Benchmarketing again - this time: TPC-H 10 TB

Wow, it´s benchmarketing time at IBM again. IBM Announces DB2 and POWER6 Combo Trounces HP and Sun by 2x and 3x Respectively in New Business Intelligence Benchmark. IBM you are soooo great …. you was able to beat our TPC-H 10 TB by a factor of 3. It´s really an technological archievement in 2007 to beat a TPC-H benchmark result generated on on 29th November 2005 … exactly 2 years ago today. Come on … in IT 2 years are a fscking long time …. Everytime i read a benchmark from IBM, i really looking forward to read their disclosure to see, what you can do in benchmarking, when you have nearly unlimited resources. The configuration of IBM consists out of: 32 p6 p570 servers, each server had 32 GB of memory, resulting in 1 TB memory. Each of the systems had 96 36 Gigabyte 15k harddisks with 4 GB/s FC. A whooping amount of 3072 harddisks. A fully 10 GB enabled network. The SF25K result was done on 1296 disk, with 10k rounds with 2 GB/s. The memory had a size of 288 GB. On a single system with a single operating system image The system used the old UltraSPARC with 1.5 GHz Not that you can´t buy an system from Sun equivalent system from IBM. The venerable SF25k now has up to 1.15 TB per domain. And the M9000 class servers are a completly different story. But,dear IBM,when you want to make a statement of relative performance, the system should be at least somewhat similar. So dear IBM, next time you want to showcase you system, don´t do it against a benchmark 2 years old. What´s the statement of such a press announcement: We are 3 times faster with our top of the line system with a benchmarking configuration than a 2 years old configuration. Big deal, IBM, really big deal …