HP F8 Architecture Technology Brief
HP F8 Architecture
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Conclusion
On December 6, 2002, HP announced a new TPC-C performance mark for 8-processor
systems.
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Running Microsoft® Windows® .NET Datacenter Server and Microsoft SQL Server
2000 Enterprise Edition SP3, the ProLiant DL760 G2 server—HP’s first implementation of the
F8 architecture—performed 115,025 tpmC while supporting 92,000 users.
The F8 chipset delivers bandwidth four to five times greater than that in the Profusion
architecture and is capable of handling the highest demands from IA-32 processors and
high-bandwidth peripherals in 2003 and beyond. Its nonblocking crossbar switch allows
direct point-to-point access to all system resources: processors, memory, and I/O. The
balanced architecture of the F8 chipset delivers superior performance for the most
demanding applications, regardless of whether these applications are processor intensive,
memory intensive, or I/O intensive. Perhaps most importantly, HP has developed the new
capability of Hot-Plug RAID Memory to provide an unprecedented level of fault tolerance,
scalability, and availability while using industry-standard DIMMs.
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04/2003
Document Number TC0304013TB
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The HP competitive performance brief describing this benchmark test is available at
ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/benchmarks/dl760-ibmx440.pdf
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