Windows Server 2003 atop scalability heap
ENT News | at | by Mike
In advance of the formal launch of Windows Server 2003 on Thursday, Microsoft and NEC posted record-setting results on the most important independent scalability benchmark in the industry on Wednesday.
Together the companies, using a 32-processor NEC server running 64-bit Itanium 2 processors with 64-bit versions of SQL Server 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition, broke the record for raw performance in the Transaction Processing Performance Council's OLTP benchmark, the TPC-C.
The result was a 13 percent improvement over the previous best -- a combination of Fujitsu hardware and the Solaris operating system that had stood since August 2001. The NEC/Microsoft result came at about a third the cost of the Fujitsu/Solaris result.