New Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5300 series based servers: Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5300 series based platforms deliver record-breaking performance for server applications beating the previous mark set by Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processors 5100 series. The breakthrough performance, energy efficiency and reliability of the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems make them the best choice for virtualization and business critical applications, enabling IT to become more efficient and responsive.

Configuration Details: The above chart compares published/submitted results to www.tpc.org as of October 8, 2007.

Intel® Xeon® processor based platform details: IBM* eServer* xSeries* 346 server platform with two Intel Xeon processors 3.60GHz, 4GB memory PC-3200 ECC, IBM* DB2* UDB 8.2, SUSE* Linux* Enterprise Server 9. Availability date December 14, 2004. Referenced as published at 1,894.2 QphH@100GB and $14/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=104121401

Dual-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5160 based platform details: Dell* PowerEdge* 2900 server platform with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor 5160 3.00GHz, 48GB memory, Microsoft SQL Server* 2005 Enterprise x64 Edition, Microsoft Windows Server* 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition. Availability date July 17, 2006. Referenced as published at 10,476.7 QphH@100GB and $11.44/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=106071001

IBM* System x* 3650 server platform with two Dual-Core Intel Xeon processors 5160 3.0GHz, 32GB memory PC2-5300 ECC, IBM DB2 UDB 8.2, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP3. Availability date October 6, 2006. Referenced as published at 10,165.4 QphH@300GB and $15.4/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=106100602

Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor X5355 based platform details: HP* ProLiant* ML370 G5 server platform with two Quad Core Intel Xeon processors X5355 2.66GHz, 64GB memory, Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition SP2, Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition SP2. Availability date August 23, 2007. Referenced as published at 17,686.7 QphH@100GB and $7.98/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107042301

Dual-Core AMD* Opteron* processor 2222 based platform details: Sun* Fire* X4200 M2 server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors 2222 3.0GHz, 16GB memory, Sybase* IQ* 12.6 Single Application Server, Solaris* 10. Availability date May 25, 2007. Referenced as published at 8587.1 QphH@100GB and $5.29/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107052501

Sun* Fire* X4100 M2 server platform with two Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors 2222 3.0GHz, 16GB memory, Sybase IQ 12.6 Single Application Server, Solaris 10. Availability date May 25, 2007. Referenced as published at 7641 QphH@100GB and $5.89/QphH. For more information see http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_result_detail.asp?id=107052502

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