Unisys 8-Way world`s fastest Intel-Based SMP System

Blue Bell 20 Oct 99 Unisys Corporation claims the Aquanta ES5085R eight-processor server achieved the fastest online transaction processing (OLTP) performance ever recorded for an Intel-based symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) server. The Aquanta ES5085R achieved 40,670.05 transactions per minute.

The Aquanta ES5085R achieved 40,670.05 transactions per minute (tpmC) in the test, which was conducted using the Transaction Processing Council's "C " methodology, the industry's standard measure of OLTP performance. The price per transaction was $18.42/tpmC, which is the best OLTP price/performance for any eight-processor server. Pricing is based on data posted on the TPC web site, www.tpc.org.

This compares, for example, to TPC-C test results for the Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model N4000 Enterprise Server (available on July 31, 1999), which delivered 49,308 tpmC at a price per transaction of $56.67 -- over three times the price of the Unisys Aquanta ES5085R server. The Unisys configuration as tested will be available on December 31, 1999. The hardware is available now.

The Aquanta ES5085R server, which ran Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 operating system and SQL Server 7.0 database, was equipped with eight 550-MHz Intel Pentium III Xeon processors with 2 Mbytes of Level 2 cache.

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