NEC Solutions Achieves Record-Breaking TPC-C Benchmark Score on 32-Way NEC Server

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Apr 6, 2004 — 1 min read

NEC Solutions (America), Inc., a premier provider of integrated solutions for the Connected Enterprise in North America, recently announced a record-breaking TPC-C benchmark score conducted on a 32-way NEC server running Oracle(R) Database 10g Enterprise Edition and a pre-release of the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server. The 609,467 transactions per minute (tpmC) benchmark score was achieved by leveraging NEC's highly scalable, ccNUMA system architecture utilizing 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors. This significant achievement demonstrates the performance and flexibility of systems based on Intel's Itanium 2 processors for large databases.

Key Takeaways:

NEC Solutions achieved a record-breaking TPC-C benchmark score of 609,467 transactions per minute (tpmC) on a 32-way NEC server.
The benchmark was conducted using Oracle(R) Database 10g Enterprise Edition and a pre-release of the SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.
NEC's highly scalable, ccNUMA system architecture utilizing 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors was instrumental in achieving this significant performance milestone.
Oracle Database 10g is designed to take advantage of system and processor advancements such as those made by NEC and Intel Corporation.
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server for Intel Itanium Processor Family is designed to meet the highest requirements in terms of scalability and performance.

Statistics:

NEC Solutions achieved a TPC-C benchmark score of 609,467 transactions per minute (tpmC) on a 32-way NEC server.
The benchmark was conducted using 32 Intel Itanium 2 processors at 1.5 GHz, each with 6MB L3 cache.
The system was configured with 512 GB RAM and ran Oracle(R) Database 10g Enterprise Edition and SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9.
The TPC-C benchmark score is a testament to the high performance and scalability of NEC server products.

Sources:

NEC Solutions (America), Inc. Press Release, April 7, 2004.
Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) Source, http://www.tpc.org/.

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