CNET News: Intel: Linux Good for 32-Chip Server

“Intel has found that a 32-processor Itanium server running
Linux is rivaling Windows and Unix servers in database performance,
a major accomplishment for the comparatively young operating
system.

“Intel has been testing how well Linux can handle large
databases, a demanding task that requires a server to perform huge
numbers of transactions. In laboratory tests, the company found
that a Linux-based 32-processor Itanium server is nearing the
ability to perform 600,000 transactions per minute, a score that
puts it near today’s most powerful Windows and Unix servers.

“Sunil Saxena, Intel’s principal engineer for the Linux
operating system, described the result at the Enterprise Linux
Forum here Thursday. ‘We’re very close’ to reaching the 600,000
transaction-per-minute level on a database server speed test called
TPC-C…”

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