Performance and Query Processing Power
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Hewlett-Packard Company has announced world-record power, throughput and price/performance results for the 300GB TPC-D benchmark with its latest-generation HP 9000 high-end server and the industry-leading Oracle database. Today's outstanding results demonstrate the sheer computing power and scalability of HP's new HP 9000 V2500 Enterprise Server when running data-warehousing and business-intelligence solutions.

The TPC-D result achieved on the V2500, featuring 32 high-performance 64-bit CPUs running an Oracle8i database, beat all existing 300GB benchmarks in all categories including best performance, throughput and price/performance. Compared with the closest competitor, the HP system delivered four times the processing power with a power metric of 56,243.7 QppD@300GB. HP's throughput metric of 7,540 QthD@300GB and exceptional price/performance of $204/QphD@300GB, also led all competitors by a wide margin. The HP and Oracle combination delivered four times the performance over systems from IBM, NCR and Sun with up to 104 CPUs. HP's new scalable computing architecture (SCA) scales up to 128 CPUs with peak performance at all levels.

"These results are proof of the extreme power and performance of the V2500," said Janice Chaffin, general manager for HP's High Performance Systems Division. "For our customers, this means they can tackle some of their burning platform issues, such as growing their businesses and maintaining and growing customer loyalty."

"The combination of HP's V2500 with Oracle's 8i database provides our customers with all the power and performance they need to implement high-end data warehouses," said, Dan Poirier, vice president, HP Product Division, Oracle Corporation. "With the full power of the V2500, we are anticipating unparalleled levels of performance and scalability for data-warehousing and business-intelligence solutions."

The following table shows a comparison of the best TPC-D results from HP and other vendors. A complete listing of results is posted on the Transaction Processing Performance Council Web site at http://www.tpc.org.

  300GB TPC-D Benchmark Results
  System                      QppD          QthD          $/QthD
  ------                      ----          ----          ------

  HP 9000 V2500               56,243.7      7,540.0        $204
  NCR WorldMark 5150          12,588.3      4,619.5       1,609
  IBM RS/6000 SP550           10,469.6      6,166.5         721
  SUN UE10000                  8,113.2      3,343.9       1,401

  System                     QNo. of        Database       Availability
                              CPUs
  ------                     -----          --------       ------------
  
  HP 9000 V2500                 32          Oracle8i       Aug. 1, 1999
  NCR WorldMark 5150           104          Teradata       May 7, 1998
  IBM RS/6000 SP550             96          DB2            Oct. 31, 1998
  SUN UE10000                   64          Informix       June 15, 1998

  HP V-Class Enterprise Servers

The HP 9000 V-Class Enterprise Server family provides customers with the performance and scalability to tackle demanding data-warehousing, transaction-processing, enterprise resource-planning, and engineering applications. For the industry's most robust high-end server solution, HP combines the V2500 Enterprise Server with HP's industry-proven 64-bit HP-UX(1) operating environment; 64-bit PA-8500 RISC architecture; and HP's mission-critical product offerings, services and support. Since its introduction in December 1998, HP has sold more than 100 V2500 servers. Additionally, HP's new scalable computing architecture (SCA) represents a breakthrough in HP's high-end technology and HP-UX 11 operating environment. More information on HP's OpenWarehouse businessintelligence solutions can be found at
http://www.hp.com/go/datawarehouse.

About TPC

The Transaction Processing Performance Council is a non-profit organization founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks to the industry. The TPC-D benchmark models a decision support environment in which complex business-oriented queries are submitted against a large database.

About HP

Hewlett-Packard Company is a leading global provider of computing, Internet and intranet solutions, services, communications products and measurement solutions, all of which are recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 124,600 employees and had revenue of $47.1 billion in its 1998 fiscal year.

Information about HP, its products and the company's Year 2000 program can be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.hp.com.

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