NEC Express5800 Server meets significant

NEC Corporation has announced that its recently released Intel Xeon-based “NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server” achieved the fastest performance on the TPC-E benchmark.

The world record performance, 1,400 tpsE (transactions-per-second in TPC-E), achieved by the NEC Express5800/A1160, outperforms the previous record by 12 percent and also has a 9 percent improvement in price performance at $1,190.24 USD/tpsE.

The NEC Express5800/A1160 features NEC server technology with an up-to-4-box-capable building block structure powered by the Intel Xeon X7460 processor and high speed interconnect “HSI technology.”

This industry-leading benchmark was achieved with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 running on the server hardware, which served as the database server, and NEC’s innovative Enterprise Modular Storage D3-10 functioning as the database storage system.

The Performance Results for the server are drawn below:

Throughput : 1,400.00 tpsE
Price/Performance : $1,190.24/tpsE
Availability Date : December 31, 2008

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