27 June 2008

Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ Primergy TX300 server has set a new world record for efficiency in online transaction processing (OLTP), shaving 25 per cent off the industry standard benchmark for OLTP in the efficiency bracket.

The TPC Benchmark E (TPC-E) is a new OLTP workload developed by the Transaction Performance Council (TPC), a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks. The test is based on portraying the activity of a brokerage firm, with workload centred on the activity of processing brokerage trades.

The new world record is one of the first benchmarks to be achieved using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – available from 30 August 2008 – with the Primergy TX300 S4. Lab results validate the server’s performance when coupled with SQL Server 2008, putting the industry-standard server straight into the top spot in the TPC-E price/performance tables.

Benchmark tests produced a result of 317.45 tpsE – the number of transactions per second the server can sustain over a period of time – and a price per tpsE of US$523.49, 25 per cent lower than the second-placed system.

“Our customers benefit directly from our investment in extensive testing in our benchmarking laboratories,” said Jens-Peter Seick, vice president of the enterprise server business at Fujitsu Siemens Computers. “Our focus on fine-tuning systems ensures that Primergy servers deliver their best performance in the real world. The new TPC benchmark provides independent validation of our leadership in an area that is very important to data centre managers and financial controllers alike: the industry’s best price-per-transaction figures.”

Tests were carried out in Fujitsu Siemens Computers’ benchmarking laboratories in Paderborn, Germany, under certified TPC conditions. The results were achieved with a Primergy TX300 S4 server running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise x64 Edition, with 64GB RAM, and some 188 SAS 3Gb/s 73GB hard drives.

Full details of the test results are available on the TPC Web site.