Hewlett-Packard starts shipment of SuperdomePalo Alto 03 January 2001 Hewlett-Packard announced that it has begun worldwide, volume shipments of its HP 9000 Superdome server. Unveiled in September, the high-end UNIX server is the world's most powerful, flexible and available UNIX computing platform, the company claims.
HP also announced initial benchmark performance results including
the world's highest assembly-to-order (ATO) standard application
benchmark, measuring the real-world demands of a typical
supply-chain management environment, and an outstanding TPC-C
benchmark, used to indicate on-line transaction processing speed.
The ATO benchmark is considered one of the industry's most
challenging performance evaluation tests, as it demonstrates a
server's capacity to process business transactions in an integrated
fashion as opposed to measuring isolated chains of processes or simply
counting total users. The benchmark is characterized by high-volume
sales, short production times and individual assembly per order.
The ATO standard application benchmark result of 16,480 fully
business-processed assembly orders per hour for SAP's mySAP.com
e-business solution establishes the high-end HP 9000 Superdome server
as the world's fastest platform for customers using mySAP.com. This
result nearly doubles IBM's p680 result of 8,570 assembly orders per
hour(2). This record performance was achieved with the combination of
Superdome's high-performance system design, superior memory latency,
flexible partitioning capabilities and the high-speed crossbar
architecture of the HP Surestore Disk Array XP512.
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