HP Announces First Linux Cluster TPC-C Benchmark with Oracle and Red Hat

Enterprise Linux Today ^ | Sep 16, 2002

[Knitebane]

HP today announced that HP ProLiant servers have delivered the first Linux TPC-C benchmark results running Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters on the Red Hat Linux Advanced Server operating system. With this benchmark, HP ProLiant servers become the first industry-standard server platform to offer enterprise-class performance for a clustered Oracle database in a Linux environment.

Demonstrating the cost and maintenance benefits of running Linux-based hardware and software in enterprise-operating environments, an 8-node cluster of HP ProLiant DL580 servers using Intel® Pentium® III Xeon processors and HP StorageWorks MSA1000 storage system achieved 138,362.03 tpmC (transactions per minute) at a cost of $17.21/tpmC with Red Hat Linux Advanced Server.

TPC is a non-profit corporation founded to define transaction processing and database benchmarks and to disseminate objective, verifiable TPC performance data to the industry.

The results demonstrate that HP ProLiant servers currently offer the best price/performance ratio for companies choosing to deploy Oracle9i Real Application Clusters on Linux. Complete benchmark results and details are available at .

"HP is committed to working with leading partners, including Oracle and Red Hat, to bring proven, enterprise-ready deployment solutions for Linux to market," said Rick Becker, vice president, Operating System Alliances, and chief technology officer of software, HP Industry Standard Servers.

"Benchmark testing of this caliber requires commitment, experience and considerable resources -- all of which HP is dedicated to providing to validate Linux-based solutions for our industry-standard ProLiant servers.

The results of the benchmark prove that HP delivers one of the most cost-effective, high-performance, and manageable Linux-based database solutions available today."

"With Linux demonstrating that it's an attractive enterprise computing option, companies are looking to deploy proven applications for Linux," said Doug Kennedy, vice president, Platform Alliance, Platform Technologies Division, Oracle Corporation. "Through our strong engineering partnership with HP and extensive testing of our combined solutions, Oracle can now deliver our flagship database solutions on industry-standard HP ProLiant servers running Red Hat Linux Advanced Server with the same levels of reliability, scalability and performance enterprises have come to rely on from other operating systems."

"The benchmark on HP ProLiant servers demonstrates that Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is ready for robust, high-performance, highly available, enterprise-level applications," said Paul Cormier, executive vice president of engineering, Red Hat. "Red Hat will continue to work with leading partners, including HP and Oracle, to test and demonstrate the viability of running enterprise-ready applications on Red Hat Linux Advanced Server."

HP parallel database cluster solutions for Oracle 9i Real Application Clusters on Red Hat will be available soon as fully pre-installed solutions (hardware, software and installation included) via HP integration partners or as a custom-designed solution direct from HP.

HP has more servers certified for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server than any other technology provider. Information about additional HP ProLiant servers certified for Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is available at http://hardware.redhat.com/hcl/.

[Knitebane]

$17.21/tpmC which puts them right at number 5 with thier very first Linux entry.

I find it notable that it beats out the Windows 2K offering running on identical hardware.

The last bastions of Microsoft benchmarks are falling in front of the Linux competition.

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Got root?

[KC Burke]

What personal computer company is selling a OEM linux based desktop with a suite of applications compatible to the linux OS?

[stainlessbanner]

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is ready for robust, high-performance, highly available, enterprise-level applications,"

Could you throw some more management buzzwords in there?

Thanks for the ping - good news for open source!

[rdb3]

I'm not quite sure what you mean.

[Michael Barnes]

yummmmm.....

[ShadowAce]

Try out this link.

[KC Burke]

You had posted:
Wanna be penquinfied? Jus holler...

While I know I can buy a stripped machine and add item by item the Linux system and some linux based software, I am unaware of any OEM that is selling it whole, pre-loaded. Are you aware of such a pairing?

[james_hayes]

How about Dell.

[ShadowAce]

Check out post #7. It's got tons

[rdb3]

I know that there is a hardware company contracted with Lindows that does this. I'm not aware of any others.

[KC Burke]

thanks for the link, and you are right, there are now plenty of hardware systems pre-bundled.

[jbstrick]

Cool. We'e got a cluster here at work. I think we are above 200 nodes now.

[stainlessbanner]

Is this a trick question? < /grin>

[Bush2000]

I find it notable that it beats out the Windows 2K offering running on identical hardware. The last bastions of Microsoft benchmarks are falling in front of the Linux competition

LMFAO! Look at the top 3, troll: Win2K and SQL 2000.

[Bush2000]

Before you get too euphoric, look at the top 4 and weep:

Rank	Company	System	tpmC	Price/tpmC	System Availability	Database	Operating System	TP Monitor	Date Submitted
1		ProLiant DL760-900-128P	410,769	13.02 US $	10/15/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	Microsoft COM+	09/19/01
2		ProLiant DL760-900-192P	567,882	14.04 US $	10/15/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	Microsoft COM+	09/19/01
3		ProLiant DL760-900-256P	709,220	14.96 US $	10/15/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Edition	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	Microsoft COM+	09/19/01
4		IBM eServer xSeries 370	136,766	16.93 US $	09/20/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000	Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	Microsoft COM+	04/24/01
5		HP ProLiant DL580-PDC 32P C/S	138,362	17.21 US $	03/05/03	Oracle 9i R2 Enterprise Edition	Red Hat Linux Advanced Server	BEA Tuxedo 8.0	09/16/02
6		HP ProLiant DL580-0200032P c/s	137,260	18.46 US $	06/04/02	Oracle 9i R2 Enterprise Edition	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	BEA Tuxedo 6.5 CTS	06/04/02
7		IBM e(logo) xSeries 370 c/s	440,879	19.35 US $	12/07/00	IBM DB2 UDB 7.1	Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server	Microsoft COM+	04/11/01
8		IBM e(logo) xSeries 370 c/s	363,129	21.80 US $	05/31/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000	Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	Microsoft COM+	04/10/01
9		IBM e(logo) xSeries 370 c/s	688,220	22.58 US $	05/31/01	Microsoft SQL Server 2000	Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server	Microsoft COM+	04/10/01

[Bush2000]

And another thing... look at the availability date: Next year!!!

[RightOnline]

You miss the point. Linux is NOT aimed at the general PC market.........either for the home user or even for the average "business" user. When it comes to Intel platforms (desktop, deskside), it IS aimed squarely at the TECHNICAL desktop (think "UNIX replacement") and is kicking major ass.

[RightOnline]

Nope. Not Dell. Servers and workstations only.

[Knitebane]

Wow! MS pulls a better score on faster hardware! Wow!

But running on identical hardware, Linux runs faster, as shown by the chart.

Gee, I wonder what will happen when they put Linux on the same hardware as the number one scoring system?

Nice spin attempt, but once again, your FUD doesn't stand up to the light of day.

Back into your crack, cockroach, the lightswitch is on.