Panta has Fastest Terabyte Cluster

An article in The Record notes wryly, this morning, that Panta Systems quietly took top spot, last month, on the Transaction Processing Performance Council's TPC-H (1,000 GB) cluster benchmark. Significantly, the PantaMatrix rack cluster was running Oracle 10g Rel.2 on RedHat Linux -- Oracle has taken pains to adapt for high-performance computing and data warehousing applications on the kind of Dual Opteron setup Panta provides. Panta/RedHat/Oracle beat several IBM DB2 configs (topping out with the eServer xSeries 346 on SUSE Linux running), HP (ProLiant DL585 Cluster 48P, running Oracle and RedHat) and Lenovo. They're the price/performance leader, too -- weighing in at about $25 per QphH (a composite high-end database performance metric developed by TPC). According to Panta's release, the PantaMatrix system racks up four Dual-Core AMD Opteron Model 800 2.2 GHz processors running Linux, Oracle Database 10g Release 2 and Oracle Real Application Clusters with InfiniBand and SilverStorm RDS, and will be commercially available on April 15, 2007.

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