RE: subject: iSeries Legends

["Walden H. Leverich III" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I recall one TCP-C test run on a Wintel server farm of 32 "application"
>servers, plus 32 "database" servers.

For the clustered results, yes. For the non-clustered results the current
champ is a single machine (granted it had 64 processors) running SQL2K on
W2K3. 

>How often will you find a database divided across 32 boxes? 

Anytime you're in a clustered environment. The iSeries supports it rather
nicely too. I've never had a need to cluster in "real life" but I played
with partitioned tables on the iSeries a few years ago, they're rather cool.

-Walden

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-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan M. Andelin [mailto:nandelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 6:18 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: subject: iSeries Legends


> Um, TPC-C work for you? Lots of systems there
> with sub-second response times across thousands
> of users and multi-TERAbyte databases (including,
> um, uh, Windows machines <G>).
> -Walden

I recall one TCP-C test run on a Wintel server farm of 32 "application"
servers, plus 32 "database" servers.  Each database server was running an
individual instance of MS SQL Server.  How often will you find a database
divided across 32 boxes?  How about a benchmark showing the performance of a
couple hundred concurrently running applications and a single database?

Nathan M. Andelin
www.relational-data.com


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