PANTA Systems Sets Industry Record TPC-H One Terabyte Clustered Benchmark Result Running Oracle with Linux

Business Wire, Oct 25, 2006

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- PANTA Systems, an emerging leader in enterprise computing technology, published a new record-setting TPC-H One Terabyte (TB) benchmark running Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with Linux1. This is both the fastest and best price/performance TPC-H One TB result for clustered environments.

The benchmark employed an 8-node PANTAmatrix with PANTA's native InfiniBand storage, and achieved a record-breaking performance of 59,353.9 QphH@1000GB with a price-performance ratio of $24.94/QphH@1000GB.

"The PANTAmatrix platform delivers superior performance, scalability and reliability for large data warehouses through its massive I/O capacity and high performance, cost-effective scale-out storage," said Fred van den Bosch, CEO, PANTA Systems. "This benchmark shows that PANTAmatrix running Oracle Database10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters provides comparable performance at a fraction of the cost of high-end UNIX-based systems, and presents an extremely attractive alternative to proprietary data warehouse appliances."

About TPC-H

TPC-H is a decision support benchmark consisting of a suite of business oriented ad-hoc queries and concurrent data modifications. The performance metric is called the TPC-H Composite Query-per-Hour Performance Metric (QphH@Size) and reflects multiple aspects of the capability of the system to process queries. More information is available at http://www.tpc.org.

About PANTA Systems

Based in Santa Clara, California, PANTA Systems was founded in 2002 to deliver a new class of system capabilities that maximize performance and reduce costs using industry-standard technologies. PANTA Systems offers the first server platform to combine industry leading off-the-shelf technology to provide a highly scalable, dynamically configurable, and power efficient x86-architecture based computer system.

The company's PANTAmatrix platform delivers industry leading performance with a modular, flexible, scalable architecture that can be reconfigured dynamically to meet the specific requirements of applications in a wide range of markets. Customers include Grand Sierra, Telcordia, CSC-DICE, and Stanford University. For more information visit www.pantasys.com.

note 1: The configuration is built with four Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 800 2.2 GHz processors running Linux, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with InfiniBand and SilverStorm RDS, 59,353.9 QphH@1000GB, $24.94/QphH@1000GB, which will be commercially available on April 15, 2007.

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