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10/08 HP ProLiant ML370 G5 runs more virtual machines per server
The HP ProLiant ML370 G5 is the highest performing 2P server on the VMmark benchmark with a score of 9.15@7 tiles. This result defeated Dell, IBM, and Sun.

09/08 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 takes #1 server blade virtualization performance record on VMmark Benchmark
The HP ProLiant BL680c is the highest performing 16-core server AND blade server on the VMmark benchmark with a VMmark score of 16.05@12 tiles. This result defeated the Dell PowerEdge M905 server blade by 12% with a one-tile advantage.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and BL680c G5 earn #1 and #2 four-processor performance in two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 took the #1 worldwide four-processor performance on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for the DL580 G5, while the #2 worldwide four-processor performance spot on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark was earned by the HP ProLiant BL680c G5. The result also showed 38% scaling from 4-processor 4-core to 4-processor 6-core.

09/08 HP ProLiant BL460c and DL380 G5 achieve two-processor world record performance results on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark on Windows
The HP ProLiant BL460c and ProLiant DL380 G5 earned two-processor world record performance results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark on Windows. These results surpassed competitors such as Dell, IBM, and Fujitsu Siemens, among others, by up to 29.7% and 39.8% in performance results, respectively. In addition, the performance scalability for Quad-Core processors from generation to generation for the HP ProLiant servers was 36.7% better for the BL460c and there was a 40.2% increased performance for the ProLiant DL380 G5 when compared to its previous Quad-Core generations. See page 2 for details.

09/08 HP ProLiant BL460c takes #1 performance on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications running Linux, Oracle
HP ProLiant leadership with Siebel continues with the BL460c server blade holding the #1 result on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications with 5,000 users. This benchmark is the first and only Siebel CRM 8.0 benchmark running Oracle Enterprise Linux. The ProLiant BL460c defeated the IBM System x3850 by 42.8% more number of users than IBM!

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5: #1 single-node result on SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 using the latest Intel 7400 series processors with six cores and running Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 with Oracle Database 11g achieved 4,410.07 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second), which is the #1 worldwide single-node performance and represents 132% scaling as compared to the previous 4 core result.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 6-core with BL685c: #1 result across all 4 metrics on Oracle E-Business Suite benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c posted the #1 record in the industry across all benchmark metrics on the 3,000-user Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark. The DL580 G5 showed excellent price/performance by beating all competitors at a fraction of the cost.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c: #1 Payroll Processing result on Oracle E-Business Suite benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c posted the #1 record in the industry for Payroll per Hour Throughput on the 3,000-user Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark. The DL580 G5 showed excellent price/performance by exceeding the IBM System p570 results in 3 out of 4 benchmark performance criteria at a fraction of the cost.

09/08 HP ProLiant BL460c achieves #1 performance spot on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications running Microsoft, Oracle; HP ProLiant BL685c takes #2 position
HP ProLiant leadership continues with the BL460c server blade holding the #1 Microsoft Windows result on Oracle’s Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark blades with 5,200 users. In addition, the #2 spot is also held by HP with the ProLiant HP BL685c server blade with 4,700 users. The ProLiant BL460c defeated the IBM System x3850 by 33% more number of users while the ProLiant BL685c had 20.5% more users than IBM!

08/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 posts #1 result for virtualization performance
The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved the highest virtualization performance and largest number of virtual machines on an x86 server, achieving 96 virtual machines with a score of 21.88@16 tiles. The leading result proves the ideal suitability of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 for virtualization and consolidation environments

08/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server: #1 4P on TPC-C benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server achieved #1 worldwide 4P performance and price/performance. This result was achieved at less than half of the cost of the closest competitors, the IBM POWER 550 and IBM System x3850 M2. The DL580 G5 scaled 230% at 30% lower cost than the highest performing ProLiant 2P server.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 earns #1 virtualization performance record on VMmark Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 is the highest performing server for four-socket, 16-core servers on the VMmark benchmark with a VMmark score of 14.74@10 tiles. This result defeated competitors Dell, IBM, and Sun.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors takes #1 4-socket worldwide price/performance record again on TPC-C benchmark
HP announced a record-breaking price/performance result again on the TPC-C benchmark for the HP ProLiant DL585 G5, achieving 471,883 tpmC @ USD $1.17/tpmC. The ProLiant DL585 G5 achieved the top 4-socket price/performance result at less than 50% cost of the closest competitor and accomplished over 51% performance improvement from the previous server generation, the ProLiant DL585 G2.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 and DL385 G5 AMD Opteron servers lead with 4P, 2P world record performances on the SPECweb®2005 Benchmark
Defeating competitors IBM, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens, HP again commanded leadership with its ProLiant servers on a recent SPECweb2005 benchmark. The record-breaking benchmark results of the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 four-socket and DL385 G5 two-socket AMD Opteron servers demonstrate the outstanding performance and reliability these solutions deliver to high-traffic computing environments in massive scale out and cloud computing environments.

08/08 HP takes world record for single node performance with ProLiant DL580 G5 server running Oracle WebLogic Server Standard Edition Release 10.3 Middleware on SPECjAppServer2004
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server achieved HP ProLiant leadership with the #1 single-node overall performance result on SPECjAppServer 2004, outperforming SUN SPARC Enterprise T5240.

07/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server with latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes overall x86_64 records on SPEC® CPU2006 benchmark
HP announced its latest worldwide performance records for the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks on July 23, 2008, for a four-processor configuration. The ProLiant DL585 G5 with the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8360 achieved two new records on the SPEC® CPU2006 benchmark: #1 overall x86_64 SPECfpÒ_rate_base2006 (156) and #1 overall x86_64 SPECfp_rate2006 (170).

07/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 achieves #1 4-processor Windows result on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
This leading 4-processor Windows performance result shows a performance increase of 7.3% with Quad-Core AMD Opteronä 2.5 GHz processors as compared to the IBM System x3755 result of 3,540 SAP SD Benchmark users achieved with previous generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2.3 GHz processors.

07/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieves #1 8P non-clustered performance and price/performance on TPC-H@300GB benchmark
The ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved new world record results on the TPC-H@300 GB decision support benchmark: 52,860 QphH, $3.71/QphH@300GB USD price/performance. These leading results demonstrate that customers can deploy large business intelligence solutions at aggressive TCO on high-performance 8-socket x86 servers. Announced on July 14, 2008, this benchmark was performed using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 database. The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved 14% better performance at 31% less cost as compared to the IBM System x3950 M2.

06/08 HP ProLiant DL120 G5 tops Dell for energy efficient 1P performance on SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL120 G5 performed outstanding energy efficient 1P performance on the SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark with a one?processor performance of 908 overall ssj_ops/watt. This result defeated the Dell PowerEdge R300 one-processor competitor by 13.5%.

06/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL460c beats IBM POWER6/POWER5 result in online performance on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark
In March 2008, HP submitted a new result for the HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and three ProLiant BL460c blade servers on the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model benchmark. The HP ProLiant servers configured with Quad-Core Intel Xeon processors achieved superior results as compared to the IBM System p570 POWER6 and POWER 5 results in each of the following key measurements:
  • 33% faster in Average Response Time
  • 37% faster in 90th percentile Response Time
These results show the superior optimization of the ProLiant four-processor Quad-Core Intel Xeon server architecture versus IBM’s p570 POWER6 and POWER5 four-processor dual-core server architecture.

06/08 Feature-rich HP ProLiant DL360 G5 is more energy efficient than Dell PowerEdge 1950 III and 2950 III
The HP ProLiant DL360 G5 demonstrated energy efficient performance on the SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark with a two-processor performance of 722 overall ssj_ops/watt. SPECpower_ssj™2008 is the first generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the power and performance characteristics of server class computers. This measurement provides a way to compare the energy efficiency of servers.

05/08 HP ProLiant BL685c takes #1 Windows performance on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications
HP, in conjunction with Microsoft and Oracle Corp., has completed a Siebel 8.0 benchmark on an infrastructure designed to deliver a high-performance and cost-effective solution for midsized users of Siebel software. The tested configuration was built on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure running Windows Server 2003 EE operating system and an Oracle backend database. Completed as part of the CRM 8.0 Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP), this benchmark, validated by Oracle Corp., demonstrated that enterprises requiring 4,700 concurrent CRM application users can confidently deploy their CRM software in a complete HP BladeSystem infrastructure and gain the advantage of an easily-managed, cost-effective infrastructure solution optimized for efficiency and change. The CRM 8.0 performance results were achieved with an HP ProLiant BL685 for the Siebel Application Server, HP ProLiant BL465 for the Siebel Web Server, and an HP rx6600 server configured at the database tier. A single HP ProLiant BL685c blade server with four dual-core AMD Opteron processors Model 8222 (3.0GHz) and 32 GB memory was used as an application server. The application server used 24 GB of memory and maintained CPU utilization of 88%. One HP ProLiant BL465c blade server was used as web server with two dual-core AMD Opteron processors Model 2218 (2.6GHz) and 4 GB memory. The Web and Application Server platforms ran Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. An HP rx6600 server was used as the database server and had four Itanium 1.6GHz Intel Itanium 2 Dual-Core processors. This compact enterprise solution demonstrates outstanding throughput, processing almost 73,000 complex business transactions per hour.

05/08 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 with BL480c server blades earn the Top position on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark for RAC category
ProLiant leadership continues with the #1 result on the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark with the four-socket, Quad-Core ProLiant BL680c G5 and ProLiant BL480c server blades for Fastest Response Time, Orders-to-Catch, and Payroll Batch in the Real Application Clusters (RAC) category. The results defeated SGI's Altix 450 eight-socket, 16-core server results for the above categories and also beat IBM's p570 POWER6/POWER5 four-socket, Dual-Core server's non-RAC results for performance and price/performance.

05/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 takes #1 8-processor Windows result with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
Tests were performed on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server by HP’s Houston Solution Alliances SAP Engineering lab in Houston, TX. HP received certification from SAP AG of the results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for the ProLiant DL785 G5 (Certification #2008026) on May 5, 2008. The server was configured as an eight-processor system with 8 Quad-Core 2.5-GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors 8360SE (8 processors/32 cores/32 threads), with 512 KB Integrated Level 2 Cache memory per core, 2 MB Shared Level 3 Cache per processor, and 64GB main memory. The server was running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 x64 database, and the SAP ERP application. The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved 5,230 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 523,670 fully processed order line items per hour or 26,180 SAPS.

05/08 HP holds #1 position for two-processor Linux performance on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark with the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 using SAP MaxDB™ and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
The HP ProLiant DL380 G5 holds continued ProLiant leadership with the #1 two-processor Linux performance results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP MaxDB™ database and Novell SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. The HP ProLiant DL380 G5 also holds the #2 two-processor Linux performance result. When optimized with SAP MaxDB and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server into one package, the ProLiant DL380 G5 helps midsize companies drive down TCO with higher performance.

04/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 achieves #1 4P non-clustered performance and price/performance on TPC-H@100GB benchmark
HP, a market leader for industry-standard servers, announced on April 4, 2008, new world record results on the TPC-H@100GB decision support benchmark. The ProLiant DL580 G5 4-socket server achieved these results on the TPC-H@100 GB benchmark with 34,989.9 QphH, $3.97/QphH@100GB USD, running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1 operating system and SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 database and configured with four processors.

03/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes #1 4P worldwide price/performance record on TPC-C benchmark
HP announced new record-breaking results on the TPC-C benchmark for the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 on March 31, 2008. The HP ProLiant DL585 G5, configured with 4 x 2.3GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 8356 processors (4 processors/16 cores/16 threads) with 2 MB Cache and 128 GB DDR2 main memory, achieved 402,234 tpmC @ USD$1.26/tpmC running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 database. The results represent a 52.9% performance improvement on Quad-Core processors compared to the DL585 G2 Dual-Core result. The DL585 G5 result with the new Quad-Core processors achieved the top 4P price/performance at less than half the cost of the closest competitor, is #7 on the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance list, is the only 4P server result on that list, and brings the number of HP servers on the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance list to 5.

03/08 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade takes world record for excellent performance for four-processor server on three-tier SAP® SD Standard Application Benchmark with Microsoft Windows 2008
The HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade delivers no-compromise performance and expansion as the first Quad-Core 4P BladeSystem Server. The server blade showed an outstanding performance on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark with a result of 34,000 SAP SD Benchmark users and 170,200 total SAPS, earning the #1 position for a four-processor server on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark.

03/08 HP ProLiant servers show excellent performance scalability with new Quad-Core AMD Opteronä processors on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL385 G5 and HP ProLiant BL685c G5 achieved outstanding performance in the first Quad-Core AMD Opteron results posted for HP on the two-tier SAP SD Application Benchmark, showing excellent scalability of HP ProLiant AMD Opteron-based servers moving from dual-core to quad-core processing and comparative performance providing quality choices for customers. The ProLiant DL385 G5 achieved 2,102 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 210,330 fully processed order line items per hour or 10,520 SAPS. The ProLiant BL685c G5 achieved 3,524 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 353,300 fully processed order line items per hour or 17,650 SAPS.

02/08 HP ProLiant two-socket, 8-core servers earn #1 and #2 spots on Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Small Model Benchmark
HP announced recently that its two-socket server blade, the ProLiant BL460c, attained the #1 performance result on the Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Small Model Benchmark, utilizing a Quad-Core configuration with the latest Intel Xeon X5400 Series chipset. The ProLiant DL380 G5 continued its performance success with the next leading result. With this benchmark, HP now owns the TOP 8 positions for published Oracle E-Business Suite small model benchmarks.

Benchmark Overviews

An Overview of the SPECpower_ssj2008 Benchmark on HP ProLiant servers

An Overview of the SPEC CPU2006 Benchmark on HP ProLiant servers and server blades

An Overview of the TPC-C Benchmark on HP ProLiant servers and server blades

An Overview of the VMmark Benchmark on HP ProLiant servers and server blades

An Overview of the TPC-H Benchmark on HP ProLiant servers and blades

ProLiant 8P

08/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 posts #1 result for virtualization performance
The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved the highest virtualization performance and largest number of virtual machines on an x86 server, achieving 96 virtual machines with a score of 21.88@16 tiles. The leading result proves the ideal suitability of the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 for virtualization and consolidation environments

07/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieves #1 8P non-clustered performance and price/performance on TPC-H@300GB benchmark
The ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved new world record results on the TPC-H@300 GB decision support benchmark: 52,860 QphH, $3.71/QphH@300GB USD price/performance. These leading results demonstrate that customers can deploy large business intelligence solutions at aggressive TCO on high-performance 8-socket x86 servers. Announced on July 14, 2008, this benchmark was performed using Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64 database. The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved 14% better performance at 31% less cost as compared to the IBM System x3950 M2.

05/08 HP ProLiant DL785 G5 takes #1 8-processor Windows result with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
Tests were performed on the HP ProLiant DL785 G5 server by HP’s Houston Solution Alliances SAP Engineering lab in Houston, TX. HP received certification from SAP AG of the results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for the ProLiant DL785 G5 (Certification #2008026) on May 5, 2008. The server was configured as an eight-processor system with 8 Quad-Core 2.5-GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors 8360SE (8 processors/32 cores/32 threads), with 512 KB Integrated Level 2 Cache memory per core, 2 MB Shared Level 3 Cache per processor, and 64GB main memory. The server was running Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition x64 operating system, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 x64 database, and the SAP ERP application. The HP ProLiant DL785 G5 achieved 5,230 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 523,670 fully processed order line items per hour or 26,180 SAPS.

ProLiant 4P

09/15 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 takes #1 server blade virtualization performance record on VMmark Benchmark
The HP ProLiant BL680c is the highest performing 16-core server AND blade server on the VMmark benchmark with a VMmark score of 16.05@12 tiles. This result defeated the Dell PowerEdge M905 server blade by 12% with a one-tile advantage.

09/15 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 and BL680c G5 earn #1 and #2 four-processor performance in two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 took the #1 worldwide four-processor performance on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark for the DL580 G5, while the #2 worldwide four-processor performance spot on the two-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark was earned by the HP ProLiant BL680c G5. The result also showed 38% scaling from 4-processor 4-core to 4-processor 6-core.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5: #1 single-node result on SPECjAppServer2004 benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 using the latest Intel 7400 series processors with six cores and running Oracle WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 with Oracle Database 11g achieved 4,410.07 SPECjAppServer2004 JOPS@Standard (jAppServer Operations Per Second), which is the #1 worldwide single-node performance and represents 132% scaling as compared to the previous 4 core result.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c: #1 Payroll Processing result on Oracle E-Business Suite benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c posted the #1 record in the industry for Payroll per Hour Throughput on the 3,000-user Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark. The DL580 G5 showed excellent price/performance by exceeding the IBM System p570 results in 3 out of 4 benchmark performance criteria at a fraction of the cost.

09/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 6-core with BL685c: #1 result across all 4 metrics on Oracle E-Business Suite benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 with BL685c posted the #1 record in the industry across all benchmark metrics on the 3,000-user Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Medium Model Benchmark. The DL580 G5 showed excellent price/performance by beating all competitors at a fraction of the cost.

09/08 HP ProLiant BL460c achieves #1 performance spot on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications running Microsoft, Oracle; HP ProLiant BL685c takes #2 position
HP ProLiant leadership continues with the BL460c server blade holding the #1 Microsoft Windows result on Oracle’s Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark blades with 5,200 users. In addition, the #2 spot is also held by HP with the ProLiant HP BL685c server blade with 4,700 users. The ProLiant BL460c defeated the IBM System x3850 by 33% more number of users while the ProLiant BL685c had 20.5% more users than IBM!

08/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server: #1 4P on TPC-C benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server achieved #1 worldwide 4P performance and price/performance. This result was achieved at less than half of the cost of the closest competitors, the IBM POWER 550 and IBM System x3850 M2. The DL580 G5 scaled 230% at 30% lower cost than the highest performing ProLiant 2P server.

08/08 HP takes world record for single node performance with ProLiant DL580 G5 server running Oracle WebLogic Server Standard Edition Release 10.3 Middleware on SPECjAppServer2004
The HP ProLiant DL580 G5 server achieved HP ProLiant leadership with the #1 single-node overall performance result on SPECjAppServer 2004, outperforming SUN SPARC Enterprise T5240.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 earns #1 virtualization performance record on VMmark Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL585 G5 is the highest performing server for four-socket, 16-core servers on the VMmark benchmark with a VMmark score of 14.74@10 tiles. This result defeated competitors Dell, IBM, and Sun.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors takes #1 4-socket worldwide price/performance record again on TPC-C benchmark
HP announced a record-breaking price/performance result again on the TPC-C benchmark for the HP ProLiant DL585 G5, achieving 471,883 tpmC @ USD $1.17/tpmC. The ProLiant DL585 G5 achieved the top 4-socket price/performance result at less than 50% cost of the closest competitor and accomplished over 51% performance improvement from the previous server generation, the ProLiant DL585 G2.

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 and DL385 G5 AMD Opteron servers lead with 4P, 2P world record performances on the SPECweb®2005 Benchmark
Defeating competitors IBM, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens, HP again commanded leadership with its ProLiant servers on a recent SPECweb2005 benchmark. The record-breaking benchmark results of the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 four-socket and DL385 G5 two-socket AMD Opteron servers demonstrate the outstanding performance and reliability these solutions deliver to high-traffic computing environments in massive scale out and cloud computing environments.

07/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server with latest Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes overall x86_64 records on SPEC® CPU2006 benchmark
HP announced its latest worldwide performance records for the SPEC CPU2006 benchmarks on July 23, 2008, for a four-processor configuration. The ProLiant DL585 G5 with the AMD Opteron™ processor Model 8360 achieved two new records on the SPEC® CPU2006 benchmark: #1 overall x86_64 SPECfpÒ_rate_base2006 (156) and #1 overall x86_64 SPECfp_rate2006 (170).

07/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 achieves #1 4-processor Windows result on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark
This leading 4-processor Windows performance result shows a performance increase of 7.3% with Quad-Core AMD Opteronä 2.5 GHz processors as compared to the IBM System x3755 result of 3,540 SAP SD Benchmark users achieved with previous generation Quad-Core AMD Opteron 2.3 GHz processors.

05/08 HP ProLiant BL685c takes #1 Windows performance on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications
HP, in conjunction with Microsoft and Oracle Corp., has completed a Siebel 8.0 benchmark on an infrastructure designed to deliver a high-performance and cost-effective solution for midsized users of Siebel software. The tested configuration was built on an HP BladeSystem infrastructure running Windows Server 2003 EE operating system and an Oracle backend database. Completed as part of the CRM 8.0 Platform Sizing and Performance Program (PSPP), this benchmark, validated by Oracle Corp., demonstrated that enterprises requiring 4,700 concurrent CRM application users can confidently deploy their CRM software in a complete HP BladeSystem infrastructure and gain the advantage of an easily-managed, cost-effective infrastructure solution optimized for efficiency and change. The CRM 8.0 performance results were achieved with an HP ProLiant BL685 for the Siebel Application Server, HP ProLiant BL465 for the Siebel Web Server, and an HP rx6600 server configured at the database tier. A single HP ProLiant BL685c blade server with four dual-core AMD Opteron processors Model 8222 (3.0GHz) and 32 GB memory was used as an application server. The application server used 24 GB of memory and maintained CPU utilization of 88%. One HP ProLiant BL465c blade server was used as web server with two dual-core AMD Opteron processors Model 2218 (2.6GHz) and 4 GB memory. The Web and Application Server platforms ran Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition. An HP rx6600 server was used as the database server and had four Itanium 1.6GHz Intel Itanium 2 Dual-Core processors. This compact enterprise solution demonstrates outstanding throughput, processing almost 73,000 complex business transactions per hour.

04/08 HP ProLiant DL580 G5 achieves #1 4P non-clustered performance and price/performance on TPC-H@100GB benchmark
HP, a market leader for industry-standard servers, announced on April 4, 2008, new world record results on the TPC-H@100GB decision support benchmark. The ProLiant DL580 G5 4-socket server achieved these results on the TPC-H@100 GB benchmark with 34,989.9 QphH, $3.97/QphH@100GB USD, running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition SP1 operating system and SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 database and configured with four processors.

03/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 with new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processors takes #1 4P worldwide price/performance record on TPC-C benchmark
HP announced new record-breaking results on the TPC-C benchmark for the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 on March 31, 2008. The HP ProLiant DL585 G5, configured with 4 x 2.3GHz Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 8356 processors (4 processors/16 cores/16 threads) with 2 MB Cache and 128 GB DDR2 main memory, achieved 402,234 tpmC @ USD$1.26/tpmC running Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise x64 Edition operating system and Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition SP2 database. The results represent a 52.9% performance improvement on Quad-Core processors compared to the DL585 G2 Dual-Core result. The DL585 G5 result with the new Quad-Core processors achieved the top 4P price/performance at less than half the cost of the closest competitor, is #7 on the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance list, is the only 4P server result on that list, and brings the number of HP servers on the Top Ten TPC-C price/performance list to 5.

03/08 HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade takes world record for excellent performance for four-processor server on three-tier SAP® SD Standard Application Benchmark with Microsoft Windows 2008
The HP ProLiant BL680c G5 server blade delivers no-compromise performance and expansion as the first Quad-Core 4P BladeSystem Server. The server blade showed an outstanding performance on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark with a result of 34,000 SAP SD Benchmark users and 170,200 total SAPS, earning the #1 position for a four-processor server on the three-tier SAP SD Standard Application Benchmark.

ProLiant 2P

10/08 HP ProLiant ML370 G5 runs more virtual machines per server
The HP ProLiant ML370 G5 is the highest performing 2P server on the VMmark benchmark with a score of 9.15@7 tiles. This result defeated Dell, IBM, and Sun.

09/15 HP ProLiant BL460c and DL380 G5 achieve two-processor world record performance results on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution Standard Application Benchmark on Windows
The HP ProLiant BL460c and ProLiant DL380 G5 earned two-processor world record performance results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark on Windows. These results surpassed competitors such as Dell, IBM, and Fujitsu Siemens, among others, by up to 29.7% and 39.8% in performance results, respectively. In addition, the performance scalability for Quad-Core processors from generation to generation for the HP ProLiant servers was 36.7% better for the BL460c and there was a 40.2% increased performance for the ProLiant DL380 G5 when compared to its previous Quad-Core generations. See page 2 for details.

09/15 HP ProLiant BL460c takes #1 performance on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications running Linux, Oracle
HP ProLiant leadership with Siebel continues with the BL460c server blade holding the #1 result on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications with 5,000 users. This benchmark is the first and only Siebel CRM 8.0 benchmark running Oracle Enterprise Linux. The ProLiant BL460c defeated the IBM System x3850 by 42.8% more number of users than IBM!

09/08 HP ProLiant BL460c achieves #1 performance spot on Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark Industry Applications running Microsoft, Oracle; HP ProLiant BL685c takes #2 position
HP ProLiant leadership continues with the BL460c server blade holding the #1 Microsoft Windows result on Oracle’s Siebel CRM Release 8.0 Benchmark blades with 5,200 users. In addition, the #2 spot is also held by HP with the ProLiant HP BL685c server blade with 4,700 users. The ProLiant BL460c defeated the IBM System x3850 by 33% more number of users while the ProLiant BL685c had 20.5% more users than IBM!

08/08 HP ProLiant DL585 G5 and DL385 G5 AMD Opteron servers lead with 4P, 2P world record performances on the SPECweb®2005 Benchmark
Defeating competitors IBM, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens, HP again commanded leadership with its ProLiant servers on a recent SPECweb2005 benchmark. The record-breaking benchmark results of the HP ProLiant DL585 G5 four-socket and DL385 G5 two-socket AMD Opteron servers demonstrate the outstanding performance and reliability these solutions deliver to high-traffic computing environments in massive scale out and cloud computing environments.

06/08 Feature-rich HP ProLiant DL360 G5 is more energy efficient than Dell PowerEdge 1950 III and 2950 III
The HP ProLiant DL360 G5 demonstrated energy efficient performance on the SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark with a two-processor performance of 722 overall ssj_ops/watt. SPECpower_ssj™2008 is the first generation SPEC benchmark for evaluating the power and performance characteristics of server class computers. This measurement provides a way to compare the energy efficiency of servers.

05/08 HP ProLiant DL180 G5 takes giant lead over competitors with #1 energy efficient 2P performance on SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL180 G5 accomplished a world record for energy efficient 2P performance on the SPECpower_ssj™2008 benchmark with a two-processor performance of 930 overall ssj_ops/watt. This result defeated other two-processor competitors, including IBM, Dell, and Fujitsu Siemens. With this result, HP demonstrates that its ProLiant servers, built upon the latest industry-standard technology, is an industry leader in energy efficiency.

05/08 HP holds #1 position for two-processor Linux performance on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark with the HP ProLiant DL380 G5 using SAP MaxDB™ and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
The HP ProLiant DL380 G5 holds continued ProLiant leadership with the #1 two-processor Linux performance results on the two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark running the SAP MaxDB™ database and Novell SUSE® Linux Enterprise Server. The HP ProLiant DL380 G5 also holds the #2 two-processor Linux performance result. When optimized with SAP MaxDB and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server into one package, the ProLiant DL380 G5 helps midsize companies drive down TCO with higher performance.

03/08 HP ProLiant servers show excellent performance scalability with new Quad-Core AMD Opteronä processors on two-tier SAP® Sales and Distribution (SD) Standard Application Benchmark
The HP ProLiant DL385 G5 and HP ProLiant BL685c G5 achieved outstanding performance in the first Quad-Core AMD Opteron results posted for HP on the two-tier SAP SD Application Benchmark, showing excellent scalability of HP ProLiant AMD Opteron-based servers moving from dual-core to quad-core processing and comparative performance providing quality choices for customers. The ProLiant DL385 G5 achieved 2,102 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 210,330 fully processed order line items per hour or 10,520 SAPS. The ProLiant BL685c G5 achieved 3,524 SAP SD Benchmark users, equivalent to a throughput of 353,300 fully processed order line items per hour or 17,650 SAPS.



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