Oracle on Itanium blade servers rock

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Oracle today announced that Oracle® Application Server 10g Release 3, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters, running on HP Integrity server blades and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Arrays, delivered world record clustered performance results with the SPECjAppServer2004 Benchmark.(1) Reaching the highest performance ever achieved running a clustered database, this result surpassed the best SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark results from BEA WebLogic(2) by 15 percent and IBM WebSphere with IBM DB2 UDB 9.1(3) by more than 116 percent.

Oracle Application Server 10g Release 3 together with Oracle Database and Oracle Real Application Clusters achieved 9,459.19 SPECJAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second). The Java Application Servers were running on 11 HP Integrity BL860c server blades, with the latest two dual-core Intel� Itanium� 1.66 GHz processors running in the HP BladeSystem c-Class c7000 enclosure. The database server was running on two HP Integrity Superdome servers each with 40 dual-core Intel® Itanium® 1.6 GHz processors and an HP StorageWorks EVA8100. Both the application server and database tiers were running HP-UX 11i v3. This result adds to Oracle and HP�s existing world record performance results with the SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark in the Single Node(4) and Multi Node(5) categories.

This article is talking about HP and Oracle showing how by optimizing the application code (in this case a database) with the platform they can achieve significant performance, very cool. It’s always interesting to see what technologies and combinations of technologies they’ve used to come up with the results, interestingly they’re using dual-core Itanium’s processors.