Kstudy Improves Server Performance with Intel
Intel® Xeon® processor X5560 and Intel® X25-E Extreme Solid-State Drive improve database server performance by up to 25 times at Kstuy
Challenges
• Maximize performance on a fixed budget. With a KRW 50 million budget for hardware upgrades, Kstudy needed to find the optimal hardware configuration to achieve its target performance.
• Improve database response time. To handle real-time inquiries for study records, Kstudy needed to reduce the execution time from 10 seconds to less than one second. The existing database was stored on a hard disk-based server. To be successful, Kstudy needed to significantly enhance the database server performance to support the large increase in student information queries.
• Perform benchmark testing. Benchmark testing was performed using two different server configurations—one hard drive-based and the other SSD-based.
Solutions
• Solid-state drive solution. Kstudy considered storage area network (SAN)-based, high-speed, external hard disk storage but it discarded the idea because the cost was almost double the project’s budget. Although solid-state drive (SSD) storage cost more than a hard disk-based server, Kstudy chose the approach because even with its unparalleled read/write performance, it still fit within the budget.
• Deploy Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel® SSD. Kstudy chose a 1U-size server equipped with two Intel® Xeon® processors X55601 and eight Intel® X25-E SATA Solid-State Drives, which were partitioned using RAID5 with hot spare method.
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Kstudy Improves Server Performance with Intel
Intel® Xeon® processor X5560 and Intel® X25-E Extreme Solid-State Drive improve database server performance by up to 25 times at Kstuy
Challenges
• Maximize performance on a fixed budget. With a KRW 50 million budget for hardware upgrades, Kstudy needed to find the optimal hardware configuration to achieve its target performance.
• Improve database response time. To handle real-time inquiries for study records, Kstudy needed to reduce the execution time from 10 seconds to less than one second. The existing database was stored on a hard disk-based server. To be successful, Kstudy needed to significantly enhance the database server performance to support the large increase in student information queries.
• Perform benchmark testing. Benchmark testing was performed using two different server configurations—one hard drive-based and the other SSD-based.
Solutions
• Solid-state drive solution. Kstudy considered storage area network (SAN)-based, high-speed, external hard disk storage but it discarded the idea because the cost was almost double the project’s budget. Although solid-state drive (SSD) storage cost more than a hard disk-based server, Kstudy chose the approach because even with its unparalleled read/write performance, it still fit within the budget.
• Deploy Intel® Xeon® processor with Intel® SSD. Kstudy chose a 1U-size server equipped with two Intel® Xeon® processors X55601 and eight Intel® X25-E SATA Solid-State Drives, which were partitioned using RAID5 with hot spare method.
Read the full Kstudy Improves Server Performance with Intel Case Study.
