New IBM eServer p5 Systems Delivered to Lockheed Martin
Monday, 27 December 2004IBM today announced that Lockheed Martin, one of the world's largest systems technology developers, has received IBM's latest UNIX technology to help power mission critical applications utilized by a US Government Federal customer in support of Lockheed Martin's Integrated Systems &Solutions (IS&S) business area. IS&S will use the new IBM POWER5™ processor-based IBM eServer™ p5 570 systems with Micro-Partitioning™ and virtualization technology to consolidate a large number of UNIX servers, resulting in performance, systems management and availability improvements.
"The success of IBM's POWER5-based server line has brought about a new era in UNIX computing -- offering clients new Virtualization Engine capabilities combined with record-breaking system performance," said Karl Freund, vice president, IBM eServer pSeries®. "For clients such as Lockheed Martin, the IBM eServer p5 570 is an ideal solution to simplify IT infrastructures through cost-effective server consolidation."
Lockheed Martin will be implementing two 16-way 1.9GHz p5 570 systems running IBM's most advanced UNIX environment -- AIX 5L™ v5.3. Lockheed Martin is currently installing the p5-570 systems as part of its large IT infrastructure. As part of the multi-year agreement with Lockheed Martin's IS&S, the IBM eServer p5 570 system will act as the foundation for the mission programs' IT infrastructure.
The IBM eServer p5 570 is a POWER5 processor-based mid-range server that offers clients such as Lockheed Martin outstanding price/performance, mainframe-inspired reliability and availability features. The p5-570 is well-suited for server consolidation projects, database and application serving, e-commerce and departmental or regional server deployments. The p5-570 is a cost-effective, flexible server for the on-demand environment. By combining the most advanced IBM leading-edge technology for enterprise-class performance and flexible adaptation to changing conditions, the p5-570 delivers the key capabilities clients need in on demand environments.
Award-Winning Performance
The IBM eServer p5 570 is already one of the most decorated UNIX servers in the history of performance benchmarks. Among the performance marks currently held by the p5 570:
-- TPC-C running DB2: the p5-570 system holds the record for the fastest
16-way result, is the only 16-way system in the TPC-C top ten list by
performance and beats a 16-way HP Integrity system by 168% and a 64-way HP
PA-RISC system by nearly 50%(1).
-- SAP: the 8-way p5-570 achieved the best-in-class two-tier SAP SD
Standard application benchmark result, and the 16-way p5-570 achieved the
best-in-class two-tier SAP SD Standard Application benchmark result(2).
-- SPECfp_rate2000: the 8-way p5-570 system holds the record for the
fastest 8-way result, besting an HP PA-RISC system by 298%(3).
-- SPEC OMP2001: the 16-way IBM eServer p570 holds the record for the
fastest 16-way result, 335% faster than a 16-way HP PA-RISC Superdome(4).
-- TPC-C price/performance: The p5-570 achieved 57% better
price/performance than HP PA-RISC, when comparing the p5-570 TPC-C
price/performance result of 4.95 $/tpmC versus the HP9000 Superdome TPC-C
price/performance result of 11.66 $/tpmC(5).
All benchmark results current as of December 16, 2004.
Information on IBM eServer is available at http://www.ibm.com/eserver. IBM news releases and fact sheets are available at http://www.ibm.com.
(1) IBM TPC-C results of 809,144 tpmC, 4.95 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 09/30/04, run on a 16-way 1.90GHz POWER5 IBM eServer p5-570 running DB2 Universal Data Base version 8.1 on AIX 5L V5.3 versus an HP Integrity TPC-C result of 301,225 tpmC, 4.56 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 4/15/04, running on a 16-way 1.50GHz Integrity rx8620 running Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Ed. 64-bit on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition 64-bit versus an HP PA-RISC TPC-C result of 541,673 tpmC, 11.66 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 12/31/03, running on a 64-way 875MHz HP9000 Superdome running Oracle Database 10G Enterprise Edition on HP UX 11.i, 64-bit Base OS Source: http://www.tpc.org.
(2) The 8-way IBM eServer p5 570 (1.90GHz) achieved a two tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark result of 2,600 benchmark users, 1.99 second average response time running IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.1, AIX 5.3, SAP R/3® Enterprise Release 4.70 solution. The 16-way IBM eServer p5 570 (1.90GHz) achieved a two-tier SAP Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark result of 5,056 benchmark users, 1.99 second average response time running IBM DB2 Universal Database 8.1, AIX 5.3, SAP R/3 Enterprise Release 4.70 solution. Source: http://www.sap.com/benchmark.
(3) An 8-way IBM eServer p5-570 (1.90GHz) achieved a 249 SPECfp_rate2000 result compared to an 8-way HP 9000 rp7420-16 system which achieved a 62 SPECfp_rate2000 result. Source: http://www.spec.org.
(4) Based on SPECompMpeak2001 result of 38,282 OpenMP performance for 16-way 1.90GHz POWER5 IBM eServer p5-570 (running 32 threads) versus an 875MHz 16-way HP Superdome PA-RISC (running 16 threads) result of 8,788 OpenMP performance. Source: http://www.spec.org.
(5) Based on IBM TPC-C results of 809,144 tpmC, 4.95 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 09/30/04, run on a 16-way 1.90GHz POWER5 IBM eServer p5-570 running DB2 Universal Data Base version 8.1 on AIX 5L V5.3 with IBM FAStT TotalStorage900 versus an HP PA-RISC TPC-C result of 541,673 tpmC, 11.66 $/tpmC, configuration available as of 12/31/03, running on a 64-way 875MHz HP9000 Superdome running Oracle Database 10G Enterprise Edition on HP UX 11i, 64-bit Base OS. Source: http://www.tpc.org.
Contact:
Kevin Acocella
IBM Corporation
646-598-5551
kma@us.ibm.com
Source: Market Wire
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