sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sunflash@suntri sunflash-Send requests and problem reports to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash NEW SUN DEPARTMENTAL SERVER DELIVERS LEADING TPC-A PRICE/PERFORMANCE SunFLASH Vol 53 #12 May 1993 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact: Leiann Lee, SMCC PR, +1 (415) 336-0597 Contact: Zach Nelson, Oracle Corporation ,+1 (415) 506-7000 High-End MP Server Performance with PC Server Pricing MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - May 11, 1993 - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) and Oracle Corporation today reported new results of the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark A (TPC-A) that demonstrate the industry's best departmental server performance and price/performance on a leading RDBMS. The eight-processor model of SMCC's new SPARCserver(TM) 1000 system running the ORACLE7 Cooperative Server delivered 400.80 transactions per second (tpsA) and price/performance of $5,987 per tpsA, beating out all other RISC multiprocessor (MP) servers. SMCC's new SPARCserver 1000 is a compact desktop departmental server that can be configured with up to eight SuperSPARC(TM) processors in an SMP environment. No other server is available today in this price class that delivers the level of database performance of the SPARCserver 1000. Similar database performance from other major UNIX(R) computer vendors such as DEC, HP and IBM is available only in data center-class machines at up to 10 times the price. In addition, even PC-class servers like the Compaq Systempro/XL deliver less than half the performance of the SPARCserver 1000 at similar prices. These are the first TPC-A results for systems using the Solaris(R) 2 symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) operating environment and multiple SuperSPARC processors. The Solaris 2 SMP environment allows users to achieve new performance milestones when working with relational database management systems. Additionally, the multi-threaded architecture of the Solaris 2 environment allows for better scaling of database application performance on Sun(TM) SMP systems. "With these results, the SPARCserver1000 demonstrates the commercial viability of SuperSPARC and Solaris 2, in that it is highly suited for demanding transaction processing environments," said Larry Hambly, vice president of marketing at SMCC. "Many of our customers in areas such as telemarketing, order processing and customer service have exactly these types of OLTP requirements." These results are yet another example of excellent DBMS results from a Sun system running ORACLE7. The two companies have been close partners for many years, working together to tune their respective products. Recently, Sun SPARC(R) systems were chosen as the workstation development platform for next-generation ORACLE database products. In addition, Sun Microsystems is using Oracle Manufacturing and Financial applications running ORACLE7 for automating its worldwide manufacturing and distribution facilities. "ORACLE7, combined with the outstanding performance of the SPARCserver 1000 and Solaris 2, is unique in delivering exceptional performance scalability at the lowest possible prices," said Joseph Vassallo, vice president of the Sun Products Division at Oracle. "This record-setting benchmark reconfirms the fact that ORACLE7 is, by far, the world's fastest database on Sun, currently holding the Transaction Processing Performance Council Benchmark-A record ." The recent benchmark tested an eight-way SPARCserver 1000 system, supporting a network of 4,020 terminals connected to eight SPARCserver 10 front-end application servers running ORACLE7. TPC-A, the TPC's first benchmark approved in November 1989, is representative of on-line transaction processing (OLTP) environments. TPC-A is a complete system benchmark and simulates an environment in which multiple users, using terminals, PCs, or workstations, are accessing and updating a common database over a local or wide area network. # # # Sun Microsystems, Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, Sun, the Sun logo, the Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation logo, and Solaris are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC trademarks, including the SCD Compliant Logo, are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. SPARCserver and SuperSPARC are licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. 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