Windows .NET, Xeon MP High-End Benchmark
ENT News | at | by Mike
Leveraging Windows .NET Datacenter Server beta code and Intel's new Xeon MP chips, IBM used the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark to demonstrate impressive performance on its funky new eight-processor servers. The benchmark, published last week, was the first test showing the performance of Intel's new Xeon MP chips on a system with more than four processors.
The x440 also held its own against eight-processor midrange RISC systems from IBM and Bull, both running IBM's AIX operating system. The eServer x440 reached 92,398 transactions per minute on the TPC-C benchmark (tpmC), which is third behind the 105,025 tpmC result achieved with both IBM's eServer pSeries 660 and the Bull Escala PL800R. The Unix benchmarks were published last September.