Linux Benchmarking

[Taavi Burns]

On 8/19/05, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>  Anyways, back to that spec sheet.  It was documenting a system used for
> some Itanium/Linux-based database benchmark that got some pretty good
> numbers.  The machine was pretty expensive, and the specs seemed sensible,
> until you got to the fine print at the end where they mentioned the number
> of 15K RPM SCSI disks required to accomplish the benchmark.  If memory
> serves, it was 112 disks.

Only 112?  Pfft.  That's nothing.

http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_result_detail.asp?id=104111801

It had 6400 36.4GB 15krpm FC disks, 140 73.4GB 15krpm FC disks, and 8
36.4GB 15krpm  SCSI.  That puppy had 90 FC PCI-X adapters. :)

The 6400 disks accounted for $7 136 000 of the total system cost, beat
only by the cost of 2TB or RAM: $8 912 896.

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