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Microsoft Resubmits New TPC-C Benchmarks
Microsoft gets better results on TCP-C, but not enough to unseat IBM, which remains at top spot.
In a report filed by
ENT Magazine Editor Scott Bekker, Microsoft today
resubmitted a new set of server performance benchmark
numbers, which were the result of fallout following
the unveiling of the original benchmark numbers at the
Windows 2000 launch. The Transaction Processing
Council, an industry group that oversees the
performance benchmark testing, says the original
numbers for its online transaction processing
performance benchmark, the TPC-C, were flawed and
thus were disqualified late last month.
Microsoft announced that it had rerun the tests
and once again had audited performance benchmarks
posted on the TPC site at http://www.tpc.org. The
announcement came at a meeting of financial
analysts where Microsoft discussed SQL Server.
The company achieved the record in February with
Windows 2000 Advanced Server and pre-release code
of SQL Server 2000 on a cluster of Compaq ProLiant
8-processor servers. For the resubmission, Microsoft
and Compaq chose to rerun the original systems with
their 550 MHz Pentium III Xeon processors for a slight
gain in performance over the original results. The
companies then ran the benchmark on the systems using
the 700 MHz Xeons Intel Corp. released recently. The
four rerun benchmarks now hold positions two through
five on the TPC raw performance list.
The resubmitted numbers from Microsoft and Compaq
improve upon the February results, but remain far
behind what IBM achieved earlier this month. To see
the results, and to view a more detailed report of
the TPC tests, see Scott Bekker's article at
http://www.entmag.com/breaknews.asp?ID=3045.