tpc-c Resources

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TPC-C: A benchmark that measures overall transaction processing performance. See TPC.; Full TPC-C Definition >>

The purloined benchmark: Last Wednesday I challenged Windows proponents to demonstrate a metric not based on market share which when fairly applied showed an advantage for Windows over Unix. Nobody took me up on it, but frequent contributor "ShadeTree" suggested that Windows would win with metrics based...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Performance, Memory, Server, Larry Pedigo, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, UNIX, Open Source, Software, Paul Murphy; Blog posts 2008-04-08
Intel rolls out new server, high-end PC chip lineup; Green arms race heats up: Intel has rolled out a new lineup of 16 server and high-end PC processors that sport a new transistor design that saves energy, eliminates lead and halogen materials. These chips were expected and Intel delivered right on schedule. The chips, known as Penryn, is Intel's first to be designed...; Tags: PC Processor, Performance, Server, Intel Corp., Chip, HP Proliant DL380 G5 Server, Performance Management, Semiconductors, Network Technology, Processors, Servers, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Hardware, Networking, Components, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2007-11-12
Sun's new servers get intimate with Intel and Microsoft: John Fowler Executive VP Sun Microsystems announced a pair of new Servers yesterday at Sun's head quarters in Menlo Park California. Fowler showed off one of the servers last week at Intel IDF in San Francisco an posed with Pat Gelsinger standing on the left in picture to the left...; Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Server, Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp., HPC, Servers, Hardware, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-27
AMD: Is closing the quad-core deficit enough?: AMD kicked off the "premier" of their latest microprocessor offering with a launch party at the Herbst International Exhibit Hall Monday night. Partners like VMware, HP, Dell, Sun, Oracle, IBM, Microsoft and others were on hand or were there by video link to celebrate the launch of AMD's single-die quad-core...; Tags: Processor, Performance, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, SPECjbb2005, FBDIMM, Scott Wasson, Performance Management, Processors, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components, George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-12
Will AMD Barcelona kill off high-margin AMD CPUs?: AMD was riding high a year ago dominating sales in the dual-processor Server market and virtually owned the multi-processor (4+) Server market. Then Intel launched the Core Micro-architecture on the desktop and dual-processor Server market and momentum swung from AMD to Intel overnight in both of...; Tags: Processor, Quad-core, Barcelona, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., CPU, Intel Corp., George Ou; Blog posts 2007-09-08

Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core server: Sun packs big bang in tiny 2U Intel 7300 16-core serverIsn't that where Intel's solution falls down?16 cores all competing for the same FSB?AMD's press release pointed out that the memory intensive nature of VM's would prove the downfall of Intel's approach of adding more and more cores onto a...; Tags: Network technology, Processors, Sun UltraSPARC T2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Intel Corp., SPECint_rate2006, FSB, T2, tiny 2U Intel 7300, server; Discussion threads 2007-09-06
Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price list: Intel Tigerton and AMD Barcelona price listwhat about 2XXX BarcelonaWhy dont you show the entire list ?,WOW AMD by all estimates will dominate, I cant believe you said that! Make sure the PPW is with power saving ONAMD silences quad-core criticshttp://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195086/amd-silences-barcelona-criticsAMD's "Estimated Benchmark Scorestm" are [i]EVIL![/i] X-(.AMD's clearly labeled "Estimated...; Tags: Performance management, IBM Corp., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., performance, Intel Corp.; Discussion threads 2007-09-06
Conflict-Aware Load-Balancing Techniques for Database Replication: Middleware-based database replication protocols require few or no changes in the database engine. Thus, they are more portable and flexible than kernel-based protocols, but have coarser-grain information about transaction access data, resulting in reduced concurrency and increased aborts. This paper proposes conflict-aware load-balancing techniques to increase the concurrency and reduce...; Tags: Technique, Aware, Middleware, Replication, Storage, Productivity, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management; White papers 2007-08-27
HP-UX 11i TCP/IP Performance: The HP-UX Networking Stack is especially engineered and tested for optimum performance in an enterprise mission-critical environment. HP-UX 11i v3 exhibits excellent performance on NFS server performance and in the TPC-C benchmark, a measurement of intensive online transaction processing OLTP in a database environment. This white paper is intended as...; Tags: HP-UX, Hewlett-Packard Co., Performance, Environment, Oracle11i, OLTP, HP-UX Networking Stack, Performance Management, UNIX, Operating Systems, Databases, Servers, Networking, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management, Hardware; White papers 2007-08-01
Sell magic: Every once in a while I get credible seeming "deepthroat" e-mail -unfortunately these aren't always completely right, as witness this report last January from an Apple insider saying that the iPhone's application processor would be a PPC enabled core made by Samsung. Although he may have been completely right...; Tags: Sun, Hardware, Enterprise Policy; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Beyond AMD's Barcelona hype - the fine print: Theres been hearing a lot of hype lately coming from AMD about Barcelona and its been regurgitated throughout the web. Even though no actual benchmarks were released, some of the following outrageous promises are being made."We expect across a wide variety of workloads for Barcelona to outperform Clovertown by...; Tags: Servers, AMD, Processors, News, Intel, Hardware, Energy efficiency, Desktop; Blog posts 2007-04-25
Intel's Nehalem processor: Biggest leap since the Pentium Pro: Intel's Nehalem processor: Biggest leap since the Pentium ProMan, Intel just keeps dumping on AMDGlad I don't have any AMD stock...Yet another vaporware 'release'...Intel is yet again trying to freeze the market in anticipation of losing more market share in the 4 socket market. Octal core? They keep...; Tags: Processors, Intel Pentium, Intel Core Duo, Intel Corp., memory controller, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., integrated memory controller, IMC, Intel Nehalem, processor, Intel Pentium Pro; Discussion threads 2007-03-28
AMD versus Intel: CPU wars roadmap: Intel announced the next revolution in Microprocessor fabrication by replacing Silicon Dioxide gates with High-K dielectric metal gates. Microprocessor industry analyst David Kanter who contributed a lot of the information in this piece had this in-depth analysis on what this means for Intel and AMD. I spoke with...; Tags: Advanced Micro Devices Inc., AMD, Desktop, Hardware, Intel Corp., News, Processors, Servers; Blog posts 2007-01-30
AMD needs a trip to Barcelona: AMD needs a trip to BarcelonaWhat have you done THIS quarter ??It never hurts to take a longer-term view of fundamental technologies which affect the way enterprises run. Focusing on who wins the TPC-C benchmarks is a little shortsighted, PARTICULARLY when 90% of all servers are running at 10%...; Tags: Databases, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-01-24
ZFS, HW RAID, and expensive mis-apprehensions: Last week frequent contributor _dietrich drew everyones attention to a piece by Timothy Morgan comparing various low to mid range Unix and Windows servers from a "bang for the buck" perspective. Its an interesting piece of work and one I wish Id done despite Morgans politically...; Tags: Sun Solaris, Operating systems, Performance management, Servers, duck, Unix, TPC/C, acronym, Sun Microsystems Inc., performance, server; Blog posts 2006-12-20
Niagara2 - will blow away SQL-Server Clusters: Once upon a time, and in a lab far far away, there was a little machine rejoicing in the name of "atchewi". Atchewi lived for throughput, and as a result I started predicting that a single 1.4Ghz UltraSPARC T1 would offer rough performance equivelance, for non floating point intensive...; Tags: T1, Niagara2, performance, Intel Xeon; Blog posts 2006-12-11
Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figure: Microsoft beats Sun on TPC? Go figureMore perspective on TPC-CAt my blog:http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/11/08/tpc-c-result-proves-db2-is-better-than-oracle-with-asm/; Tags: TPC, Go Figure, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-11-08
Never mind Dempsey, here's the Woodcrest numbers: Never mind Dempsey, here's the Woodcrest numbersIts up to the Software Developers - Java ShinesIt was only 10 years ago when folks who were concerned about the quality of software coding first layed out the API specification, language and virtual machine specification we know as Java.Java was developed in anticipation...; Tags: Programming languages, Processors, Plan-A, Intel Corp., Java, Woodcrest, multi-core, Dempsey, HP DL385; Discussion threads 2006-05-23
The performance debate: Linux vs Windows: The performance debate: Linux vs WindowsNo-ax is a shillI believe a paid shill, probably buried in one of MSFT's PR contracts and gets more attention than he deserves for technical issues. At least George is honest about his bias and background. A lot of these technical benchmarks amount...; Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Databases, performance, No-Ax, Windows System, Microsoft Windows, price/tpmC, MSFT, Paul Murphy, Unix system; Discussion threads 2006-01-26
The performance debate: Linux vs Windows: My January 13th blog To beat Linux: scam the customer drew quite a lot of talkback comments. One of the themes there was fired off by a comment from No-Ax-To-Grind to the effect that the Linux community is somehow afraid of a direct performance comparison against Microsoft. I'm pretty sure...; Tags: SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows; Blog posts 2006-01-26