Hewlett-Packard says its new series of servers, which are based on its PA-8000 RISC microprocessor, are the fastest on the market.
The top-of-the-range HP 9000 K-Class broke all records for processing speed, the company said.
It clocked in at 12,321 transactions-per-minute (tpmC) and cost US$187 per tpmC, HP said. The result was obtained using Sybase's SQL Server 11.
The HP 9000 D-Class machines are intended as entry-level servers. According to HP, they are nearly as good as its competitors' high-end machines.
Tim Shaughnessy, regional director of product marketing, said: 'Our mid-range systems with four processors are more powerful than some of our competitor's machines using as many as 16 processors.' The HP 9000 K-Class servers are designed primarily for use as application, database, Internet, LAN, Network File System and computatu-intensive servers.
The K-Class systems support symmetric multiprocessing and each one supports up to four PA-8000 processors.