Fujitsu sets new benchmark performance record with PrimeQuest servers

By Phumeza Tontsi for CoCre8
Johannesburg, 04 Jun 2014

Fujitsu today announces new benchmark world records for data centre virtualisation and online transaction processing that prove Primergy servers and Fujitsu's new mission-critical systems are dominant market leaders when it comes to performance. New VMware VMmark benchmarks (1) demonstrate Fujitsu's virtualisation pre-eminence in several different core classes using 'matched-pair' configurations with the Fujitsu Server PrimeQuest 2800E.

The PrimeQuest 2800E also sets records in 'uniform-hosts' configurations as best two-socket system using four two-way partitions in a single system (2), as well as achieving a 'VMmark overall world record' with four four-way partitions in two servers (3).

These results attest to the superior flexibility and efficiency that can be achieved by using hardware-partitioning capabilities, and extend Fujitsu's consistant outperformance of its closest rivals. Simultaneously, the PrimeQuest 2800E has set a new world-record TPC-E benchmark (4) with a result of 8582.52 tpsE and a price/performance of $205.43/tpsE (availability date is May 1st, 2014).

These impessive results for the PrimeQuest 2800E prove that the system is ideal for running mission-critical applications, large scale databases and real-time analytics, which require high performance plus the availability levels equivalent to those of Unix systems. The mission-critical features enable outstanding platform reliability with innnovative error prevention and self-healing capabilities - all with the flexibility and cost advantages of an x86-based architecture.

Notes to editors

1 The VMmark results were achieved by Fujitsu PrimeQuest 2800E systems. Full test results including system specification, further details and current results can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/a/vmmark/. The comparison reflects the status at 1 April 2014.

2 The VMmark result of 38.86 @ 32 tiles was achieved by four hosts (realized as completely independent system partitions in one PrimeQuest 2800E system), each with 512GB of memory, using Intel(R) Xeon(R) E7-8890 v2 processors. Full test results including system specification, further details and current results can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2014-04-01-Fujitsu-PRIMEQUEST2800E-32.pdf. The comparison reflects the status at 1 April 2014.

3 The VMmark result of 70.73 @ 60 tiles was achieved by four hosts (realized as completely independent system partitions in two PrimeQuest 2800E systems), each with 1TB of memory, using Intel Xeon E7-8890 v2 processors. Full test results including system specification, further details and current results can be found at: http://www.vmware.com/a/assets/vmmark/pdf/2014-04-01-Fujitsu-PRIMEQUEST2800E-60.pdf. The comparison reflects the status at April 1, 2014. For information about VMmark and the rules regarding its usage visit: http://www.vmware.com/products/vmmark. VMware and VMmark are trademarks or registered trademarks of VMware. VMware VMmark is a product of VMware.

4 The TPC-E result was achieved by one Fujitsu Server PrimeQuest 2800E with 4TB of memory, using Intel Xeon E7-8890 v2 processors. Full test results including system specification and further details can be found at http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_result_detail.asp?id=114041401. The comparison reflects the status at April 14, 2014. Current TPC-E results can be found at http://www.tpc.org/tpce/results/tpce_perf_results.asp. TPC, TPC Benchmark, TPC-E and tpsE are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance Council.

Online resources

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