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ECG078/0498 WHITE PAPER COMPAQ SERVERS: ENTERPRISE CLASS SYSTEMS 3... INTRODUCTION Nearly 2 million servers shipped. More than 1 billion transactions processed in one day. Providing more than twice as many servers in the worldwide market than the nearest competitor in the first three quarters of 1997. This is the Compaq story as a leader in providing server integration excellence. COMPAQ SERVERS EQUAL INTEGRATION EXCELLENCE Using the latest industry-standard technology and its own innovations, Compaq integrates high scalability, high availability, integrated management solutions, and total cost of ownership into every server it builds. Scalability Compaq provides the industry's highest levels of scalability on x86 platforms. In May 1997, Compaq achieved an enterprise computing milestone of more than 1 billion transactions per day- far exceeding typical transaction loads of the world's largest commercial mainframe systems. This demonstration shows the scalability of Compaq's systems to meet and exceed the most demanding business requirements and validates Compaq's decision to bring new levels of scalability to large enterprises using industry-standard platforms. "Compaq is a leader in moving enterprise computing from yesterday's expensive, inflexible proprietary systems to today's cost-effective open environment," said Jim Allchin, Senior Vice President, Personal and Business Systems group, Microsoft. "Compaq is a key ally with proven expertise in developing and bringing to market scalable, high-performance solutions." Price:Performance Compaq's server architecture, designed from the ground up, balances processor and memory with the I/O architecture, which enables the company to uphold a tradition of leading price:performance. In October 1997, the Compaq ProLiant 7000 achieved the best transaction performance ever on a 4-processor Intel-based server running Windows NT on the TPC-C benchmark. The server performed 11,055 transactions per minute (tpmC) at just $39.25/tpmC with four 200 MHz Pentium Pro processors running Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 Enterprise Edition and Windows NT Server 4.0 Enterprise Edition.* The Compaq ProLiant 6500 has also set records. In September 1997, the ProLiant 6500, combined with Oracle 8.0.4, set stunning, record-breaking numbers for both query processing and price:performance in a decision support environment. The query processing number of 869.4 QppD raised the bar by an amazing 64 percent over the previous Windows NT record. The price:performance ratio number of $892.23 per QphD was below the $1,000 barrier for the first time, clearly making the Compaq/Oracle combination the most cost-effective Windows NT solution available. Most recently, the ProLiant 6500 was used in a record-setting 6-node cluster configuration with Tandem's ServerNet interconnect technology to achieve 27,383tpmC at $72/tpmC.* *Refer to http://www.tpc.org for more details