Neal Nelson Benchmarking Laboratory

Transaction Benchmark Throughput Comparison

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Machine Selections   1st   2nd		Brand Model Case Type	CPU Model	CPUs/Cores Clock	RAM Size RAM Type	No. Disks, Size, Type	Oper. Sys.	System Cost	Peak Trans. /Min.	Cost /Trans. /Min.	Std/ Non-Std (Note 1)
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 256	2 / 2 3.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 3,084	17,142	$ .18	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 256	1 / 1 3.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 2,229	11,244	$ .20	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 250	2 / 2 2.4 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 2,109	15,147	$ .14	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 246	2 / 2 2.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,674	14,191	$ .12	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 246	1 / 1 2.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,524	7,175	$ .21	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,684	11,114	$ .15	Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	1 / 1 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,529	7,148	$ .21	Std
		Tyan S2885 Tower	Opteron 256	2 / 2 3.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 3,133	16,305	$ .19	Std
		Tyan S2885 Tower	Opteron 256	1 / 1 3.0 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 2,278	11,514	$ .20	Std
		Tyan S2885 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,733	10,549	$ .16	Std
		Tyan S2885 Tower	Opteron 242	1 / 1 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,578	7,097	$ .22	Std
		Intel SE7500WV2 2U Rack	Xeon NetBurst	2 / 2 2.4 GHz	2048 MB	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,750	7,718	$ .23	Std
		Intel SE7500WV2 2U Rack	Xeon NetBurst	1 / 1 2.4 GHz	2048 MB	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,530	5,400	$ .28	Std
		Tyan S2462 Tower	Athlon MP 2100+	2 / 2 1.7 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,297	5,844	$ .22	Std
		Tyan S2462 Tower	Athlon MP 2100+	1 / 1 1.7 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,184	3,878	$ .31	Std
		Asus PC-DL	Xeon SL6RQ NetBurst	1 / 1 2.0 GHz	1024 MB DDR	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,282	4,514	$ .28	Non-Std
		Asus PC-DL	Xeon SL6RQ NetBurst	2 / 2 2.0 GHz	1024 MB DDR	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,376	6,475	$ .21	Non-Std
		Tyan S2462 Tower	Athlon MP 2100+	2 / 2 1.7 GHz	512 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,183	5,213	$ .23	Non-Std
		Tyan S2462 Tower	Athlon MP 2100+	2 / 2 1.7 GHz	1024 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,221	5,774	$ .21	Non-Std
		Tyan S2462 Tower	Athlon MP 2100+	2 / 2 1.7 GHz	1536 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,259	5,862	$ .21	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	1 - 320 Gb MaxLine II IDE	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,276	4,483	$ .28	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	1 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,477	7,975	$ .19	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 32-Bit	$ 1,684	10,549	$ .16	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SUSE 10.1 64-Bit	$ 1,684	8,170	$ .21	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SLES 10 32-Bit	$ 2,033	6,405	$ .32	Non-Std
		Tyan S2881 Tower	Opteron 242	2 / 2 1.6 GHz	2048 MB DDR/ECC, Reg.	2 - 146 Gb Cheetah 15k SCSI	SLES 10 64-Bit	$ 2,033	5,086	$ .40	Non-Std

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Note 1: In a "Standard Configuration" test the machines are configured with identical disk drives (two 146 GB Seagate Cheetah 15,000 RPM SCSI disks), the same RAM size (2 gigabytes) and loaded with same operating system software (SUSE Linux 10.1) which has been configured with the same system tunables.

In a "Non-Standard Configuration" test the machines can have any configuration of disk drives or RAM and possibly different operating systems.

In all tests the machines run the same application software that was compiled with the same compilers and the same compile time options.