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IBM (News - Alert) Power System is capable of delivering almost four times the performance per processor core of an HP ProLiant server, said an announcement from the company Thursday.

 

The new comparison was made based on a recent Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC-C) benchmark result, which states that the IBM Power 570 server with POWER6 processor technology and AIX, the IBM version of UNIX operating system, performed 3.8 times faster than the HP ProLiant MODEL running the new Intel (News - Alert) Dunnington processor and Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition.

 

IBM announced the benchmark results at the IBM Power Systems Customer Council meeting in East Fishkill, New York, the home of IBM's state-of-the-art 300mm semiconductor manufacturing and development facility.

 

"Our Power Systems are an excellent example of how the hardware, software and microprocessor are all integrated together to produce maximum results for our clients," said Scott Handy, vice president of worldwid1e marketing and strategy, IBM Power Systems.

 

IBM Power 570 also bested the Dell (News - Alert) PowerEdge900, the Sun X4450 and the Fujitsu Primergy RX600, all running Dunnington, by 2.2 times per processor core, the company said.

 

Launched in May 2007, IBM System Power 570 with POWER 6 technology leverages the chip’s many breakthroughs in energy conservation and virtualization technology. The POWER6 chip has a total cache size of 8MB per chip – four times the POWER5 chip – to keep pace with the remarkable processor bandwidth. 

 

IBM System Power 570 is the first single system to hold all four benchmark speed records for business and technical performance. It claimed the No.1 spots in the four most widely used performance benchmarks for Unix servers – SPECint2006 (measuring integer-calculating speed common in business applications), SPECfp2006 (measuring floating point-calculating speed required for scientific applications), SPECjbb2005 (measuring Java performance in business operations per second) and TPC-C (measuring transaction processing capability).

 

“The performance of POWER6 processors, combined with PowerVM virtualization and the newly-announced Systems Director 6.1 management for IBM Power Systems, help businesses increase efficiency while reducing operating costs and energy consumption in the data center,” said Handy. “HP, Sun and Dell all like to claim leadership, but the fact remains that even while our competitors are using some of the latest Intel processors, the comparisons to the IBM POWER6 processor come up short.”

 

IBM Power Systems claim leadership in more than 70 key computing performance benchmarks, IBM said.