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IBM ICES Competition with Record-Breaking Linux Database Performance; DB2 ICE Delivers Top Cluster Performance for the Price of a Single System

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2005

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For more information regarding these results and SAP benchmarks, visit www.sap.com/benchmark.> (1) IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2 on 64 IBM eServer xSeries 346 (INTEL EM64 XXX GHz) running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Metrics: 53451.4 QphH for a $33 per QphH Availability date: Feb 14, 2005

(2) IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2 on a 4-way IBM eServer OpenPower 720 (POWER5 1.65 GHz) running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Metrics: 6357 QphH@100GB and $42 per QphH@100GB; Available: 12/15/04.

(3) IBM DB2 Universal Database v8.2 on a cluster of two 4-way IBM eServer OpenPower 720's (POWER5 1.65 GHz) running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Metrics: 12006 QphH@300GB and $40 per QphH@300GB; Available: 12/15/04.

(4) IBM DB2 UDB Express Edition v8.2 on IBM eServer xSeries 346 (Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz) running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Metrics: 1894 QphH @ 100GB and $14/QphH @ 100GB; Available: 12/14/04

(5) This benchmark fully complies with the SAP Benchmark Council regulations and has been audited and certified by SAP AG (certification number 2004074). Details can be obtained from IBM and SAP. The benchmark was performed at Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA, by IBM engineers.

(6) IBM DB2 UDB Express Edition v8.2 on IBM eServer xSeries 346 (Intel Xeon 3.6 GHz) running SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9; Metrics: 1894 QphH @ 100GB and $14/QphH @ 100GB; Available: 12/14/04

(7) The following description is an excerpt from SPEC's April 2004 press release announcing SPECjAppServer2004: The Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC) released SPECjAppServer2004, a new benchmark that measures the performance of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) application servers. SPECjAppServer2004 is a completely new benchmark and not comparable to SPEC J2EE benchmarks released in late 2002. It includes a modified workload and features that stress more of the capabilities of J2EE 1.3 or later application servers. The intent of this benchmark is to provide a level playing field on which to test and compare the latest J2EE hardware and software platforms. Performance is measured in SPECjAppServer2004 by a metric called JOPS (jAppServer Operations per Second). The metric is derived by adding the operations per second in the dealer domain to the work orders per second in the manufacturing domain.