TPC-C Performance Brief

HP ProLiant DL385 G7 with AMD Opteron 6100 Series

processors achieves world record for 2-socket
price/performance on TPC-C benchmark
ProLiant servers give customers more value, performance for less cost
April 2010
Executive summary
The HP ProLiant servers have done it again – providing the lowest cost in performance – this time with the
new ProLiant DL385 G7. With 705,652tpmC @ $.58USD/tpmC, the ProLiant DL385 G7 took the number one,
two-socket result for price/performance on the TPC-C benchmark.
This price point was delivered by a system that, with AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors and DDR3 memory
options, provides a solution for real cost-effectiveness and high and fast performance for high throughput
environments.

Key Take Aways:

#1 2-socket price/performance
Result is in the TOP FIVE OVERALL for price/performance
HP holds NINE of the top TEN for 2-socket price/performance
Meets customers’ price requirements

What this means for customers

With the HP Converged Infrastructure as the building block for HP ProLiant servers, HP will simplify how
networks are built, managed, and secured to help clients reduce complexity, increase productivity, and use
more of their network capacity. By providing clients an open, standards-based choice to an industry that
previously had limited options, HP will breakthrough the deadlock that has driven decades of complexity and
rising costs. With this Converged Infrastructure solution and the latest generation of HP technology, the
ProLiant DL385 G7 with 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors presents a compelling business plan
that delivers the optimal balance of performance, energy efficiency, and value.
Business transformation with HP Converged Infrastructure: HP is at an inflection point where our
technology is coming together to help our clients build the data center of the future, and it will be based on
the Converged Infrastructure. HP is uniquely positioned to build the Converged Infrastructure because HP is
the only company to offer a full portfolio of standards-based, integrated solutions, and services developed
specifically to solve the complexities of the data center. HP is also the only company that can deliver a single
common, modular architecture across the data center from x86 to Superdome. This means that companies
can use the same architecture to run and manage multiple workloads across servers, storage and networking.
This significantly reduces complexity, resource requirements, and costs.

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Why the ProLiant DL385 is the world’s best-selling AMD Opteron rack server
The HP ProLiant DL385, also known as the versatile, dependable workhorse, is the world's best-selling AMD
Opteron processor-based rack server, maintaining its dominant share in the 2U, 2P market with new G7
benefits in its rack server format that allows for greater system efficiency, flexibility, and scalability.
Key Benefits
 Eight- and 12-core AMD Opteron 6100 Series processors, the x86 industry’s first 12- and 8-core processors,
pave the way for the most demanding server workloads to keep pace with rapidly increasing complexity.
These additional cores are matched with next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture 2.0, providing 4
memory channels per CPU and HyperTransport™ 3.0 (HT3) technology to deliver up to double the
performance for demanding scale-out applications and virtualization projects
 Ideal for virtualization with up to 24 DIMMs and four NIC ports
 Industry-leading management enables powerful administration
 Engineered for reliability and ease of ownership

HP takes NINE of the TOP TEN results for two-socket price/performance

HP ProLiant servers dominated the two-socket price/performance results for the TPC-C benchmark. Dell was
#11. In addition, the TOP TEN overall price/performance results show that HP took FIVE out of the ten
positions.**
Table 1. The ProLiant DL385 G7 two-socket server is more cost-effective than any competitor*
System Date
Sponsor System TpmC Price/TpmC Database
Availability Submitted
HP ProLiant MS SQL Server
705,652 0.60 USD 9/1/2010 2005 Ent. x64 Ed. 4/8/2010
DL385G7 SP3
IBM Power 780
Server Model 1,200,011 0.69 USD 10/13/2010 IBM DB2 9.5 4/13/2010
9179-MHB
Oracle Database
HP ProLiant DL370
631,766 1.08 USD 3/30/2009 11g Standard Ed. 3/30/2009
G6 1
MS SQL Server
HP ProLiant
661,475 1.16 USD 2/1/2010 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. 2/1/2010
DL370G6 SP2
Oracle Database
ProLiant ML370 G5 273,666 1.38 USD 11/12/2007 10g Standard Ed. 11/9/2007
1
HP ProLiant MS SQL Server
ML370G5 X5460 275,149 1.44 USD 1/7/2008 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. 1/7/2008
QC SP2
HP ProLiant MS SQL Server
ML370G5 X5365 251,300 1.63 USD 9/5/2007 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. 9/5/2007
QC SP2
HP ProLiant
MS SQL Server
ML370-G4-1M 68,010 1.80 USD 11/1/2004
2000 Ent. Ed. SP3
11/1/2004
3.6Ghz 2P
HP Integrity rx2600
Oracle Database
- Itanium2/1.3 51,506 1.81 USD 9/29/2004
10g Standard Ed.
9/29/2004
GHz-2p/2c
HP ProLiant MS SQL Server
ML370G5 240,737 1.85 USD 2/1/2007 2005 x64 Ent. Ed. 11/13/2006
SAS/2.66GHz QC SP1
HP ProLiant
MS SQL Server
DL385-G1 71,413 2.15 USD 2/14/2005
2000 Ent. Ed. SP3
2/11/2005
16GB/2.6GHz/2P

PowerEdge MS SQL Server

63,646 2.28 USD 5/10/2005 5/10/2005
2800/2/3.6GHz/2M 2000 Ent. Ed. SP3

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 *Top Ten 2-socket price/performance results **http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp

Benchmark Configurations
The HP ProLiant DL385 G7 was configured with two 12-core AMD Opteron 6176 SE 2.3GHz processors (2
processors/24 cores /24 threads), and 256GB PC3-8500R main memory. The server was running Microsoft
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition x64 SP3 database and Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition
operating system. The DL385 G7 servers also utilized a SMART Array P410i SAS RAID Controller, a SMART
Array P411 SAS RAID Controller, and 2 X 72GB 15K SFF SAS drives in internal bays. The system was connected
to an HP 5642 Rack containing 5 xD2700 StorageWorks Enclosures with 10 x 120GB SSD drives and 115 x
60GB SSD drives, 2 x MSA 70 StorageWorks Enclosures with 5 x 300GB 10K SFF SAS drives each, 1 x MSA
2324fc StorageWorks Enclosure with 16 X 146GB 15K SFF SAS 6G Drives, and 1 x MSA 70 StorageWorks
Enclosure with 24 x 300GB 10K SFF SAS drives. System availability date is 09/01/10.

Bottom Line
As the leading 2-socket, 2U AMD Opteron processor-based rack server, the ProLiant DL385 G7 is designed
with virtualization in mind, yet flexible and expandable to support any business need in many environments
from corporate datacenters to sophisticated SMBs. The #1 TPC-C results are proof points that the ProLiant
DL385 G7 is the ideal solution to meet business needs.

About the TPC-C benchmark

The TPC-C benchmark simulates an Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) database environment. The
performance of a system is measured when the system is tasked with processing numerous short business
transactions concurrently. The TPC-C workload simulates a tiered environment wherein users interact with
web pages to enter business transactions. Transactions are entered by simulated users, business logic and
queuing of the transactions are handled by a middle tier server, and then the transactions are passed to the
TPC-C database server for processing. For more details, see
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/c-products/servers/benchmarks/HP_ProLiant_tpcc_Overview.pdf.
TPC Disclosure
A full disclosure report describing these benchmark results has been filed with the Transaction Processing
Performance Council (TPC) and is available upon request. This report describes the benchmark HW and SW
configuration in detail, provides costs, and lists the code actually used to perform the test. Similar reports
from other vendors are the source of the price/performance comparisons provided above. Summaries of all
tests are published each month by the TPC and on the Internet on the TPC's World Wide Web Server. With
these benchmarks, customers can objectively compare the performance of different vendors' servers in
specific areas. Results as of 04-15-10.

For more information check out:

HP ProLiant DL385 G7: www.hp.com/servers/proliantdl385g7
HP Converged Infrastructure: http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/solutions/converged/overview.html
TPC-C details: http://www.tpc.org

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Processing Performance Council. April 2010

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