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Benchmarketing again - this time: TPC-H 10 TB

Thursday, November 29. 2007

Wow, it´s benchmarketing time at IBM again. IBM Announces DB2 and POWER6 Combo Trounces HP and Sun by 2x and 3x Respectively in New Business Intelligence Benchmark. IBM you are soooo great .... you was able to beat our TPC-H 10 TB by a factor of 3. It´s really an technological archievement in 2007 to beat a TPC-H benchmark result generated on on 29th November 2005 ... exactly 2 years ago today. Come on ... in IT 2 years are a fscking long time ....

Everytime i read a benchmark from IBM, i really looking forward to read their disclosure to see, what you can do in benchmarking, when you have nearly unlimited resources.

The configuration of IBM consists out of: 32 p6 p570 servers, each server had 32 GB of memory, resulting in 1 TB memory. Each of the systems had 96 36 Gigabyte 15k harddisks with 4 GB/s FC. A whooping amount of 3072 harddisks. A fully 10 GB enabled network.

The SF25K result was done on 1296 disk, with 10k rounds with 2 GB/s. The memory had a size of 288 GB. On a single system with a single operating system image The system used the old UltraSPARC with 1.5 GHz

Not that you can´t buy an system from Sun equivalent system from IBM. The venerable SF25k now has up to 1.15 TB per domain. And the M9000 class servers are a completly different story. But,dear IBM,when you want to make a statement of relative performance, the system should be at least somewhat similar.

So dear IBM, next time you want to showcase you system, don´t do it against a benchmark 2 years old. What´s the statement of such a press announcement: We are 3 times faster with our top of the line system with a benchmarking configuration than a 2 years old configuration. Big deal, IBM, really big deal ...

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Sun/Oracle at 18:01 | Comments (6) | Trackback (1)

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IBM´s TPC-H claim revisted - or: Has IBM something to hide?
I thought a little bit about the TPC-H benchmark published by IBM yesterday. There is something in it, that leaves some question. The p570 is a 8 socket system. You can build it by stacking 4 two-socket boxes with some special cabling. That´s one of the p

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Das ist wie bei Versicherungen: Wer liest schon das Kleingedruckte?

#1 Patrick (Homepage) on 2007-11-29 20:35 (Reply)

Not to mention that the ibm systems is bound to be several times more expensive than the sun system.

#2 Mads (Homepage) on 2007-11-29 21:38 (Reply)

Oldest trick in the book - compare your current server to an old product of your competitors - or in this case, IBM compares 32 of their newest machines to only 1 2 year old machine from Sun. They must not be able to do the single system performance or compete against Sun's recent boxes.

#3 Jeff Savit (Homepage) on 2007-11-29 23:10 (Reply)

I agree: This trick is so old, it´s hard to believe they still use it. But: The untold story ist the more interesting part in benchmarking. And using 32 systems instead of 8 is the most interesting part.

#3.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-11-30 12:20 (Reply)

IBMs Marketing and $$$ can outperform everything in marketing live. When you spend 1 Billion on Marketing you can sell shit as pudding. It is still: never has onyone been fired because of buying IBM: hey guys it's time you get fired!!!! Be sure: opensource and Sun will give you all a hell of a fire, relaxing time is gone.

Just my 2 cents.

PS: Yes we have Sunsystems and these boxes work fine, and also yes: I bought Sunshares.

#4 köbes (Homepage) on 2007-11-29 23:58 (Reply)

Hmm, i think "nobody get´s fired for buying ibm" is not correct anymore. It´s more like "Nobody gets fired for x in a x shop". Nobody gets fired for buying IBM in an IBM shop (even it´s nonsensical, i had such a customer in the past, wo wanted to migrate to Linux on IBM Blades, come hell or high water) as well nobody gets fired for buying Sun in a Sun shop.

#4.1 Joerg (Homepage) on 2007-11-30 12:24 (Reply)

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