Unisys ES7000 slashes high-performance computing costs to New Low according to TPC-C BenchmarkBlue Bell 12 September 2001 The cost of handling the hundreds of thousands of transactions typical of the busiest on-line enterprise operations has been slashed to unprecedented levels, according to the TPC-C benchmark, the industry's standard measure of computer power. Unisys now achieves 200 percent of the performance of any other Windows-based single server, becoming the only non-UNIX/RISC server in the single-system TPC-C Top Ten.
The benchmark proves that that the Unisys e-@ction Enterprise Server ES7000, merging mainframe-class computing characteristics with the cost advantages of industry-standard technologies, delivers a level of performance until now available only on costlier
UNIX/RISC-based systems or mainframes.
For enterprises, it means the removal of a key economic barrier to entering markets in which enabling many thousands of users to concurrently access and update very large databases is a baseline requirement. Setting a new world record for a single server based on Microsoft
and Intel technology, the Unisys ES7000 achieved 141,138.44 transactions per minute (tpmC) at a cost per transaction of $23.84. The test was conducted using the Transaction Processing Council's "C" methodology for measuring on-line transaction processing (OLTP) performance.
The complete configuration will be available March 10, 2002; the ES7000 is available today. With this achievement, the Unisys ES7000 becomes the only server based on Microsoft and Intel technology, and the only server using 32-bit processors, on the top-ten list of non-clustered TPC-C performers.
The Unisys TPC-C Benchmark Ticker/Savings Calculator enables viewers to compare the TPC-C performance and price/performance ratings of competing high-end servers with those achieved by the Unisys ES7000. A broad array of Unisys ES7000 design features provide exceptionally efficient access to data, positioning the system as a high-performance, cost-effective database server for very high volume transaction processing. These features include unique directory-based cache consistency, fast crossbar communication paths, large third-level cache, and other accelerators that overcome latency, maximise scalability and increase system bandwidth.
The test configuration is based on a Unisys ES7000 with 32 Intel 900-MHz Pentium III Xeon processors, 64 Gbytes of memory and Giganet networking. The configuration includes Microsoft's forthcoming release of its Windows Datacenter Server Limited Edition operating system and
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition database with Service Pack 2.
The Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) server architecture on which the ES7000 is based is the only architecture available that takes advantage of the Microsoft operating system's ability to use 32 processors. This ability is particularly advantageous for enterprises relying on very large, transaction-oriented databases. It enables administrators to avoid the complexities, and associated costs, of splitting the database across multiple clustered servers.
The Unisys ES7000 is based on the Unisys Cellular MultiProcessing (CMP) server architecture, which provides an array of computing capabilities required for enterprise-class e-business computing,
capabilities that are well known to users of large-scale computers, but unprecedented in computing environments using Microsoft and Intel technology.
The ES7000 was designed for the power of Intel 64-bit Itanium processors. Using CMP's innovative partitioning capabilities, Itanium and Pentium III Xeon processors can run side-by-side within one
server. These and other advantages enable CMP-based servers to match the performance of UNIX systems in enterprise-class e-business and other critical applications at a fraction of the price.
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