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Foil 70 Sun Enterprise Systems E6000/10000

From Master Foilset for HPC Achitecture Overview CPS615 Introduction to Computational Science -- Fall Semester 1998. by Geoffrey C. Fox

Descriptions of Sun HPC Systems for Foil 70
These are very successful in commercial server market for database and related applications
E10000 acquired from Cray via SGI is also called Starfire
TPCD Benchmarks 1000Gbyte(Terabyte) November 1998
These measure typical large scale database queries
System Database Power 5 Year Total $/perf
Metric System Cost ($/QphD)
(QppD)
Sun Starfire (SMP) Oracle 27,024.6 $9,660.193 $776
IBM RS/6000 (MPP) DB2 19,137.5 $11,380,178 $797
Sun 4x6000 (Clus) Informix 12,931.9 $11,766,932 $1,353
NCR 5150 (MPP) Teradata 12,149.2 $14,495,886 $2,103



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