That's one big, nasty TPC result from IBM
IBM posted a whopping TPC-C record a few days ago, more than triple Oracle's previous single server record & nearly triple Oracle's previous clustered server record.
They've achieved 3.2 million transactions per minute @ US$5.19 tpmC. The server cost US$16M, ran AIX 5L 5.3, DB2 UDB 8.2, 64x 1.9Ghz Power5 CPUs, 2Tb of RAM and and amazing number of disk spindles.
I checked out the IBM website for more info on Power5. It is a dual core chip, with technology they're branding "Hardware Multi-Threading" which I don't fully understand but it sure seems to fly. SQL Server once ran on Power architecture (c:
It's been a while since a large-scale SQL Server TPC benchmark was released. This new monster TPC benchmark seems like it will give IBM bragging rights for a while, but it'll be interesing to see what SQL 2005 can do once it gets closer to the "6 month prior to availability" TPC benchmarking criteria.