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Great news for current Integrity rx4640 users!Customers who currently have HP Integrity rx4640 servers can upgrade those systems to the new dual-core processors when they become availableii. The upgrade is extremely simple: customers simply swap out their processors and update their firmware. Other system components (e.g., chassis, memory, IO, disk) remain unchanged. Consider also this good news: Oracle's recent pricing strategy favors HP Integrity servers contrasted with IBM systems: with this TPC-C performance plus Oracle Database pricing per core, customers are truly the winners! View an illustration of the pricing difference.
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| The full results are available on the TPC organization site. This benchmark demonstrates leadership price/performance for HP Integrity servers running HP-UX 11i. For example, it shows better price/performanceiii than: - Any TPC-C benchmark disclosed by IBM, Sun, Unisys, NEC, Bull, Fujitsu (and many other vendors) on any processor architecture (including x86) in the last two years. Specifically, this includes:
- Any TPC-C benchmark ever disclosed on IBM AIX or Sun Solaris,
- Any TPC-C benchmark ever disclosed on IBM Power or Sun SPARC architecture;
- Any previous HP-UX TPC-C benchmark on any architecture; This benchmark demonstrates leadership performance in many ways, includingiv : - Approximately 2.5 times better per-processor performance than Itanium® 2 in the same Integrity rx4640iv platform. Note that the new 200k tpm mark was achieved using half the number of processors needed to achieve 161K tpm with the Itanium® 2 processor.
- Better price/performance than all x86-based servers outside HP in all TPC-C benchmarks with over 100,000 tpmC.
- Better performance than any low-end 2-processor and/or 4-core platform.
- More specifically, IBM's best Power5 TPC-C price/performanceiv (tpmC) is $3.93 - over 30% more expensive for almost identical performance.
- IBM has published 3 TPC-C benchmarksiv using combinations of IBM AIX, Linux®, Oracle® Database, and DB2 running on 2-processor, 4-core IBM Power5 systems.
- HP's Integrity dual core rx4640 benchmark is faster than 2 of these 3 disclosuresiv and within ~1% of IBM's fastest disclosure with HP delivering about 30% better price/performance than that system.
- All three IBM disclosuresiv were conducted on partially populated mid-range IBM p570 platforms, NOT on the IBM P550 low-end platform, a system more equivalent to the HP Integrity rx4640.
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The Integrity rx4640 configuration used in this benchmark included these components: - zx1 chip set (400 MHz)
- 2 Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor 9000 1.6GHz/24MB processors (4 cores)
- 128 GB memory
- Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition
- HP-UX 11i v2
- BEA Tuxedo 8.0 software
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As defined on the tpc.org website, TPC-C simulates a complete computing environment where a population of users executes transactions against a database. The benchmark is centered on the principal activities (transactions) of an order-entry environment. These transactions include entering and delivering orders, recording payments, checking the status of orders, and monitoring the level of stock at the warehouses. While the benchmark portrays the activity of a wholesale supplier, TPC-C is not limited to the activity of any particular business segment, but, rather represents any industry that must manage, sell, or distribute a product or service.
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HP plans are subject to change without notice.
i TPC-C benchmark published for HP Integrity rx4640 with 200,829 tpmC, $2.75/tpmC, availability date: 9/1/06.
ii HP plans to make Intel® Itanium® 2 Processor 9000 dual core upgrades available starting in September for these currently available HP Integrity servers: rx2620, rx4640, rx7620, rx8620 and Superdome servers. Additional models will also be available in September, with more upgrades and models coming shortly thereafter.
iii See TPC-C results from all participating vendors at www.tpc.org. Benchmark results as of March 28, 2006:
| System |
Performance |
# Server Processors/ Cores/Threads |
Price Performance |
Availability Date |
Submittal Date |
| HP Integrity rx4640, Montecito |
200,829.00 |
2/4/8 |
$2.75/tpmC |
09/01/2006 |
03/09/2006 |
| IBM eServer p5 570 4P |
203,439.87 |
4/4/4 |
$3.93/tpmC |
10/17/2005 |
10/17/2005 |
| Unisys ES7000 Enterprise Server (8P) |
347,854.00 |
8/16/32 |
$3.28/tpmC |
05/05/2006 |
02/22/2006 |
| NEC Express5800/1160Xe (8 SMP) |
254,471.00 |
8/8/8 |
$5.32/tpmC |
02/17/2006 |
01/18/2006 |
| Bull NovaScale 5080 C/S |
175,366.24 |
8/8/8 |
$4.53/tpmC |
06/30/2004 |
06/30/2004 |
| Fujitsu |
No result submitted within last 2 years |
| Sun |
No result submitted within last 2 years | |
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iv Benchmark results as of March 28, 2006: |
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| System |
Performance |
# Server Processors/ Cores/Threads |
Price Performance |
Availability Date |
Submittal Date |
| HP Integrity rx4640, Montecito |
200,829.00 |
2/4/8 |
$2.75/tpmC |
09/01/2006 |
03/09/2006 |
| HP Integrity rx4640 Madison 9m |
161,217.40 |
4/4/4 |
$3.94/tpmC |
12/07/2004 |
11/08/2004 |
| IBM eServer p5 570 4P |
194,391.43 |
4/4/4 |
$5.62/tpmC |
09/30/2004 |
07/12/2004 |
| IBM eServer p5 570 4p Spec |
197,669.00 |
4/4/4 |
$3.93/tpmC |
02/07/2006 |
08/08/2005 |
| IBM eServer p5 570 |
203,439.87 |
4/4/4 |
$3.93/tpmC |
10/17/2005 |
10/17/2005 | | |
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