Enterprise Linux Today: Turbolinux 7 Server and IBM DB2 Database Software Take TPC-H Record

“Turbolinux Inc., a worldwide leader in Linux operating
environments and multi-platform software deployment and management
products, announced today that the combination of IBM DB2 database
software and Turbolinux 7 Server now holds the world-record for
performance in the industry-standard decision support benchmark
test TPC-H (100GB)

The 100GB TPC-H benchmark was performed on a four-node IBM
eServer xSeries 350. Each xSeries 350 server node was configured
with four Intel 900MHz Pentium III Xeon TM processors and 4GB of
memory, and ran with IBM DB2 Universal Database version 7.2 and
Turbolinux 7 Server. The system achieved a Composite Query-per-Hour
Performance Metric of 2960.6 QphH@100GB and a price/performance
metric of $337/QphH@100GB with an availability date of June 20,
2002***.”

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