Compaq Achieves Record Low in Price-Performance Benchmark

Compaq Wednesday said it had published a Transaction Processing Performance Council benchmark price is lower than the threshold 5 yuan per transaction.

TPC - C test for online transaction processing applications is the most closely watched industry-standard benchmark test system capacity and cost.

This year, most of the time, Compaq, Dell and IBM have been battling over the position as the seller in each transaction to provide the lowest cost.

The platform of choice for all three vendors trying to set a low-cost per transaction records, it is a standard Windows 2000 server running SQL Server 2000 and COM + components as a transaction monitoring.

Last year, the number is a 10 yuan each transaction. However, a new TPC specifications that all suppliers to improve the price performance, and several vendors have been competing in the 8-yuan / transaction contest.

IBM announced the results of the 5.39 US dollars on Monday.

Compaq with a processor in their systems, which handle transactions in 9347, the cost of one minute 4.83 US dollars each. IBMs use of the three processors, Post 20442 to 5.39 US dollars for each transaction. Compaq unlike single-processor system, all other systems currently in the TPC - C price performance, the former 10 are 3-8 processor database server.