NEC EXPRESS5800 A1160 SCALABLE HA SERVER ACHIEVES ANOTHER WORLD RECORD PERFORMANCE IN OLTP BENCHMARK

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NEC EXPRESS5800/A1160 SCALABLE HA SERVER ACHIEVES ANOTHER WORLD RECORD PERFORMANCE IN OLTP BENCHMARK Tokyo, April 1, 2009 ― NEC Corporation today announced that its latest enterprise server, the "NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server" has set another world record tpsE 1(transactions/second) score in the industry standard TPC-E performance benchmark. 2This winning score was 1,568.22 tpsE at $1180.01 USD per tpsE . The record-setting 3 ® ®performance was achieved using the NEC Express5800/A1160 with Intel Xeon ® ® ®processor 7400 series powered by Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 together with NEC's innovative Enterprise Modular Storage D3-10 system. The NEC Express5800/A1160 features state of the art NEC server technology with an up to 4 cabinet scalable building block architecture using the high speed HSI technology to ® ®connect the blocks. This combination brings out the full potential of the Intel Xeon processor 7400 series performance scalability. "The world record proves the leadership performance and scalability with mission critical level reliability of the NEC Express5800/A1160 over single OS and database instance," said Takayuki Noguchi, General Manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC Corporation. "The NEC Express5800/A1160 also recently set the world record 4SPECjbb2005 score among all other servers with up to 16 processor sockets in the SPEC 5Java Server benchmark by using multiple Java Virtual Machines . NEC believes ...

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NEC EXPRESS5800/A1160 SCALABLE HA SERVER ACHIEVES ANOTHER

WORLD RECORD PERFORMANCE IN OLTP BENCHMARK

Tokyo, April 1, 2009

―

NEC Corporation today announced that its latest enterprise

server, the "NEC Express5800 Scalable HA Server" has set another world record tpsE

(transactions/second) score in the industry standard TPC-E

1

performance benchmark.

This winning score was 1,568.22 tpsE at $1180.01 USD per tpsE

2

. The record-setting

performance was achieved using the NEC Express5800/A1160

3

with Intel

®

Xeon

®

processor 7400 series powered by Microsoft

®

Windows

®

Server 2008 and SQL Server

®

2008 together with NEC's innovative Enterprise Modular Storage D3-10 system.

The NEC Express5800/A1160 features state of the art NEC server technology with an up

to 4 cabinet scalable building block architecture using the high speed HSI technology to

connect the blocks. This combination brings out the full potential of the Intel

®

Xeon

®

processor 7400 series performance scalability.

"The world record proves the leadership performance and scalability with mission critical

level reliability of the NEC Express5800/A1160 over single OS and database instance,"

said Takayuki Noguchi, General Manager, Enterprise Server Division of NEC

Corporation. "The NEC Express5800/A1160 also recently set the world record

SPECjbb2005

4

score among all other servers with up to 16 processor sockets in the SPEC

Java Server benchmark by using multiple Java Virtual Machines

5

. NEC believes these

results demonstrate that the NEC Express5800/A1160 is a proven and ideal mission

critical server product for both large server consolidation of platforms with multiple

virtual machines and for powerful backend systems such as database servers that use a

single OS/DBMS instance."

NEC is committed to providing mission critical server system solutions with the NEC

Express5800 Scalable HA Server products taking advantage of their advanced

performance and rich reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features.

Performance Results

Throughput

1,568.22 tpsE

Price/Performance $1,180.01 USD per tpsE

Availability Date March 18, 2009

Measured System

Server

NEC Express5800/A1160

Processor

Intel

®

Xeon

®

processor X7460 (2.66GHz/16MB L3 cache)

Number of processors

16

Number of processor cores

64

Number of processor threads 64

System Memory

512GB

Data Storage

NEC Storage D3-10

Operating System

Microsoft

®

Windows Server

®

2008 Datacenter x64 Edition

Database Software

Microsoft

®

SQL Server 2008

®

Enterprise x64 Edition

About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network

and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of a

diversified global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of

computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT

and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC

Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide.

For additional information, please visit the NEC website at:

http://www.nec.com

Information and specifications shown here are subject to change without notice.

NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. Intel and Xeon are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. Microsoft, Windows Server and SQL

Server are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. TPC Benchmark, TPC-E and tpsE are trademarks of the Transaction Processing Performance

Council. SPEC and the benchmark name SPECjbb are trademarks of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. Other names may be trademarks

of their respective owners.

©2009 NEC Corporation. All rights reserved.

Notes

1.

TPC-E is a new-generation industry-standard benchmark that is designed to be broadly representative of modern OLTP systems. The

benchmark simulates a brokerage firm with customers, accounts and holdings, where customers trade stocks and monitor their accounts and

the market.

2.

Source: Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC). The competitive benchmark results stated in this press release reflect results

published on

http://www.tpc.org

as of March 18, 2009. NEC Express5800/A1160, 1568.22 tpsE, USD 1,180.01 /tpsE; Availability Date:

Mar 18, 2009. Availability Dates is that for the North American Market.

3.

Product reference to a model in the North American market. A 4-cabinet configuration was used in this benchmark.

4.

SPECjbb (Java Server Benchmark) developed by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, is a benchmark for evaluating the

performance of server side Java. SPECjbb2005 evaluates the performance of server side Java by emulating a three-tier client/server system

5.

Source: The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation

The competitive benchmark results stated in this press release reflect results published on

www.spec.org

as of February 25, 2009. For the

latest SPECjbb2005 benchmark results, visit

http://www.spec.org/osg/jbb2005

.

NEC Express5800/A1160 (16 chips, 96 cores, 96 threads), 2,150,260 SPECjbb2005 bops, 134,391 SPECjbb2005 bops/JVM

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