Compaq ProLiant 8500 sets new TPC-C record configured as a 6-way server

Reinforcing its ProLiant "eGeneration" strategy to deliver significant increases in performance, reliability and scalability on industry standards-based solutions, Compaq Computer Corporation today announced a new TPC-C record on a six-processor ProLiant 8500 server.

This represents the best performance and price/performance ever achieved on a standards-based six-way server. The benchmark reported results of 33,617.40 transactions per minute (tpmC) with a price/performance of $12.91/tpmC while running Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition and Windows NT.

For more details on this benchmark, please visit Compaq`s Web site at: http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/benchmarks/index.html Testing Initiatives Designed to Support Customer ERP Implementations The new TPC-C benchmark on the ProLiant 8500 reinforces Compaq`s ability to provide customers with breakthrough enterprise economics in a standards-based environment. The Compaq Profusion architecture is designed to scale with demanding ERP applications as a customer`s business grows.