On December 15th I blogged a short analysis of a fresh IBM System x 3950 TPC-C result with DB2 and how it compared to a result with the same software stack published on September 19th, 2006. Something went haywire in that analysis. The TPC spreadsheet I was viewing had the result posted at 311,087 TpmC [...]
I’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before
Today IBM published a TPC-C result of 311,087 TpmC with the System x 3950 using DB2 ESE 9. The System x product line is very deep. The 3950 is particularly interesting because it is has shipped with two of the Tulsa family of Intel Xeon processors—the 7140N and 7150N. [...]