Clustered Linux shines on commercial TPC-C test (Register) [LWN.net]

The Register reports on Hewlett Packard's clusters, which run Oracle's 9I Real Application Clusters (RACs) clustering software. "To prove that Linux is an option in the data center using clusters, HP tested an eight-node cluster of ProLiant DL580 servers, which use the Profusion chipset co-developed by Compaq and Intel and which can scale to eight Pentium III Xeon processors in a single system. The DL580s that HP tested used the 900MHz versions of the Pentium III Xeon processors, each equipped with 2MB of L2 cache memory. Each node had 4GB of main memory, yielding a cluster with 64 processors and 128GB of main memory."

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Clustered Linux shines on commercial TPC-C test (Register)

Posted Oct 2, 2002 14:44 UTC (Wed) by ffiorese (guest, #3634) [Link]

I think that the article referenced on The Register from ComputerWire contains wrong info.

I have checked on TPC web site for the entry of the referenced benchkmark and there is no trace of it, however the price/performance and the TPC-C Throughput described in the article are the same of another benchmark submitted last mid september with a similar architecture but only with 4 CPUs per nodes (a total of 32 CPUs). There was also a reference on slashdot article published on Thursday 19 September.

Also I do not understand why the costs of Linux were so high, do you really need a separate RedHat license for each server?